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This was Clacton`s `pride of the fleet` - I worked there as a entertainer on many occasions. I remember Derek Howes at the mighty theatre organ in the lounge/ballroom. The MU (Musicians Union) used to have their annual ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1982 by Allen Warrender

My Dad, Dennis (Den) Smith lived at 69 St. Andrews Avenue with his widowed mother Iris and his younger sister Mary. During WWII the area suffered bomb damage and dad and his sister were evacuated ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1943 by Debra Budge

My mother, Evelyn (Evie) Smith and my sister Susan(14) and I ( Polly aged 9) visited for about a month with my Auntie Vi in Sutton Mandeville on our way back to the USA after living in Egypt for a year. Auntie Vi had a ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Mandeville in 1952 by Polly Harris

Hi my name is Maria Brown (maiden name Zalmen). I lived in Kingskerswell up until 1967 when I was seven. We then moved to Australia. I have never forgotten this lovely place and in 2005 I decided to come back and relive my ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1967 by Maria Brown

I was put on the cradle roll at about 6 months and attended every sunday school anniversary from the age of 3 - 16 !!! Always had 2 new dresses fro the anniversary.. and a perm!! I had forgotten about Mr Chapman - thank you ...Read more

A memory of Melton Mowbray by Denise Meadwell

After the blitz in London, my mum rang her uncle in Newton Stewart. As a result of that call, we spent several months living in Newton Stewart. The uncle owned the 'K' shoe shop in (I think) Victoria Road. His ...Read more

A memory of Penninghame Ho in 1940 by Mike Stanbridge

I was born at 54 Herbert Road on January 21st 1940 a war-time baby although I remember nothing of the bombing raids that wrecked a number of the houses in the lower part of the road where the bus garage and the railway line ...Read more

A memory of Small Heath by Brian Buck

I also have vivid memories of tolworth as I lived over the shops, waters the green grocers near the wimpy bar As a very young person I remember going to the nursery on the corner of fairmead. I remember playing in the fields ...Read more

A memory of Tolworth by Teresa Hawken

My name is Arhur Brown and I moved to Potters Bar from Tottenham when i was about eight years old along with Mum Doris Dad Arthur and sisters Sylvia and Jeanette and two years later my brother Stephen arrived on the ...Read more

A memory of Potters Bar by Arthur David Brown

I used to drink in The Woodman on occasion as I lived on the Clock House Farm Estate between 1957 and 1962 when I was married just across the road in St Peters.Question,what happened to the board with the pilots names on it ...Read more

A memory of Woodmansterne by Tony Arkell