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My husband Vic moved into the brand new council estate in 1968 with his parents and sister - Champney Close. His house backed onto the common and MOD training land. He’d stand up on the embankment watching the trains ...Read more

A memory of Whitehill by D Toovey

As a child of the Fifties I spent many a school holiday and weekend exploring and playing in our local woods with two chums. We knew them separately as Bostall, Abbey and Lesnes woods, before they were known collectively as Lesnes ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Bernard Schofield

My mother and her family are from Stiffkey. I was christened in the Stiffkey church in September of 1965. My grandparents lived at Camping Hill and I was always visiting them. I have lovely memories of ...Read more

A memory of Stiffkey in 1965 by Sarah Brooks

Jacqueline Jackson, if you read this email me please waxrose@me.com  Would your great grandfather be a Harry Hann? He was the owner of Dorset Dairies next to my birthplace in Factory Road, Eastleigh. I went to school in ...Read more

A memory of Bishopstoke by John Scott

My father bought a horse and gypsy caravan in the summer of 1946.He borrowed another horse from his brother and was able to take the caravan to Shoebury Hall camp site. He painted 'Happy Days' on the caravan door. We had the ...Read more

A memory of Shoeburyness in 1946

My recollection of  a dance that was arranged in the sports hall made me and another lad George Bishop decide to abstain from the proceedings as I think at the time, in fact I am sure about myself that I was ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1940 by Les May

A wonderful picture of Overstrand High Street from 1965. I have very happy memories from this era in the picture. I would have been 10 years of age. It looks to me like they could be Girl Guides at the ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand in 1965 by Phil Dunning

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

I was born in Ryde in 1938 and when war broke out, my mother and myself moved in with my grandparents, Laurence and Lucy Stroud (nee Meecham) into what is now Wellwood Grange but in those days was just Wellwood. It was the home of ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by John Stroud

During the early years of the Second World War my father was posted to the Royal Artillery camp in Almondbury and when we were bombed in our home in Hull he found a small house for my mother, sisiter and I ...Read more

A memory of Kirkheaton in 1940 by Raymond Taylor