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(ex Auton). So many memories of my years at the Convent. I learnt to ride here, firstly at the old stables and then a new one was built at the end of the long drive-way behind, run by Miss Turnbull. Played tennis everyday, ...Read more

A memory of Effingham in 1966 by Amanda Gardiol

My mother wrote her childhood memories about 10 years before she died in 1992. She was sent to Friars Children's Home for the sole purpose of working when she was 14 in about 1926. I think that her ...Read more

A memory of Bocking in 1920 by Mary Hill

During the bitter winter of 1965, when the railway age of steam was fast diminishing, I worked as a British Transport Commission Police Officer (seconded from the Newcastle Central Railway ...Read more

A memory of Windy Nook in 1965 by David Armstrong

I was born and lived in Chequers Lane Walton in 40s. Our house which was No 74 was the Police House and I used to cycle to St Hildas School at Tadworth, run by Miss Adams who lived in house opposite Chappell's ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1950 by Alan Cooper

I attended Ladywell Primary School from 1950 to around 1954. In those days the school was comprised of two prefab buildings running parallel with each other and separated by a cinder-covered playground. One morning, ...Read more

A memory of Motherwell in 1950 by John Cunningham

My brother and I were sent to Reedham School in 1954. We were there for two years, probably the worst two years of my life, despite being put into care at the age of five and continuing until sixteen. I was known as Mathews 2 or RS ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1954 by Ashley Mathews

For a few years my grandfather worked here as an instructor in woodwork.My daughters father our law was also there as an instructor. For many years in the 60s I remember it being run for the deaf. As to the work house I and all ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1989 by Bill Wright

I was born in Dewsbury in 1965 and moved to Chickenley when i was 1 and a half,i no longer live there,we moved out in 1977 to the West Country,it was great growing up in Chickenley.I remember as kids playing on the ...Read more

A memory of Chickenley in 1973 by John Qureshi

Living in Hillingdon we used to catch the 207 trolley bus into Uxbridge for shopping and entertainment and particularly on Saturdays for Burton's dancing. We would hang around the underground station always fearful of ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1959 by Garth Randall

My memories of Grays go back to the 1940's and 1950's the war years and before the London over-spill estates Of Belhurst Park and Basildon arrived. I was born and lived at 106 Bridge Road with my parents ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1940 by Albert Wm Gosnall