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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s my father, Patrick Scullion, known to many of his customers as Jock, was the family butcher at 8 Bishopric. I was his butcher's boy around 1960 delivering orders on the trade bike on Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1960 by Richard Scullion

The Boulevard used to be Station Road and was the local monkey run on Sat and Sunday nights, where young teenagers male and female used to walk up and down

A memory of Tunstall in 1950 by Gordon Stockton

I lived in a cottage in Long Lane, beyond Church End as a child during the war. I have vivid memories of my life here. The snowy winter of 1943 when the snow reached up to the cottage windows. We had no neighbours except Dick and ...Read more

A memory of Gamlingay in 1940 by Maureen Arrowsmith

I have happy memories of going down to the swing bridge in the school holidays when we visited our grandma in Huttons Ambo, long summer days going down to Leamans' shop for a block of ice cream and running back up the hill before it ...Read more

A memory of Huttons Ambo by Doreen Peel

For Jane, No I'm not Susan Weeks, although the name rings a bell. Looks like we had the same playground, Hesketh Park was great for skating in and Central Park was another great place to run riot in. Regards Susan PS I think the pub in Dartford Town Centre was "The Bull". Please tell me if Im wrong!

A memory of Dartford by Susan Howard

My name is Trina Sullivan nee Grayson,I am researching my family tree and wonder if anybody in the Belvedere area knew of The Graysons, interested in the Greengrocers in Lower Belvedere. Run buy John Darley Grayson and Edith Maud ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere by Trina Sullivan

It was every school summer holiday that my sister and I used to come with our parents to spend a week or so with grandma Annie Penhorwood. If we had any money we would go to the bakery shop near the bottom of the High Street ...Read more

A memory of Bideford in 1961 by Heather Uden

I was brought up in Ecclefechan and attended Hoddom Primary School between 1968 and 1975. Teachers I recall were Mrs Dodds, Mrs McPherson, Mrs Davidson, Miss Kirkpatrick (Mrs Wilson), Mrs McBride, Miss Gibson (Mrs Redpath) ...Read more

A memory of Ecclefechan in 1975 by Douglas Murray

I'm not too sure of what years to mention apart from some happy memorys of the Ovaltine as a young lad with my mum and dad. David my dad was the village postman for many years and mum Annie was a local florist ...Read more

A memory of Abbots Langley by Paul Edwards

This used to be the entrance to Brooklands and we used to run up and down the batter (sic) during some of the races. Foolish bravuro. Our family name was Griffiths and this was our way to the West Weybridge station, I went to the ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet in 1940 by A.G Schnell