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On leaving Furzefield Juniors, summer of 1958, you had your school holidays and walked to the other side of Merstham Estate to begin your stay in Senior School. Either on your first day or second, depending on how you ...Read more

A memory of Merstham in 1958 by Vic Townsend

We Davies` lived at 406 Penn Road. My mother Sarah used to be caretaker at Penn Congregational Church and worked also for Miss Dorothy Tweedie whose house `The Crest ` was on the corner of Pennhouse Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Penn in 1957 by Christopher Davies

I was a student at Dockenfield Manor in the 1940's. Looking back, the entire faculty should have been arrested for child abuse, fraud, and a host of other charges. At the time, the Headmasters name was Dr. ...Read more

A memory of Dockenfield in 1940 by Maurice De Montfalcon

I lived in Hilldene Ave, 133 (to be exact) since I was born; almost opposite what was then Everards Hardware Store. Roof jumping at the back of the shops and riding bikes down the mud slope by what used to be the nursery by the ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1970 by Chris Newby

I was born in 1946 and went to St Ignatius Infants and Junior school and then on to Kenyngton Manor sec school. I worked at Vienna bakeries along with the Parnell brothers who owned the bakery. I was also a ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by Geoff Mertens

1950-60 My friends and I spent many happy hours exploring the old manor house; entering the wine cellars with the resident bats. We used to go out on the lake in a boat that was moored there. The house had 'twisted candy' chimney pots.

A memory of Trowbridge by Marilyn Stowe

I remember it so well, being told we were moving to a house in Sudbourne Road, Brixton. I was nearly six years old and moved into a very old and neglected Victorian House at no 23, Sudbourne Road, with my mum, ...Read more

A memory of Brixton in 1952 by Annette Healy

so pleased to have found this site, i grew up in aldershot and i remember all the places in the oics, i swam at the lido and whent to sat morning pictures, i played for hours in manor park and attended manor park school. i was married ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot by Kathleen Redford

I was evacuated with my mother and siblings to Thorpe Abbots during the war from London, and have many happy memories from that time even though there was a war on. The generosity of the Americans always comes to mind. To ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Abbotts in 1943 by Terry Bates

I was born in No.5 Peaceful Row (Bug Alley) and remember it well, I left in 1953. We played on the meadow and in the railway sidings, the level crossing was replaced by the bridge and the Manor Way is now a dead end.

A memory of West Thurrock