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I was born in Shirley Gardens in 1935, right opposite Barking Park where I spent most of my childhood at Barking open air lido. What a magnificent place that was! My father was a policeman in Barking so we always ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Shirley Bates

My memory of Blackwater started when I was 14, for those of you who don't know what the Old Manor was, it was a transport cafe, which stood on what is now a supermarket site, on the right, at the junction with Rosemary Lane. In ...Read more

A memory of Blackwater in 1960 by Graham Davis

My father worked for BP Llandarcy from the 1960s. I was born in 1971 and some of my earliest memories are the smell of my dad coming home from Llandarcy. He worked on a machine called the catreformer. He rescued my first cat Sooty from ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1974

I lived on Wedds Farm from around 1948 to 1963. My father, George Couzens, a wartime Battle of Britain fighter pilot, was manager of the farm which was owned by Mr A. Howeson. They had met in the RAF during the war. I believe ...Read more

A memory of Ticehurst in 1957 by John Couzens

I was at Brownrigg from 1963 to 1966, I was in Pennine dorm, Lorna Herron. I remember Bent Toe, he had to be put down at the school, a girl called Diane was really upset about that. I remember gathering bracken on the fells for the ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1965 by Lorna Gowland

I also remember my first day at Ynysboeth Infants school, and unceremoniously being dragged there by my mother for the first time, because I didn't want to go to school. However, as I was happily greeted by the teacher on entering ...Read more

A memory of Ynysboeth in 1940 by Royden Jones

I lived in old Southall (Norwood Road - Norwood Green end) during the 1960s to the 1990s and have seen great changes. I went to school at Clifton Road, and the school had a great Headmaster, Mr Hancock, for a while. One ...Read more

A memory of Southall

Now living in Australia - Arriving back to visit relatives, a previous life time of my walk about ways seems so dream-like. Living at The Greig Farm above the Wier Farm (The Wier which had been in my family forever) was the best ...Read more

A memory of Ewyas Harold in 1965 by Sally Bell

I worked as a nurse at the hospital from 1955 to 1956 and went back for the first time in June of this year. It was really nostalgic to be there again, even though the hospital has long gone the Botanic Gardens are ...Read more

A memory of Ventnor in 1956 by Marjorie O'sullivan,Nee Brown

I remember well my days at Old Hartley School, it was a tough little school as I remember. The headmistress was very strict and the teachers were none too slow to administer the cane. But it holds the best memories of my ...Read more

A memory of Hartley in 1961 by Graham Barnett