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I spent many happy days during the summer holidays with my grandparents who lived at No 1 Park Lane. I played in the park opposite and in a wood across a field at the back of the house. There was a pig sty at the bottom of the ...Read more

A memory of Snitterfield in 1940 by David Chamberlain

This was 1958 the time when I seriously got into drainpipes, drapes and rock 'n roll music. I was at Walbottle Secondary Modern School. I used to take in the leg width of my jeans by hand using a needle and thread to ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows

I can almost see Bull Lane from there. We lived in 'Summerfield' half way up that lane. I remember Mr Wilbey's Ironmongers. He had a massive walrus moustache, and a shop that was a genuine museum in itself. There was Woodwards ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Chase in 1959 by Jo Burton

Born in Northlands Drive, Pitsea in 1938, my first recollection was aged 3 years when I remember being put to bed in a cot under the kitchen table during an air raid. We had an Andersen shelter in the ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Mike Perry

I remember this bridge very well. Brought up in MD from 1938 until I left to join the Royal Navy in 1955. We, my brother Tony and Brian Roylance, spent many happy hours in the vicinity especially fishing for ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by Victor Richards

I was born in 1953 and lived for the first 3 years in an old house in Junction Road (Number 8) with my parents and Mum's mum (Granny). The back garden of the house seemed to be a jungle and had its end boundary with ...Read more

A memory of Romford by Roger Harley

I used to live with my aunt and uncle at 10 the Crescent from 1948 to 1954. It was a fantastic life there with woods to play in, and streams to divert. An absolute paradise.  As young children we could play all day in the woods in ...Read more

A memory of Hindlip in 1948 by Chris Westwood

My first memories of Shevington were moving to the council estate on a very wet day and trudging through deep brown clay which served as the road.  At that time there was only one grocery store opposite the entrance to ...Read more

A memory of Shevington in 1952

I affectionately remember regularly visiting my grandparents Horace and Ethel Wilson who lived at "Oakleigh' on the corner of Albert Street and Carlton Road. When I was about 6 I remember my brother and I venturing to the gasworks, which ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1960 by Dave Wilson

I attended Rowlett Road Infants and Studfall Junior School and Corby Grammar School. I lived in Irving Grove. I enjoyed growing up in Corby and I remember going to the dances at the Catholic School run by a lady named Nellie? The ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Lily Redmond