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My name is Peter Marshall and I was at a Home / School called Whiteness Manor. To get to our School there was two ways from the Captain Digby, first way was as you come out of the Captain Digby turn right and go up Whiteness Road when ...Read more

A memory of Kingsgate in 1960 by Peter Marshall

Because of the grounds of Horeham Manor virtually all the shops were on the side of the road that is to the right in the photograph entitled "Horam, Main Road c1955". One exception can be seen in this picture, and I believe is ...Read more

A memory of Horam by Mark Pierson

I was told a tale by Mrs Lester of Bradwell Village that one day the lord of Bradwell Manor had visitors from Scotland staying, and early one morning as they looked out of their bedroom window and looked across ...Read more

A memory of Heelands in 1890 by Linda Sholl

I was born in Balham in 1948 and lived initially in a flat in Trinity Road near the then police station with Mum, Dad and Aunty Edie, and finally in a bay-fronted twenties house on Tooting Bec Road until I left home to go to ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Marion Coward

Coming back to this site, I was so glad to read the memories that Jimmy Burrows has added for Newburn & Millfield. His memories was just a lttle before mine but the areas are so vivid in my mind of when I was a kid. ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1965 by Palmina Moore

I was adopted in 1970 and was moved from east London to New Haw. I was brought up in Grange Rd, family name Alexander. I never had much of a home life but it didn't matter because the time was spent fishing on ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1982 by jasonalexander38

I lived near here, we are looking the other way to the other pic, Dorothy Mutton's Post Office is in the distance. On the right is the elm hedge and bank which bordered the (dry) gravel pit where we played. It was wonderful! A dump ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1950 by Dave Hill

It was a long walk to Wanstead Park from where we lived as children.  We lived at  Stephens Road, Stratford West Ham. Weekends and school holidays Mum would pack a picnic for the six of us, usually jam sandwiches or cheese if Mum had ...Read more

A memory of Wanstead in 1955 by Joan Doble

This is where Alan asked me to marry him on a beautiful moonlit evening in January. The weather was mild and the moonlight was shining on the sea making it all silvery. There weren't many people around, just the odd jogger and dog ...Read more

A memory of Eastbourne in 2008 by Angela Green

I was living at Cranborne where my father was the police sergeant. At the time of a crisis, members of the government came to stay with Lord Cranborne at the manor. The  matter of security arose and it was decided a policeman ...Read more

A memory of Cranborne by Painter Robert