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I am trying to trace my family's history and wondered if anyone can help. My Grandfather, Sidney George Moon lived at 114 Lewis Street according to the 1911 census. He worked down the Crumlin pit. He went on to father 12 ...Read more

A memory of Crumlin by Joy Johnson

I was born in Biggleswade in 1947 and left for Suffolk in 1957. I remember going to the infants school and then shortmead street. We did maypole dancing and got hit over the knuckles regularly by horrible teachers! Pretty ...Read more

A memory of Biggleswade

Penny son amd parker, coop butchers and grocery, barbers, horlocks funeral, Wardona picture house, news agents, st botolphs school, and church. Springhead Road where my mother worked for Mrs Keen who had a drapers shop in Northfleet.The ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1942

My mother used to take me from Hornchurch on the 66 bus when i was a small child. She always went to Lous' stall opposite the cinema (flea pit as we called it) She knew him well and could rely on him. We would go and see the cattle being ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1947 by Gloria Friend

Wonderful memories of my father who took me shooting for pheasants as a child with our Labrador dog in the then wheatfields of Bluewater. Later when the fields were excavated for chalk we would walk through the chalk pits with the dog and find a wealth of wildlife it was an idyllic childhood.

A memory of Bluewater in 1949 by Freesia Danzey

My paternal great great grandfather came from Bream, Gloucestershire on July 31st 1831. He was the 10th of 14 children and was born at Oakwood Mill. He started work when he was 9 years of age, minding doors at Brunswick Coal Pit, ...Read more

A memory of Bream in 1860 by Mary Rowley

I was born during the Second World War in 1942, the 8th child to my parents at Goose Bridge, Matching Green. My parents were Scottish and people thought they were foreign. My dad worked for Mr Gemmill's farm ...Read more

A memory of Matching Green by Mary Burton

My grandparents and my mother come from Llanbradach Plasturtwyn Terr; I spent every school holiday and Christmas there. I remember my nan sending me to Snook's shop for a couple slices of ham and putting it on the book to pay ...Read more

A memory of Bedwas

I loved my schooling there from 1950 to 55. We had horses (oh, those nighttime rides), outdoor swimming pool (freezing at midnight!), Guy Fawkes night in the Elephant Pit, long walks to Polesden Lacey, hockey games against the nuns ...Read more

A memory of Effingham in 1950 by Susanna Murray Soares

In the 1950s our family company " T. Smart & Sons (Contractors) Ltd " supplied large pit props to A. E. Johnson at Gorsley Wood who had a sawmill there . The timber was cut up into coverboards that were sent on the Kent Coal Fields.

A memory of Gorsley Wood