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Just below the bridge on the ovingham side most of the lads learned to swim and through stones at what we thought was rats now I know they were water voles a much endangered species .Waste from Corbridge and other places flowed ...Read more

A memory of Prudhoe by wgibson67

I am wondering if anyone remembers my grandfather Dr. Kenneth (Ken) Simon. He had a practice in Maidenhead in a house called Marlborough along the river next to the sounding bridge but the entrance to his surgery was at the ...Read more

A memory of Maidenhead by uktwousa

This photograph actually shows Adele Avenue off to the left and the road going down the Beehive is Harmer Green Lane. Just before the Beehive there is a road off to the right which goes under the railway bridge and ...Read more

A memory of Digswell by roy.pearman

I lived at 23 Swinburn terrace bells close and went to Sugley Parish church. Lemington infants then the big school. I left there when I was 15 and did not make it to Claremont. I was born at Dilston Hall hospital ...Read more

A memory of Lemington by denyg21.denise

We were part of the 3rd Cadet Batallion of the East Surrey Regiment. Our base was the wooden huts erected behind Snows cycle shop in East Street after a German bomb obliterated the infants school that was there. The Officer in charge ...Read more

A memory of Epsom by b.waterman

I went to Old Basing school slightly later, in 1962,and I remember school dinners as being dreadful, the dinner ladies were so strict that you did not dare not to eat your meal, they even reported to my ...Read more

A memory of Old Basing by qualityincornwall

I was born in Grove Avenue in 1934. Was not evacuated in the war .attended St Marys Church as a choir boy, went to St Marys. Infant school , then on to Orleans. Sec Leaving in 1949., after winning the Twickenham Schools Cricket ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by aataylor34

We moved to Lawrence Road in South Ealing around 1966. My brothers and I went to Little Ealing Primary School (1969- 1977) followed by two more cousins. Mrs Lodge was my first teacher and I thought she was the most fabulous lady ever. I ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by fawkes_linda

My husband lived at the above address from about 1938 until 1955. I would dearly love to find a photo of his house. He lived opposite the Dominion Cinema and remembers that during the war the lights went out and how excited he ...Read more

A memory of Harrow by Anita Bailey

heads the label in a dictionary of music that I received as a prize in Upper IA. No date. It must have been 1955. My name was/is Margaret Morley. I joined the school on my return from Malaya in 1951, followed ...Read more

A memory of Laleham