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Have just stumbled on this site and the entries about Worksop and Carlton have stirred a few memories. I lived in Worksop from 1956 to 1979. Shops: MacFisheries, an old fashioned W H Smith. Machin's hardware, the brilliant C V ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1970 by Hugh Valentine

I remember Headley Down so very well in the war days, Wilsons shop and post office, Weavers bakery, the barber, Miss Farrant her cart and donkey, houses like Stagsdene long gone. Hardly a house on the Down when I was a ...Read more

A memory of Headley Down by kennys1933

as the oldest member of the garvie clan .I thought I would leave my memories of the family on the Internet so that our grandchildren could always look back and see where our past started. the family consisted of Mary ,Theresa,Charles ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix by Matt Sloan

I was born 291 Friern Rd prefab December 1952 went to Goodrich infants & Heber rd school. Remember the parade of shops junction of Barry rd & Lordship Lane, Bert the barber, Val’s the greengrocer & next door grocer shop, ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich by irenecarnold

I was born in1950 we lived above the family chip shop which also had a sit in area this is now where the betting shop is next was mcgills sweet shop then McCormack the newsagents which was a wooden hut it burnt down I thing it ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix in 1955 by Matt Sloan

Where the Boston Road divides into the Lower Boston Road, there were - The Queen Victoria Pub. Opposite was University Motors, which was BMC, and later Leyland cars. There was a line of shops, these being, Harris-Newspapers, ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell in 1960 by Nick Beard

My earliest memories are during the war of hiding down the Andersen garden shelters in King Edwards Saturday Road and St Erkenwald Road with my parents and brothers listening to the shrapnel pinging around us as the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by cliffordsmith961

My name is Alan Naber and in 1949 I was five years old and started my school life at Red Lion Road school. This is an account of how I saw life at that time with a few additions from other students I am still in ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by oldcyclist

Such a lovely Village back in them ol' days !! I was born in Careys Wood in 61. Lavish memories of playing in Moodys Farm field (stories of Elephants being buried there ??) Wonderful Mr. Sheppard in his shop dishing out ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield

'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds