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I've just received an e-mail from Ray Cooke today 29/2/2016, i have been in touch with him before and we did remember more or less the same things and people in the home, so after his e-mail i decided to have another look at this site, ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Stephen Gilbride

The "Festival of Speed" was founded in 1993 by Lord Marsh, the event displaying and actively demonstrating racing machine from the present day and those stretching back to the beginning of the motor racing era back in ...Read more

A memory of Petworth by ducatee

I grew up in Mitcham in the sixties. Went toSt Mark & Cranmer Green. Loved the library & swimming baths , Ravensbury park, the fair on Mitcham common. Happy days, fond memories. Walking along Figgs Marsh to see my Nana. Saturday morning pictures @ Granada Tooting. Magic!!

A memory of Mitcham by angie

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

I remember my days at St James school they were hard days in the 1965 approx I remember getting the strap by sister Catherine for being late we lived in Harrow Wealdstone and I had to catch 3 different buses to get to burnt oak ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by richardfindlay

Can anybody help? My great grandad Edward Edwards was born in Welshampton in 1858, but as a child, I think, he went to live in Hordley in a home called Marsh Cottage. As a young man he went to live & work in Manchester. I know ...Read more

A memory of Hordley in 1860 by Alan Edwards

I worked as Head Waiter here during Harold Wilsons time as P.M. Richard Marsh and other ministers used to escape here. We had the walker cup here. Our team led by Joe Carr and including a young Peter Oosterhouse. My girfriend was a ...Read more

A memory of Sandwich by Alan Wood

In the early 1950's we lived in "Little Thurrock" as my Mum called it! Actually in Blackshotts Lane at a time before the road was adopted by the council and full of pot holes! What I want to find is exactly where the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by peelerscottage

I was born in Kirton in 1955 , we moved to Nidds lane on the way to Kirton marsh when I was 7 and then on to what I think of as my home village Kirton end around 1967.

A memory of Kirton End

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer