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I lived in the routs in 1952 and when I was three moved to Routs View. I used to help out at Llanwern Park Farm; Garnet Baker was the farmer there at the time. There was lots of long huts at Underwood then, I expect left over from the ...Read more

A memory of Llanwern in 1952 by Wyndham Sheppard

My great uncle, James Thomas Bigrig, served on HMS Impregnable from 1901-1902 and also lived many years in Devonport. My mother, Doris Marion Tillyard, was raised there too as were many of my ancestors from the Lewis, Moore, Pearne and ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Robert Pavlick

Many of my ancestors going back to 1755 from the Lewis and Pearne families of Devonport worked as shipwrights and artisans at the Royal William Yard. My 5th Great-Grandfather William Lewis was a shipwright there from 1766-1769 ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Robert Pavlick

I remember the huts in Thames Rd - I lived in No.14, adjacent to the allotments from birth until I was 5 yrs old. Then moved to 46 Howard Rd Barking between Abbey Rd and Gascoigne Rd great memories of both homes. Vivid memories of ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1949 by Graham Smith(Mancey)

I went to a dreadful boarding school in Sunninghill from 1958 until 1962 for visually impaired girls. A lot of cruelty went on there. It’s now The Royal Berkshire Hotel. We only went out for crocodile walks and church. The school ...Read more

A memory of Sunninghill by sally.french

My mother is writing aother volume of her memoirs and suggested that I send you an account of her sojourn in Tooting whilst her mother was Matron of the Royal Dental Hospital and she spent six happy years ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by paulrwnorris

Yes I remember going over from the junior school to pick up the lunch money from the golf club. I lived in Coleridge rd and I was 10 years old. Form junior school a also went to the secondary school that was in 1957 and was in Mr ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe by medoug

Many happy years spent here as a choir boy and helping mother do her duties as Verger. The Rev Hoyal was resident vicar then. Mother has a tree dedicated to her long and loyal sevice on the village green.

A memory of Stanwell in 1950 by Donald Mason

Anyone remember the competitions at the Royal? We lived over a newsagents in Clyde Road (1952 & 3, I think) and mum and her neighbour used to enter competitions at the Royal. She won a hat competition once. Anyone else enter those events?

A memory of Tottenham in 1952 by Sue Rowe

The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher ...Read more

A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by Timothy Purnell