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I got married here in Feb 1968 on a cold snowy day after having a few drinks in the Cross Keys pub first. My sister made the bridesmaid dresses and we used all the family cars to save money. The reception was in the new Becontree Hall ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1968 by Sydney Fox

I was born in 42 Lindsworth Road in 1960, our house backed onto a cricket pitch which was owned by a local resident who kept it beautifully maintained and at the end of the cricket pitch was the canal or the 'cut' ...Read more

A memory of King's Norton by Karen Dixon

I don't have any memories of Wrotham Place, but I am in possession of a considerable amount of private papers from the Edmeades family and many photos and private letters from family members during the first and second world ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham by Susan Northwood

My gran was from Cornsay Colliery, her family name was Dunning and they lived in Little Street, Cornsay Colliery. She married a Frank Chapman but he died in WW1 so was a widow; she married my granddad, James ...Read more

A memory of Cornsay Colliery in 1956 by Derick Smith

I spent just under two years at the wonderful Gains Secondary Modern School. It was at a point when it was growing and there was a lot of building work going on but I did see it finished before I left. We came from ...Read more

A memory of Upminster in 1963 by Robert Fall

Here I found myself working in the Turriff Building in 1961. Imagine lunch times with time to explore Brentford. The Butts was first of course, very near to the Turriff Building. You crossed the little footbridge over ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1961 by Nick Beard

I could go on and on with memories. Myself and my parents moved from London to Arbour Way, Elm Park on 24th August 1953. I went to Ayloff School from 1954-1960, when I left to go to Suttons Secondary. We moved ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Elaine Stebbings

It was 1941 or 42 - I was 6 or 7 then. I was a quiet kid, shy, only child. We lived in Walker, close to the Navel Yard. My dad was RAF in North Africa and Mom worked in the shipyard. So I was evacuated. After a ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1941 by Don Telford

My dad was a young soldier with The Kings own Scottish Borders. They were stationed (billeted) in Upminster around the old windmill area. Before they left for the Normandy invasion, they spent lots of time socializing at the ...Read more

A memory of Upminster by Edddie Kennedy

Yateley, from my researches,was a very quiet village, yet being close to Sandhurst Military Acadamy & not that far from Aldershot, was a bolt hole for the military top brass, hence some large elegant houses. One, Glebe House, in ...Read more

A memory of Eversley by Janet Mains