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My first home was Hope Cottage next to the Sun Inn, Dunsfold. I am pretty sure that the cottage was owned by Lloyds Bank and my parents rented it from them. My grandparents, Stan and Madge Blay, also lived in ...Read more

A memory of Dunsfold in 1969 by Sharon Lloyd Blay

I was four years old when I moved to Gilfach Goch with my sister Pauline and my dad Samual James Carson and my mam Sybil (Mills), she was from Gilfach and so was most of her family. We lived with my Gransher, Mark ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch by Joyce Williams

I lived in Lime Tree Road and I was called Rita Simmonds at that time. My gran and granddad lived in Lampton Road, at the Great West Road End. They lived in a terrace of cottages next to a large house which I think ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Rita Spear

Hi Who remembers the Post House coffee shop in Post House Wynd? The first time I went there I thought "this is it - I've made it!!". It was a great meeting place and everyone had such a good laugh. Brings back very ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1967 by Glynis Hogben

As a young student nurse at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington W2 - I recall fond memories of Joyce Grove where I undertook my initial six week training period, prior to joining the staff at St Mary's ...Read more

A memory of Nettlebed in 1950 by Margaret Mosley

The little child in the photograph is me, taken outside my grandfather's house in Cullipool, Luing on the Isle of Luing. My grandfather was Duncan McEachnie, my grandmother was known on the island as Bonnie Mary. I would ...Read more

A memory of Luing in 1957 by Maureen Mcfarlane

My grandparents lived at "The Elms" a house built by my great grandfather who also build Fynnongroew Church - My grand mother Emily can be seen as a small girl in a Postcard of Fynnongroew out side "The Laurels" where ...Read more

A memory of Tanlan in 1958 by Gareth Jones

Two balls. Tennis balls in stockings. Playing on Bill Blackman's coal lorry and getting filthy. Runouts. Playing in the flats on the corner of Holyport Roard with my mates. The corner shop made the best ice lollies ever. Walking by the ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1970 by Debbie Coles

I've put 1980s down, but my memories of Rushden go back to the 1970s, my grandad ran the Works Dept in Newton Road for years and lived in the tied house attached to the Fire Station. I spent the whole of my summer holidays there in ...Read more

A memory of Rushden in 1982 by Anne Marie O'reilly

I remember playing in the park as a child. There were two sides to the park, Easthill House stood in the posh part of park. I remember beautiful trees and a palm tree which I thought was exotic. We used to sit on a tree stump ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1968 by Stacey Maxted