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When I was a child in the 1950s and 1960s we went to chapel every year and stayed in a bungalow named FAIRVIEW which is on the corner of Sunningdale Drive and South Road. Across the road lived an AA man ...Read more

A memory of Chapel St Leonards in 1959

I lived in Midhurst Hill, off Townley Road, a couple of years after this photo was taken, quite scarey to see how old fashioned it looks now. I used to buy my catapault elastic in Jennings. I went to Upton Road ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by Richard Blowers

Burrow Hill School is now derelict. It closed in 1998 and I have just walked past the boarded-up site this afternoon. Although I have lived in Frimley Green since 1993 and seen one of its main buildings from within a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by John Parker

I was 1 of 9 children, we were placed at 83 Hunters Hill. I went to Garlands Schhool. My friends were Sharon Mallem, Jackie Baily, Jackie Bruce, Connie Sharky. I remember others ie the Farmers, Beals, Kemps, Longs,and ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1972 by Debbie Walker

Like the other contributer, in about 1967 I too went to Princes Road County Primary, Mr Carr was the Headmaster and he caned many a boy! The playground opened out into Knighton Woods and we played "war", it ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Jonathan Cox

It was 1947, when my parents were told they would be able to move from their one room in a house to a Prefab in Harold Hill. My mother was pregnant. You didn't start school until you were 5. The closest ...Read more

A memory of Noak Hill by hilsidkay

Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely ...Read more

A memory of Brambletye House in 1967

This is a part of Laindon we must preserve, there's not many left, but it should be safe on top of the hill. Many happy days were spent in the fields behind, flying kites and playing football, when I was a child and with my grandchildren in ...Read more

A memory of Laindon in 1983

I remember the millpool being used as a boating lake and being able to hire rowing boats, canadian style canoes and sailing dinghys. Over the years the council reclaimed more and more of the millpool for use as a carpark and now there ...Read more

A memory of Looe in 1970 by Colin Davies

I attended this school in 1978 to 1982 later going onto Dene House Comprehensive School. I loved this school as it has such character and at the time seemed massive however looking at the very few and I mean very limited ...Read more

A memory of Horden by davidcargill1971