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Hi, came across memories of Aveley by chance and found this very interesting as we were also the first to move into the experiment house, number 37 Central, and like you said was very cold. When we moved there there was no ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Elaine Olley

Hi, my name is Jessie Peake (Nee Kent), I used to go to the Willows school between 1944 and 1952. The Willows was my favourite school, I can remember having to sleep on camp beds every afternoon .. boy, did that room smell from those ...Read more

A memory of Morden in 1950 by Jessie Peake

I am looking for anyone with information on a Mary Frances Marchant. My grandmother, her and her family are all from Bramley - she was born March 1915. So I'm looking for anyone with memories of their grandparents who may of mentioned ...Read more

A memory of Bramley

I don't particularly have a memory as such. My great grandfather William Edward Orpin, lived at Hill Barn, Fawkham Village, Kent, Rural District of Dartford, Ecclesiastical Parish of St. ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1900

On June 8th 1940, just 6 weeks before my 8th birthday, I was evacuated to Fillingham where I was billeted with Mr & Mrs Cross and their daughter Violet. I had to attend church three times a week and chapel twice. At ...Read more

A memory of Fillingham in 1940 by Alex Litchfield

The Royal Hotel was one of the "whitebait inns" which drew custom down-river from London in the nineteenth century. In both World Wars Purfleet was a transit camp for thousands of soldiers waiting to be shipped abroad from ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet by Gemma Gemma

My husband Roy Webb was a policeman in Earby for 2 years before we emigrated to Australia in 1967. We lived at the police house next door to Sergeant and Mrs Bent. They had a son Robert (and a white poodle). Inspector Derek Hardy ...Read more

A memory of Earby in 1965 by Valerie Whitby

I was born in 1951 and lived with my parents Gladys and Bill Thompson at 39 Nansen Road until I married in 1970. The Queen Vic pub was my parents local and I remember the landlord at the time being an Irishman called ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Barbara Freeman(Nee Thompson

I was born 15.10.32 above the Barber's Shop in the Square and subsequently taken to Rothesay, Bute where I was brought up. Dad was a Master Mariner, lost at sea 19.10.35. My Mother was Leah Drury, born 17.06.07 daughter ...Read more

A memory of Pontlottyn in 1900 by John Mackay

My parents, brother and I moved to Nanpantan in 1949 and lived on Snells Nook Lane, we were there until 1954 and then moved down to Farningham in Kent for my Dad's new job. We hated to move as we all loved Nanpantan. I had 3 ...Read more

A memory of Nanpantan in 1949 by Norma Hauser