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My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by Arthur David Brown

Walking along Sycamore Street, Persondy, even now in my mind, I passed, the Roberts' house next door, the Walkers, the Ryalls, can't remember the next house but she was German and very fiery, then the ...Read more

A memory of Abercarn

I lived in Appledore Avenue, for the first 17 years of my life.(1956 - 1973) Happy memories. My parents were married at St Paulinus Church in 1954. I went to Barnehurst Primary and Junior School. the headmistresses were ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst by Steve Tull

I was born at Broadhill Maternity Home in 1949. It was sold in the autumn of 1946 and in 1947/48 it was known as Green Hedges. The new owners had previously ...Read more

A memory of Broadhill by Jane Webber

I was raised in Kenton from 1954 until I left home in 1971. My visits to Kenton up until 2013 were to visit my elderly Dad, who still resided in Woodcock Hill until his death. The changes over the years have been enormous. Mum and ...Read more

A memory of Kenton

I was born in 1948 and my Grandma lived at Brook Bridge House in Kilby. I can remember hating living in Industrial Huddersfield but only because I could not wait to get to Kilby for my weeks holiday in the summer. There was a farm in ...Read more

A memory of Kilby by puppyperson

I was one of a family of Seven children(two girls and five boys) born to Louise and George Tawn. We first lived at Pinkney park where my father was employed as a farm bailif. Due to his affair with the farmers wife we were ...Read more

A memory of Malmesbury by mahoneyrosie21

I was born and bred in Chatham until moving away in September 1966,following my late Father's posting to to a MoD London job. My siblings were all born and bred in Chatham, with nearly all of us growing up there until we ...Read more

A memory of Chatham by rbrattle

i was bought up in a thatched cottage in "Anton lane" behind whats now called the Museum. my memories have never faded of the wonderful childhood i had. my best friend was James Maccallum the doctors son . we were inseparable ...Read more

A memory of Enham Alamein by Terry Cleverley

I remember this place during WW2. It was all closed up but we used to find a way in and were sometimes chased off. We called it the "White Cafe". All that was in the 1940s when I was only a young child. I went back in the ...Read more

A memory of Kinmel Bay by ann.mervyn