Search Results

I was born in Redhill but lived for my fist 12 years at 16 Dunraven Avenue, my father, William (Bill) Park worked at the Monotype most of his working life, he was in the sand-blasting area. I went to Salfords school ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1949 by Peter Park

I was born in Harthill in 1940, moved to Nottingham in 1954 and then to Canada in 1974. I still have relatives in Harthill and always visit when I am in England. The memory that sticks in my mind is sledding down a hill, through a farm ...Read more

A memory of Harthill in 1940 by Albert Walker

I was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1950, and lived on Hough Hill for the next 21 years. Swannington back then was an agricultural village, some people worked out of the village in factories or construction, ...Read more

A memory of Swannington in 1955 by Robert Lakin

I grew up in Monkleigh and went to school there in our one room school. My teacher was Mrs Hill. Punishment was called "THIMBLE PIE" a rap on the head with a thimble on her finger. I apprenticed with a Mr BALE in the ...Read more

A memory of Monkleigh in 1940 by Howard Daniel

Hi Ann..amazing how the memories of those years remain with us after so many years. Like you I went to St Georges School. I was there till 1952 and remember taking my 11 Plus Exam on the day the King died. Exam was in the ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Alfred Winkworth

My Memories of Sunninghill are somewhat obscure and and are based on information gathered over the past 70 years. I was Born at 8, The Terrace, Sunning Hill and spent my first 4 years living there. My mother married ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill in 1941 by Colin Lennox

Probably around 1964 for about three years I worked at Jennetts Restaurant at the Dorking crossroads, as a waiter, for Mr Lesley Hargreaves and his poodle, Trudy. In those days we did flambe cooking at the tables. The ...Read more

A memory of Tadworth in 1964 by Terry Meades

I'm fairly confident that the people below occupied the properties at that time; No 1 - The Vicar of St Marys' Magdelain in Bear Street, he lived on his own, a short, dark and mysterious man with bushy eyebrows. No 2 - ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1963 by Steve Evans

I don't particularly have a memory as such. My great grandfather William Edward Orpin, lived at Hill Barn, Fawkham Village, Kent, Rural District of Dartford, Ecclesiastical Parish of St. ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1900

May 3rd 2012, I was born at number 3 Collyhurst Buildings, Manchester, England. The fourth daughter of Mary (Cissy) McCarley, and her husband, Joe. My sisters were Mary, Winifred, Margaret, and Vera. There was a son, ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1930 by Frances Cross Nee Mc Carley