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My family moved from Kent to Little Stukeley at the beginning of the Second World War.  I believe my uncle had a bakery there for my father was a baker.  My uncle's name was Sidney P Bull and his wife was Etta. ...Read more

A memory of Little Stukeley in 1940 by Janet Chappell

I was stationed at Chilwell barracks near Nottingham in 1953. There was a very tall lad in my barracks by the name of Hill. he came from Bristol a place I have never been to. He was a long distance runner in civvy ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Les May

Are there any members of the Trimmer Family in Hartley Wintney ? I come from Kent. Brian Trimmer

A memory of Hartley Wintney by Brian Trimmer

The Army My call up papers came with a railway warrant for Gloucester, where I and another group of lucky lads, were picked up by army lorry and taken to the barracks of the Gloucester Regiment for our six weeks basic training. Unloaded ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1947 by Arthur Cottrell

When I was around seven years old I was at a convalescence home called Oak Bank, in Seven Oaks Kent. Is it still there? Carol Harrison

A memory of Sevenoaks in 1950 by Carol Harrison

This is a very evocative picture. My parents used to take me on two week long summer holidays to the Kent coast in the 1950s to early 1960s - Margate, Westgate, Broastairs, Birchington. They were exciting times. Although ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Peter Leach

We - that means my brothers  and I - arrived at the home from Kent and although we were very small at the time we grew to know this as home. My best memories are of a Sister Esther who looked after us, and watching the TV which had just ...Read more

A memory of West Pentire in 1950 by Nicholas Howell

Riceman's fire was Sunday 6th October 1963. I am researching a book on Deal's shops and have been given the local newspaper for that week. The front page banner headline is "Deal store destroyed by fire." And the introduction reads ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1963 by Judith Davies

We moved from Kent to Eastwood near Leigh-on-Sea when I was 11 which was in 1960. Every Sunday we would get the bus (dad didn't drive then) to Leigh. We'd walk from where the cockle sheds were (dad always had some or whelks maybe ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1960 by Shirley Chamberlain

I have very happy memories growing up in Battersea. My very special memories are of me and my friends Jackie Heath and Geoffrey Marshall going to Battersea Park and going into what was called the Jungle back then. We ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1973 by April Gagg