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I remember the coffee smell as one wandered up the high street. Someone on this memory board has asked what was it called. It was called: Coffee Importers, because that was what they did. You could buy beans or have them ground ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Susan Tebby

My father is from Horden, born 1928 November, had two step brothers. Johnson was my fathers name, Hill was his brother's, Singer he was and Naisbett was the other brother's name - all miners. My grandmother was a Johnson, my ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1920 by Dawn Middleton

I was born in Lower Wortley, and until the reservoir was built on the ring road, can remember the ring road floading. I went to Lower Wortley school, then Thornhill which isn't there anymore, my brother and mum still live in ...Read more

A memory of Beeston in 1968 by Debbie Wormald

I was born in Tean and in about 1957, when I was 8 yrs old, I was allowed to travel to Cheadle alone on the PMT service buses. I was 8yrs old. My gran would meet me at the cinema stop on Butlers Hill. She would ...Read more

A memory of Cheadle in 1957 by Janita Plant

I was born in Birmingham in 1943. My parents and my aunt and uncle (Les and Beat Bradshaw) purchased The Mentone in The Parks around 1949. A double decker bus ran over my leg directly outside Minehead ...Read more

A memory of Minehead in 1949 by Kevin Phillips

Moved from the East End to Wigton Road in 1951. First memories; going to Romford market seeing the livestock by Laurie Hall. Playing in the woods behind Quarles, all types of street games. My best was book and skate ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by Tom Watson

Although I have lived most of my adult life in Australia, I still have happy memories of life as a kid in my home town of Hucknall during the 50's and 60's, even though times weren't easy. I covered many miles on my trusty ...Read more

A memory of Hucknall in 1964 by Tony Houlston

The picture of Windsor Drive is so evocative for me. I spent the first 5 years of my life living with my parents in my grandmother's council house in Sandpit Road on the Downham Estate at the bottom of ...Read more

A memory of Chelsfield in 1953 by Kevin Barham

My parents (Harold and Peggy Warden) bought Hillside (which was the miller's house, the mill fell down after the First World War) and moved my sister (Rosemary) and I from Surrey in April 1951, I was then 7 years old. Later that ...Read more

A memory of Standon in 1951 by Richard Warden

I used regularly to walk up Mottingham Lane to visit my great aunt and her family who lived on the Horn Park Estate in and around Alnwick Road. Apparently, I threw a toy from my pram near the farm which my parents were never able to ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham by Margaret Handscombe