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By kind permission of the Lord Ashcombe, the Holy Trinity Junior Boys Club, Wimbledon, camped for four weeks every year on Ranmore Common. Most of us were choirboys, so we augmented St Barnabas's choir for their services twice ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1930 by L. Malcolm Cloutt

I clearly remember the school at Whelpley Hill and detouring on my way there to see an aircraft straddling the roar, fuel dripping from its engines and the flight crew washing their hands in the dripping petrol. ...Read more

A memory of Whelpley Hill in 1951 by Harold Brown

I was born in St Catherine's Hospital during 1943 and spent the next 22 years living right across the street from it until I emigrated to Canada in 1965. I can remember my mother, my sister and I walking along Derby ...Read more

A memory of Tranmere in 1950 by Angela Rickett (Nee Kavanagh)

Dunno if this is the same place, we called it Harmans Water, on the Ascot/Bracknell road. My Uncle Albert had a little demolition firm, my brother was the driver, they were the only regulars, I as a kid worked at weekends and ...Read more

A memory of Harmans Water in 1958 by Dave Hill

These houses are in St. Nicholas Lane. I lived in the house on the left of the photo. It was named Neasden. We lived there until 1950 when we moved to London. The hill was a very good winter sports attraction with some very fast toboggan runs.

A memory of Laindon by Roger Quinn

It was 1958 and I had just left school at Walbottle Secondary. Me and my best pal Wes Coulthard (who I'm sad to say has since passed away) went on our first holiday together before starting down the Pit. We went with his parents Jimmy ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows

Mum said she was 2 weeks overdue and it was the worst winter, and all she could think of was to go for a walk up the steps of the Lickey Hills hoping that would bring me into the world! Don't blame me for wanting to keep ...Read more

A memory of Bournbrook in 1963 by Julie Mc Neill

We are in year 1955 and I'm sure you older ones from around here will remember what Duffers were, this was a task game where all the gang joined in. We had different modes which would take our fancy, pole vaulting was where we would cut a ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1955 by Jimmy Burrows

The Grange at Bitton was the home of the Seymour family, one member of which was Jane, the third wife of King Henry VIII. The village is dominated by its open countryside setting. This relationship arises ...Read more

A memory of Bitton by Paul Townsend

Queen Elizabeth I granted housewives the right to dry their washing on Bristol's Brandon Hill. Bristol's most prominent land mark, the Cabot Tower, was 100 years old in 1998. But the official opening was marked by a ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend