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Having moved into Walls Quarry with my husband in 1961, I too remember the snow. It started to fall on Boxing Day 1962. We had a job to get home from Gloucester by car during theafternoon. By March '63 it was still thick and frozen ...Read more

A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by Pauline Hill

My name is John Healey, I was born in 1940 and lived in Brick Lane, Enfield. The Second World War was on. I cannot say at what age I could read but I believe I was 2-3 years old. My first recolection of ...Read more

A memory of Bredhurst in 1940 by John Healey

I was living opposite the school, so when i first started i was four and a half, i se to go home on the break for my milk and biscuits. I remember Mr Cox and Mr Threpleton very well as i do Mrs Hill, she was the ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1953 by Ian Drury

The old school was still in the village - the toilets seem to be well remembered - how I hated those. The old school for me smelled of those tablets of paint which were used in art class, for dabbling. That smell ...Read more

A memory of South Weald in 1959 by Dermot Keenan

I first came to Southfield House shortly after I was born in Falkirk in 1935 with my mother & father - Dorothy & Robert Barr. We lived there until I was 15 years. My brother Robin and sister Katie came along after me. To ...Read more

A memory of Slamannan in 1930 by Patricia Garwasiuk

I went to Southlands as a day girl and have many happy memories of walking around the gardens during break chatting to friends Di, Dinks, Anita and Helen were members of my class. Miss Panter was Headmistress, Miss bowen ...Read more

A memory of Harrow on the Hill by paddyfredempson

My mam, Linda Leggett, had a toy stall at the corn exchange end. Mam and I loaded up a handcart with toys every Tuesday and pushed it from our shop in Commercial Road, next door to the post office. I helped unload and set ...Read more

A memory of Spalding in 1950 by Janice Brutnell

I recall a huge thermometer erected on the clock tower, it was graduated in pounds sterling with a picture of a Spitfie at the top> We children, and of course the rest of the Wendover community subscribed as much as we could as often ...Read more

A memory of Wendover in 1940 by Edward Pace

Wolseley Bridge has some memories for me going back to late 1968 and throughout 1969 as I was a pupil at St Bede’s School in nearby Bishton Hall. My mother was matron at the time and as we were mother and son (father died ...Read more

A memory of Wolseley Plain in 1969 by John Richard Jones

Before the 1944 Education Act most children attended schools up to the age of 14 years then they left to seek employment unless they had been fortunate to secure a free place at a Grammar or Technical ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1900 by Will Clark