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My husband Bill and I married in Brantingham Church on a cold day in January 1959, the snow lay thickly on the ground. We moved into Holderness Cottage, adjoining Holderness House, the home of Mrs Dunn, an elderly lady ...Read more

A memory of South Cave in 1959 by Jean Carr

Hi, I live in Thorne now. I was wondering if anybody knows anything about G Webster & Son? It was a drapers and furnishers, and was located on Finkle Street, phone number was 812 107. I found an old business card today and would like ...Read more

A memory of Thorne

My late mother ( nee ) Constance Mary Mould hailed from Castleton and nearby Westerdale. Her parents were John ( k/as Jack ) Mould and Mary (k/as May) Mould who also lived in High Street,  Castleton, next door to ...Read more

A memory of Castleton by Robin Aldrich

The building on the left with the white wooden fence looks like the old Haslemere Police Station in the Petworth Road. (Note from The Frith Memories Archivist - This road was called East Street at the time this photograph was taken; we believe that the name was later changed to Petworth Road.)

A memory of Haslemere in 2007 by A Barbar

I spent the first 3 years of my life in a nissan hut situated on the common. In 1953 after the flood we moved to Twyford Avenue where my brother now lives having purchased the house. I was married in St Nicholas church ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering in 1960 by Maureen Farrell

Hi there Does anyone remember the grocer shop in King Street, Connie Kettle's, also the old pit just behind and to the left of the shop, and the old cottages where if you walked past these you would come out near the top ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1955 by Peter Michael Goddard

We moved to Hesters Way in 1954 as my father was transfered to work at Oakley. I was about 7 years old and we moved into no 19 Hesters Way Road. There were fields at the rear of the house and the first part ...Read more

A memory of Cheltenham in 1954 by Roger Clarke

I spent a few weeks at the now long gone St Mary's Children's Convalescent Home overlooking the sea in Broadstairs, Kent. In the summer of 1956, when I was nine years old and my name was David Welsh, I ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1956 by David Rayner

My parents owned the Horseshoe Cafe, 146 Barking Road, and we lived in the apartment above. Next door on the corner was a bakery and next door on the other side was a 'removal' company. I also ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1954 by Helga Hurban

This picture must have been taken when the former 'Peculiar People' chapel visible on the right of the photograph (one of the few buildings then on that side) was built. It has just celebrated its centenary. Now 'Cressing ...Read more

A memory of Cressing by Mark Pierson