Search Results

My Mum, sister and I used to go to the Savoy at least once a week, and used to walk from the Sample Shoe shop down the High Street to the Savoy, passing on the way Croydon General Hospital. Along the left hand side of this High ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Jak Stephens

We lived in the village pub The Lifeboat Inn.  I remember being flooded and all the beer barrels floating in the cellar, mum cooking mussels given in lieu of beer, which were left in the bath and climbed up the ...Read more

A memory of Brancaster in 1955 by Carolynn Langley

I was a 13 year old boy from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. My father was a Sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned to Burtonwood RAF Station. We rented a flat at 35 London Rd, Stockton Heath. It ...Read more

A memory of Stockton Heath in 1956 by Jay Wilcox

Hi My name is Nina. I was in the Treloar Hospital during the end of world war two.  I went in when I was 10 and came out on March 30th 1945.  I remember being on the terrace while the blitz was on, what else could they do, most of us were ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1944 by ninadickey

Re: the Regent Cinema razed to the ground for a garage.  Before it was a cinema, it was... a garage.  Really, it was a coachworks called Twickenham Motorworks which was a coachworks.  This belonged to my grandfather, Jotham ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham in 1910 by Elizabeth Mann

We stayed in a small caravan on Ridings Farm, owned then by Mr & Mrs Rand. We travelled by coach from Gosport, Hampshire. Catherine Hackett, my mother,adopted me when I was less than a year old, she was widowed ...Read more

A memory of France Lynch in 1954 by Stella Flux

My grandparents lived in Park Road, and as children myself and my sister used to go tiddler fishing under the suspension bridge. My sister's cat, Danny, used to follow us and join us in our endeavours. And my cat, Honey, got ...Read more

A memory of Builth Wells in 1962 by Verena Lewis

The place name comes from a narrow bridge over a stream that forms the boundary between Rochdale and Wardle on Halifax Road, by The Red Lion pub as it was then. Folk who lived in Smallbridge were once called ...Read more

A memory of Smallbridge in 1940 by Peter Butterworth

We used to go on bike rides from Meopham and always went through Longfield Hill on our way. I do remember my brother entering in to a pool contest there with adults and winning the contest and getting a new two piece cue. It ...Read more

A memory of Longfield Hill in 1977 by Mark Grainger

Came to Minstead for a weeks break to help my wife rest and recover from breast cancer. Stayed in a very nice thatched cottage. We live in a village in Saddleworth that is beautiful, but Minstead the village the people and most of all the ...Read more

A memory of Minstead in 2006 by Philip Howard