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We used to live at 96, Church Road where I lived as a youngster between 1956 and circa 1962 when our family moved to a new house in New Haw. I was 11 years old when we moved there from Rodborough Hill near Milford. The canal was ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by Derek Russel

Born in 1945 in Dinsdale Ave, Kings Estate, over the field from the pit. My aunts and cousins lived round the doors, it was a very safe and happy environment. The youngest of four, the world was our oyster. We roamed the fields and ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1950 by June Wilkinson Macarthur

I first went to Zeals at the age of about 4 months, my grandparents lived in the row of cottages on Tulse hill. My grandparents where Mr and Mrs Hicks, with them lived my aunt who still lives there to-day, Phillys ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1952 by Ronald Taylor

I used to spend my summer holidays at my grandmother's house in Middle Street and remember spending many hours in the Olympia amusement arcade at the top of the road that led into the old town. There was a juke box which ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by David Gerrard

Harlow as we know it today was the first London-area ‘New Town’ to result from the Town and Country Planning Act of 1946, a long-term plan to build a number of new towns around London to ease the housing crisis after the Second World War, ...Read more

A memory of Harlow in 1960 by Julia Skinner

Basildon has an interesting history, for it was ‘reinvented’ not once, but twice. At the start of the 19th century Basildon was a small rural parish, bounded on the west by Laindon, Dunton, Langdon Hills and Lee ...Read more

A memory of Basildon in 1958 by Julia Skinner

I was born at 7 Osborne Street, 1948 and grew up there. I got married at 21 and moved to Tarvin Drive for several years before moving on to Hull and then Little Brington, Northamptonshire where I still am. I remember all ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury by Alan Atkinson

My great uncle and aunt lived at Long Park when the station was known as Sidmouth Junction. My brother spent many holidays there, in particular during the war. Uncle Frank bred pigs as well as gereral farming. I used ...Read more

A memory of Feniton by Jane Sloan

Yes, I remember those things mentioned by Tony Barker. We lived at 38 Wallingford Road from 1939 to 1943, went to the same school and the same church so probably knew each other. I can remember playing in ...Read more

A memory of Handforth in 1940 by Nancy Young

I moved to Dorchester in 1949 with my parents and lived at 2 Castle Row, North Square. I have nothing but fond memories of growing up in Dorchester and even though I haven't been back since the early 60's and have ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester by David Bawden