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I remember queuing outside the pool for what felt like hours on a hot summer's day. The price to get in went as low as 1d -  or am I mistaken? We used to climb up a drainpipe at the back of the pool to get in, not to save ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1953 by Allan Gilbert

My name is Ann Jones. I live in the USA I was formerly Ann Groom, my dad Sydney Groom and mother Mildred kept The Snoring Bell. I remember the Whiteheads down the street on the farm, and going to Little Snoring School - my teachers ...Read more

A memory of Little Snoring in 1960 by Ann Jones

Sometime around 1956, for about two years, two of us shared a cottage in Iford village (one of the first two as you came off the main road from Lewes). We worked for Mr Robinson milking his Guernsey herd and doing ...Read more

A memory of Iford in 1956 by Kay Mullin

This is looking down Station Road, the station is at the bottom of the hill. To the right centre can be seen the smoke and steam of a train rising above the trees. I remember walking up here as a boy when it was still unmade. The ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1970 by Ian Lipscomb

I was born at my Grandmother's home at No: 50 Hand Avenue on the Braunstone Estate. When I was about 3 we moved from Grandma's to our own home at No: 9 Wellinger Way. I went to Queensmead ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town by Jaycie Perkins

Balloon Woods. Most people says it was a hell hole. Yes some parts of it was. But to a child it was good. There were more quite a few blocks. Some had four floors, these were called Tansley Walk, Bealey Walk, Hartington ...Read more

A memory of Wollaton in 1971 by Jean Smith

I remember Clifton in a different light. We lived at 17 Pastures Avenue during 1966/7, my brother or one of them, he's the youngest, was born there. I met my half sisters and brothers there. I have always liked ...Read more

A memory of Newark-on-Trent in 1967 by Jean Smith

while staying at the hotel choppington, i had the pleasure of dining with a good friend of mine; a mr. chadwick chopperman of choppington downs, sw. choppington. mr. chopperman and i dined on pork choppingtons that evening. the ...Read more

A memory of Choppington by Richard Hell

Camberley, where it all began. Where I lived half of my life so far. In your head you never leave the place you were born and raised. On a wet un-comforting day I found myself revisiting the town of my past. I was cast into ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1988 by André Goddard

My mum and dad owned the Lonsdale off-licence during the 1960s and 1970s. I went to Brampton Manor, a few teachers stick in my memory but Dr Groom has to be the world's best physics teacher. I remember bunking off, walking over the dumps ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Brett Jolly