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MY memories of Strood are of school days, of playing in the grounds of Rochester Castle, of a cold Christmas with all the lights, of catching the bus to and from school. I remember walking to the bakery on Sunday to buy fresh bread, ...Read more

A memory of Strood in 1965 by Fred Oddy

Born and bred in Coach Road Greasborough, memories of the infamous club and the many famous acts that my father was lucky enough to play the organ for. Tom Jones, Frankie Vaughan, Shirley Bassey. I even remember some ...Read more

A memory of Greasbrough in 1960

Hi. I was born in 1945, Barbara Campbell Arbuckle at Northcote Road. My family's name was Arbuckle and my grandfather was a police man at New Malden police station with a picture of the generations of Arbuckle ...Read more

A memory of New Malden in 1945 by Barbara Hudspeth

I was brought up at 14, Ingestre Street and always consider myself a Bathside boy. I was very lucky to have my school opposite my front door. Just up the street was Mr.Barneys shop where you could buy 4 black jacks for a ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1960 by David Corley

My parents and I lived in a prefab in Gale Street, Dagenham in 1953. I was only six but have vivid memories of the Coronation. My father managed to obtain a TV and all my relatives from Wales ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1953 by Angela Greenslade

I lived in Lemington untill 1954 approx and we lived in the front row of the Pit Row houses. We could stand outside and watch the trains going past full of coal and wave to the drivers, playing on the pit heaps, wouldn't like the ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1953 by Rosemary Cawley

We rented 14 Fore Street from the Jecks-Wrights from 1971-1973. My husband, was stationed at RAF Bentwaters and he used to work evenings at the Trust House Forte Hotel. Mrs Jecks-Wright would stop by almost every ...Read more

A memory of Framlingham in 1971 by Carleen Shepp

My Mother and I arrived in 1974, from a divorced Warrington and the dilapidation of the north-west. Merrily drinking tea and eating custard tarts in the bare miners' cottage living room, sitting in a deck chair and eating from a ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1977 by James Harrison

At the right hand side of the photo is a huge horse chestnut tree, that stood in the front garden of the house on the corner of Nork Way and Warren Road. As a little girl, l would walk to the shops at Nork with my mother, from our ...Read more

A memory of Nork in 1959 by Patricia White

This photo was taken before 1950. My father built a house by the church where it shows outhouses (now No 76), and the light coloured house was owned by my uncle, and in my lifetime there was always a porch on the front.

A memory of Delabole