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I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more

A memory of Beckington by patwalker37srpen

I was stationed at RAF Thornaby from March 1954 until early 1957 when I was promoted and posted to RAF North Luffenhan in Rutland in preparation for the Suez campaign, which never came to be. Sadly, that air base ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1954

In about 1961 my father became the manager of Blackbushe Airport. As a result my mother, brother (16) and I (9) moved from our comfortable town house in Cheltenham to a large mobile home attached to, what was then, the ...Read more

A memory of Blackbushe Airport in 1961 by Nikki Mc Allister Freeman

Hi, my name is Margaret Henderson (nee Percy). I lived in Westerham, Kent but worked in the Croydon Model Laundry. I used to travel by bus to Croydon every day from Westerham and then walked down Surrey Street markets to the ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1962 by Margaret Henderson

When we moved from Wales I lived at the fairly extensive Sayes Court Farm caravan park off Liberty Hall Lane, before we settled in Addlestone Park Ave (defined by the statues of knights at the top). At 15, I went ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1954 by Myra Greer Nee Griffiths

The wife Val and I moved to Holme just married in early October 1974, Val had to a job in the office at Northern Dairies and had to work weekends entering the number of milk churns that came from the farms on the lorries. ...Read more

A memory of Holme in 1974 by Harry Nicholson

I attended Fairfields "school", and I use that term loosely, in the early 1960s. I have nothing but bad memories that have haunted me for 50 years! The only pleasurable memory I have of the school is hearing a new singing ...Read more

A memory of Basingstoke in 1964 by Barry Elton

Born in Chelmsford in 1946 I grew up in Gt. Yeldham but after a career in the Fleet Air Arm the flying side of the Royal Navy I settled in Somerset. The small town where I now reside though quite away from the ...Read more

A memory of Great Yeldham by John Waller

My family moved from Moreton to North Weald in 1939, I was 9 year old at the time. My father was called Thomas Yeldham and became the local cobbler, my mother was called Maud. While ...Read more

A memory of North Weald Bassett in 1940 by Rhys Yeldham

I was born on the 23rd March 1947 in my grandparents' home, Hope Cottage to the right of the Sun Inn and next to Lloyds Bank.  Nurse Caines was in attendance.  To the left of the Sun Inn lived Lord King ex chairman of British ...Read more

A memory of Dunsfold in 1949 by Alec Bryan