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My mother and father moved to 1 Birch Hill Cottages when I was in arms.  I went to the tiny school in Newtown by mini bus which was really a Bedford van with seats in the back.  I played in the field with the ...Read more

A memory of North Boarhunt in 1959 by Vanessa Hillman(Nee Miles)

I used to walk from Farnham Common down Templewood Lane to visit my friend Viv who lived on Rogers Lane in Stoke Poges. It didn't seem like such a long way back then. This would have been between 1957 and 1960. Both sets of our parents ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Poges by Jill Trimble

I am Mick Phillips and I was at Ewelme School in 1957. Mr Coles was the headmaster and Miss Walker was my class teacher. We were 9 and 10 year olds in the upstairs room and the younger children were taught downstairs by a Miss ...Read more

A memory of Ewelme in 1957 by Mick Phillips

We moved to Colindale Avenue in 1942 shortly after the house was repaired from bomb damaged. Friends were quickly made and I spent many happy days playing in the park opposite the Tube station. The Police grounds were also a spot ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Brian Goodall

REMEMBER, REMEMBER WE must have been thirteen. Cousin Keith and I sat on a small flight of steps, what remained of a burnt-out bungalow overlooking the village. It was May Day. Hot and ...Read more

A memory of Mochdre in 1952 by Elwyn Edwards

The best years of my life, I loved Blandford Camp and everything about it, swinging high on the swings singing songs, going to Blandford primary school (as it was callled then), roller skating around the camp, bike rides to the ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1970 by Gillian Jackson

Born in Chelmsford in 1946 I grew up in Gt. Yeldham but after a career in the Fleet Air Arm the flying side of the Royal Navy I settled in Somerset. The small town where I now reside though quite away from the ...Read more

A memory of Great Yeldham by John Waller

Wes Coulthard and me decided to go to the smoke to try our luck,this was early sixties. Wes had worked in London before for a building company called Higgs & Hill so we decided to give it a go as we had just been laid off. It ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1964 by Jimmy Burrows

There are only a few things I remember about being billited to live with a lovely family Mr. & Mrs Hood and their two sons Trevor my age ( six) and Keith a couple of years older. Both the Hoods were artists . Their ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1940 by Denman Lalonde

I was born in East Hill in 1949. I remember going to Sunday School in the hall just down the road while the main church was being rebuilt. My brother and I went to Saturday morning pictures and about that time there was a yo-yo craze ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1953 by Fran Butler