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My Time At The Children's Home

I have often wonder why I have this memory of being sent away, as with many I have read, you felt as you were being punish for being ill. Can remember not seeing my parents for nearly three years -I was only just ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1962 by Jane Darbyshire

My Stay At St Mary's

l think it was 1957 but am not sure. l remember my stay at St Mary's very much. After my first 2 weeks of being home-sick l loved it, the nuns and nurses were so kind. l remember beetroot with every meal and going down the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1957

My School To

I also went to Tylers Croft Girl's School, from 1959 /1963 I can't remember much about my time there, other than the first teacher I had was very young, I think her name was Miss Fielding - she married not long after I started but ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1959 by Alma Durrant

My Poor Upbringing By Teresa Shackell/Torrington

I was brought up in gwehelog no usk very poor and I can ember vividly very hungry most of the time oh and ice inside the windows I was so cold yet we had coal or rather wood from our local fields we used to ...Read more

A memory of Usk by teresashackell

My Own Memories Of Eltham

I lived at 27 Kingsholm Gardens in Eltham from 1961. I have nothing but great memories of growing up in Eltham until we left around 1971. At 5 years old, running to Glovers or Wally's close to Brisset Park to pick up ...Read more

A memory of Eltham by gw

My Old School And School Friends

I was born in London in 1936but lived in Dagenham, I went to Erkenwald girls school , and before that Dorothy Barley. I lived in the war years I was uneak then because I was the only black child in the schools, I was ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by chloesupergran

My New House

We have just bought a cottage here in North End and I am immersing myself in the wonderful history of the place. It looks nearly the same as it did all those years ago. Does anyone know when these cottages were built? I am like ...Read more

A memory of Higham Ferrers in 2009

My Mother Was Evacuated To Buckinghamshire Twice!

Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many ...Read more

A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by Julia Skinner

My Memories When I Was Young In Stroud 1950s

It was amazing to look back at some of these photos..remembering them well. We as a family lived at 35 stratford road which was then a council house owned by the fire brigade, father worked in the fire ...Read more

A memory of Stroud by william007roberts

My Memories Of Mitcham

I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Derek Jones

Captions

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Caption For Alderley Edge, The Tea Room 2005

The auction, which was held in Macclesfield in October 1938, was a spectacular failure, so much so that less than a tenth of the lots were sold.

Caption For Luton, From Eaton Farm 2005

Like so much of the south-east, the government wants to pack the people in, but it does not want to pay the price in infrastructure.

Caption For St Neots, The Rotary Club Millennium Clock 2005

Part of this work saw the restored Day Column moved on to a new, higher plinth which has given it greater prominence and made it much more of a feature.

Caption For Carlisle, Tullie House 2005

Sited on an old cattle market, the Sands Leisure Centre was opened in 1983 to provide much valued modern gym and leisure facilities, as well as acting as a well-used venue for theatre and musical

Caption For Loughborough, C1955

The choices, and the faults, are the writer's, but, if your favourite place or story is missing, there will hopefully still be much to enjoy.

Caption For Petersfield, High Street, Clare Cross 1898

After much deliberation over an appropriate location for the town's memorial, it was erected by the mason Andrew Perryman of Dragon Street in its present position early in 1922 - a position in

Caption For Henley On Thames, Elizabethan Houses

I have not mentioned the Civil War or local politics at all - these belong in other books; but I hope I have indicated that the town seen in the Frith views has much of its earlier framework or skeleton

Caption For Dorking, High Street 1922

Julius Caesar mentioned the existence of a domestic fowl in Britain in 55BC, and the Roman historian Columbella describes a breed much prized for its table- qualities.

Caption For Scarborough, Castle From The East Pier C1958

Much damage was done to the curtain wall of the Castle, and the 1745 barracks were demol- ished.