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Hi Everyone what a lovely photo of the reservoir. My family lived at the reservoir for many years. My father and his father were born there with his sisters. He was Henry Marshall born 1923. He was the 3rd Henry ...Read more

A memory of Boosbeck by David Marshall

I remember Temple school. The Knights Templar play. Christmas plays. The youth club on Friday evenings. Friday I'm in love. I was. The glen. Scottish country dancing. The human skull in Anna's cellar. Diving ...Read more

A memory of Temple by Louise Mercer

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

We lived at Stone Cottage, and then Stonehurst on the road between Five Ashes and Jarvis Brook for 7 years whilst I was a child. Wonderful freedom absorbing the Wealden countryside. We used the grocers shop, run by Mr ...Read more

A memory of Five Ashes in 1959 by Barbara Bryant

To anyone local to Dorchester this was a familiar scene day in and day out for almost 50 years. My grandfather Ben Courtney started selling 'fruit and veg' in 1947 from hand-carts on the roadside. His son Doug started in 1950 ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1955 by Trevor Courtney

In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Bishops by Marilyn Jesse

I arrived in Wallingford as a 10 year old boy with my sister and mother on a cold winter February night. We had been bombed out from our house in Dagenham just a few days before and my brother, who was ...Read more

A memory of Wallingford in 1943 by Leslie Nash

I was a pupil at Easter Compton Infants School and remember Mrs Hunt Well . I also remember coke stoves used in winter and Mrs Withers the dinner lady. Meals were cooked elsewhere and brought to the School in hot boxes and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Easter Compton by bamfiel.sb

I think it must have been 1952 or 3 when I went to live on Kingwood Common with my parents in the old nissen huts left by the German POWs, and afterwards by Polish refugees. We knew the place as Kingdom Camp, or just ...Read more

A memory of Kingwood Common by richardhayes516

I was a pupil at Fairdene School from 1960-1965. I had lived in New York until I was 6, so being a girl with a Yankee accent in a school for young ladies was quite a challenge! The two female headmistresses, Miss Turner and Miss ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead by familylock