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As a young boy in mid to late 1940s and early 1950s I used to travel from my home in Wisbech to spend my summer holidays with my grand parents who used to live in Marley Lane. They had a bungalow called Birch Holme that was white in ...Read more

A memory of Battle by toebrown

I was 2½ when my parents Sam and Gwen Barrow moved from Greenwich with myself and my sister (6months) into No1 Tiverton Grove. It was on the coner with Bedale Road and had been my Nan's house. I used to ride my ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by eejayb

I also went to Overbury from Wolsey probably in '55. Hanlon was there ( horrible little man - I remember a mass caning in front of the entire school because a toilet was vandalised and he ...Read more

A memory of New Addington by terryhaynes2002

I lived in Birley street with my parents and brother Colin. I have very happy memories of shaftesbury park school and later on Clapham county grammar school. Many days were spent on Clapham Common and at battersea park, where the ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

The Holmes Family of LADY HALL, Farming and Iron ore on the census it had 6 rooms, They named one Daughter Lady presuming after Lady Hall. Well may add more later Sandra Nee Holmes 5th Generation down the ladder. 1841 Head of the house was Thomas Holmes, wife Sarah .Ref- HO107 Census Millom.

A memory of Lady Hall by sandradavenport64

We were part of the 3rd Cadet Batallion of the East Surrey Regiment. Our base was the wooden huts erected behind Snows cycle shop in East Street after a German bomb obliterated the infants school that was there. The Officer in charge ...Read more

A memory of Epsom by b.waterman

My dad was in the RAF at Calshot and I attended Fawley school, and later Hardley secondary, in 1950-53. I have recently found a photo of myself and two other boys, standing in a pond holding jam jars of (presumably) tadpoles ...Read more

A memory of Fawley by mac.mckie

Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys Remembered Memory is a selective thing, the best is easy, but the mind glosses over the worst. Some things recollected as certainties turn out to be not quite so. These are ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jack Simmons

I am fairly certain that during the war(2nd) 1944/5 this was the house my family stayed in. The first one with the stone and railings as one looks at the photo, the little girl is almost outside.The house without a stone ...Read more

A memory of Letterston by pjcrawford313

Born in 1938, lived in Isleworth, I was constantly monitored for TB at the clinic as my father died of it when I was 12, I remember the shiney chairs, red and turquoise. ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by josephineclarke10