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We lived at 42 Ashley Rd. I went to Heyhouses C of E Primary School where I was taught by Mr Tyas. My father was an RAF officer stationed at RAF Weeton. One of my favourite things to do was to take my model yacht, named Endeavour, down ...Read more

A memory of St Annes in 1955 by Martin Stewart

I lived on the London Road, opposite Nonsuch Park until I was 19 years old, half way between North Cheam and Ewell Village. If you check the map this is Malden Road, not Maldon Road, and this photo is North Cheam not ...Read more

A memory of Cheam by Barbara Lindsay

Have just seen the memory from Joyce Dick. Knew her and her sister when I was about 18 and travelling on the train from Forest Hall to Newcastle to work, down the cinder path and in the village. Remember the Misses Armstrong shop and Ritz cinema, also tennis club and Gordon!

A memory of Forest Hall in 1950 by Jean Sheard

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER A LITTLE ROW CALLED ***BRITAINS,BRITONS/ROW*** ?? MY GRANDPARENTS LIVED THERE, IT WAS A BIT STEEP AND IT LED DOWN TO SOMEWHERE I THINK WAS CALLED TAN YARD BROW ? IT HAD A LITTLE STREAM ON IT ANDI ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1940

Ebenezer Owen Davies was a carpenter in 1914 who took in my father, Thomas William Banks aged 14 from the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol - I am endeavouring to find out more about what happened to my ...Read more

A memory of Bryngwyn in 1910 by Maureen Hawthorn

My Aunt was the Matron in charge of Tickford Abbey and my Uncle was the caretaker in about 1960. I came down from Scotland to spend a long holiday with her when I was 4 or 5. I used to climb up the fire escapes over the ...Read more

A memory of Newport Pagnell by Angus Watson

In 1953 I attended, as a boarder, the 'St Mary of the Angels Choir School' in Addlestone. You walked from the station, turned right up the High St and then left up a hill(?). The ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by peter.beschorner

My father was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford 1949 to 1953.  My brothers, Peter, Michael and myself, Mary, went to the village school.  My older brother Richard went to school in Steeple Aston.  I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Upper Heyford in 1949 by mooremary4

The building with the turret is Acton Lodge where my grandparents Drs John and Mary Leedham-Green lived from 1946 until the late 1980s. The two cottages to the right had been demolished when my mother first visited (in the 1960s - ...Read more

A memory of Southwold in 1946 by Kay Leedham Green

Whilst researching my ancestry I learned that his mother, my Grandmother Beatrice Emily Sharp died in 1969 in Runwell Mental Hospital (as it was called then). I never knew her but know of this place as although ...Read more

A memory of Runwell in 1959