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Has anyone old photos and or memories of the Park Hall cinema? There was also a cinema/ picture house called the Olympia somewhere in Cwmcarn that probably was for silent only and closed when films went "sound". A friend is ...Read more

A memory of Cwmcarn

The whole Swiss Cottage area has changed beyond recognition. There seem to be few photos of how it was till the late 1960s, when the Cottage Grill, my father's restaurant, was demolished. This building gave it's name to the ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage by Tony Papard

I was raised in Broadway from a baby until I married in 1970. My parents, Gordon and Joan Harrison owned and ran the Broadway Coaches Ltd at Yew Tree House, just above this photo. Behind the house we kept many coaches which took ...Read more

A memory of Broadway in 1960

I lived at Cotton Valley Farm from 1955 until 1959 with my parents, Reg and Jenny Foster, and my five brothers, before we then moved to a small village called Hardmead end of February 1959; my mother is still living there. I was ...Read more

A memory of Willen in 1955 by Shirley Foster

My great grandfather, Christopher, owned Bridge House next to the bridge when this photo was taken, having moved there from Spennithorne where he had been the landlord of the Old Horn Inn. We believe the cart driver was my ...Read more

A memory of Middleham in 1910 by Frank Hauxwell

I lived at Camber Sands from 1950-1958 and then Rye. Jury's Gap is a little past Camber and the name comes from 'Jews' Gate' - probably because the area seems to have been used by Jewish merchants of Rye and Winchelsea, ...Read more

A memory of Jury's Gap in 1950 by Bernard Leeman

It was a hot sultry afternoon at NUS Camp Leverington and I had decided to walk into Wisbeach, and had just walked past this church. In the church grounds, under large shade trees, I heard a cricket match with people ...Read more

A memory of Leverington in 1960 by Mark Robinson

In this photo, you can see two machines for chopping ice cream into blocks. Some blocks were small for choc ices and wafer ices. Some were larger for making 'bricks'. In the background, on the ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1955 by Colin Sinfield

This is a picture of Haslemere High Street looking towards the Town Hall in the centre of the photo.

A memory of Haslemere

My dad, Cliff O'Dell, frequented the pub on a regular basis, he always had 'a few' and always ended up singing "Danny Boy". He had a garage called O'Dell Bros, on Eastbrook Road, where my brother Cliff worked, also our cousin ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1966 by Pat Young Nee Odell