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I arrived in 1955, I was there for three years. I was not happy there, it was like a jail to me. I do recall the names of Clive Wood and Peter Adams - I do not recall any of the others. ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1956 by John Simmons

When I used to come down to Shelsley I used to stay with my Nan at New Mill Bridge until she sold the shop and moved to Birmingham where she stayed with her eldest daughter May Bennet and her family. Later, she came to stay ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1947 by Antony Cook

My grandparents lived in the Lantern House. Granddad, William Gardner, was a shepherd; Granny Mary Eleanor was a midwife and nurse for the area. She used to ride with the Doctor in a horse and trap to visit their ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1940 by Roger Molesworth

On my first day at Corringham School, my mother walked me, aged five, down the long lane from Aisby with our faithful old dog Floss and a playmate, Monica Bramford, a year or so older than me. During assembly I started to ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1950 by Valerie Walker

'Mum, did you catch fish in the pond at the Bridge' asked my son when Googling for ponds to fish. 0f course we did, with our home made nets of a piece of material attached to a stick, carrying home the ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by Patricia Lucas

I grew up in Hewson street, my parents were Peggy and Ernie Gills and we lived in our grandparents house (Meggie and Bill (Scotty) Jackson). I loved a Sunday when all the family would call to see us - the tiny flat would burst ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1968 by Maureen Gills

I remember moving to Pelton Fell at about the age of eight, number 9 Ferndene Avenue. The house was new and we were the first to occupy it. There was a small alley at the end of the street that led to the railway line. A ...Read more

A memory of Chester-Le-Street in 1954 by John Moffatt

I was born in 1931. In 1944 until 1952 I lived at the Police Station in Gloucester Road where my father was a Police Inspector. As a regular member of the Youth Club, I have great memories of cycle trips into the New ...Read more

A memory of Boscombe in 1945 by Len James

I also went swimming in the ducks pond, played for the res and played bowls and tennis - and we use to go up on the swing and slide and put candle gresse on it to make it go faster. On the way home, we used to have a glass of milk in Seales Dairy on the bottom of the hill.

A memory of Trealaw in 1948 by Michael Spearing

My memory of Forest Hill, London, is Horniman's Museum and Horniman's Park. The museum had a wonderful, huge clock. We lived in Forest Hill from about 1952 or 53 to about 1961, I think. Someone held a fancy dress Coronation party for ...Read more

A memory of London by Marion Del Favero