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I was but a young lad of 13 when I were to stay in a small village called Oare with my brother-in-law and sister within a cottage of which was named the China Cottages. The cottages originally had ceilings as low as five ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1963 by Roland Mitchell

Oakley House, situated off Radstock Way, was used as a youth centre when I was a teenager in the 1970's. I never went there, probably because I didn't go to senior school in Merstham, but I heard all the scary stories about the ...Read more

A memory of Merstham

A Sunday day out from New Brighton with my family, playing French cricket on the field above the mere, I watched the rowing boats. In 1958 I went a ride there on my bike one day. I wanted a row on the boat. The gentleman in ...Read more

A memory of Raby by David Lawton

I grew up in Splott, went to St Albans then Splott Road High. My dad had a hardware shop in Carlile Stret opposite Orsolinis the grocers. In 1970 we moved to Llanishen. In 1974 I moved back to Splott but boy how it had changed, the ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1961 by Rocco Federico

I always remember the Cricket Green as the lazy hazy days of summer.  My father played cricket here, I don't remember the name of his team, but we had to sit and watch him.  I liked it when the crocuses poked ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1959 by Carole Baldwin

I was born in Balham in 1948 and lived initially in a flat in Trinity Road near the then police station with Mum, Dad and Aunty Edie, and finally in a bay-fronted twenties house on Tooting Bec Road until I left home to go to ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Marion Coward

It was 1947 and I had just started school at Newburn infants, I was only four and a half, I can still remember me Ma crying when she left me, she should have been clapping her hands. There I was in a lovely knitted jumper - me Ma was ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1947 by Jimmy Burrows

I don't know when it opened as a nursing home nor when it closed and can find no information of that period but I was born there in September 1945 at a cost of 3 17s 6d (I still have the original invoice!) and ...Read more

A memory of Llanfrechfa in 1945 by Graham Hadley

I remember working at weekends and school holidays at Scrag Oak. I was still at school and worked there for about two years. The house and farm was owned by Mr George Edward-Jones (the spelling may be wrong). The one full ...Read more

A memory of Scrag Oak in 1961 by William Highton