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Hi, Just looking at some old family photos of us fishing by the Swans Neck at Birlingham back in the early 60s when I was about 12. I come from Birmingham and the place my father worked was Mitchells and Butlers brewery who ...Read more

A memory of Birlingham by Michael Lewis

I was born at West Middx. Hosp in 1940. Christened at St. Mary's Church, Osterley. I lived in Syon Park Gardens until I was 34. I remember Thornbury Road and can remember some of ...Read more

A memory of Osterley by Clive Warneford

I went to Worth School for my final yeat at junior school and took my "11+" there; for some reason a number of us moved to Worth from Three Bridges Junior school. I am not sure of the year but think it must have been 1953/4. I do remember the football pitch had quite an uphill slope!

A memory of Worth by David Randall

Hello, my gran, Margaret Kerr lived on Garronhill for years. She sadly passed away in 1982. We holidayed there and she lived in the downstairs maisonette and we were only allowed as far as the bridge on the river Ayr to play. When ...Read more

A memory of Muirkirk by Kathleen Smith

Crossing the bridge from Woking town into the road where the Wheatsheaf was (and parkland, opposite it) always seemed like going to the posher end of town! It was more classy there with bigger houses surrounding the green! Nice memories!

A memory of Woking

When I was young in the 1950s I would spend some weeks of my summer vacation at my grandparents' house at 11 Newington Terrace, Elizabeth and Albert Torr. I remember swimming in the river, we would go to the weir and remove ...Read more

A memory of Craven Arms by Walter Crooks

I used to live in Niton Road, Richmond and used to catch the bus at the top of the Gas Works bridge and get off at the Quadrant, from when I worked 1961-1967 until I married and moved to Kent late 1967. I worked at a ...Read more

A memory of Richmond by Linda (Walden)Bexx Stallon

I was brought in council flats overlooking Wimbledon train depot and Gap Road Cemetery. It was grim but being young we saw the paved area in the "front" of the flats as a football stadium and cricket field in ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon

Does anyone remember the school behind Farrows factory beside the railway on the bridge/hill? I have many memories of walking past it with my mum, Gertrude Nightingale (nee Davis), she would tell me stories of the teachers ...Read more

A memory of Old Fletton by Joy Coster

I was born in 'The Lot' on Cheslyn Hay in 1950. I have been able to trace my lineage back to the 1700's through the Brough, Horton and Cadman families. The Horton family lived in all or some of the cottages in Dundalk ...Read more

A memory of Cheslyn Hay by Peter Cadman