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I have many memories of the horse-drawn barges on the Basingstoke Canal at the Kings Head boat house and lock. The barges probably started from Aldershot, and on through Surrey. I used to wait for the horse ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by The Frith Memory Archivist

At the time, I was in the RN, serving in a Joint Servce org attachd to the Army at Wilton. My wife and I lived in Manor Road, just off London Road. Most of our shopping was done at weekends, starting off with a ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury in 1962 by David Jones

I went to the Mission Hall in 1941, for Sunday school reading, the Vertigan family took the classes, this was also the library. Concerts were held there, also tea time parties. Bargies came to the services when they tied up by the canal side. I was born nearby in 1936.

A memory of Pye Bridge in 1941 by Margaret Simpson

Please can anyone remember if there was a house that sat on the side of Christie Road and the canal? All I can remember was that it was a big red-bricked 4-storey house the you could see from the main road? I believe that this house ...Read more

A memory of Stretford in 1970 by Robert Moore

How exciting to see this photo. In the early 1950s my nan had a sweet shop at 90 Albion Street (I think the building on left with drug sign). At around 1956 -57 my mum, dad, sister Trude and myself moved in. We built up the ...Read more

A memory of Southwick in 1957 by Paula Kinsella

Each summer we would set off, my mam and dad and I and the dog, Raq, in our 1938 Morris 8 to travel from Hartlepool to Rickmansworth to stay with Uncle Charlie and Aunt Sally Charters who had the grocery shop in Norfolk Road (number ...Read more

A memory of Rickmansworth in 1953 by Henry Jopling

The Eastman Family lived in Gt. Bedwyn from 1735. My Grandad lived in Brook Street then later at Railway Terrace, until his death in 1934. My Grandad had died several years before I was born, but I have vivid memories of my ...Read more

A memory of Great Bedwyn by Heather Trayhorne

I have lived in New Haw most of my life.  My family moved from Kings Road to Farleigh Road in 1949.  One of my first memories was being taken to the New Haw Clinic for day care as my mother worked in London.  There I encountered ...Read more

A memory of New Haw by Christine Beddows

I never saw this part of the canal as shown in this photo, the opposite bank was the site of Frith's, the builders' supply company. My father was a salesman for Frith's for many years. The location was called ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1956 by Doug Caton

I had the best nights out of my life in the George Inn after working at Greenfield Estate where I met my late wife Beth Connel.  We married at Hubberholme Church in 1984 and moved to Horton.  The George was full of local ...Read more

A memory of Hubberholme in 1971 by Mr Slater