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Towards the end of 1968 my husband had to complete a year's site experience and his placement was at Kiddie.  We left our home in Kent and moved up. After searching for rented accommodation we were lucky ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1968 by Geraldine Todd

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations ...Read more

A memory of Hammersmith in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Thelma Hurly

Like many families, mine moved to Corby from Scotland in 1949. Our first home was in Stevenson's Way. We moved from Stevenson's Way to Chelveston Drive on The Lodge Park Estate in July 1952. I was 8, my little brother three and a ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Moira Jones

We moved to Cherry Valley Top in 1945, father working for Jack Ormond who farmed both CV top and Staggarth farms. I started Rothwell school the same day that Ron Bates did. I was "lucky" enough to go onto Caistor ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell by Dere Broughton

I was at Aspinal county Primary School in Gorton, there was a terrible teacher there who wore clogs and used to rap our knuckles. I remember my best friend Jennifer Johnson, who lived near the Rota cinema. ...Read more

A memory of Gorton by kendo72

We moved into a brand new home at 3,Barnfield Wood Close,in 1955. Next door at No 4,theAgombars lived. They built No 1,2,3,and 4,No 5 was built by Mr White in 1959. The houses in Barnfield Wood Road were full of ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Martin Newell

Who remembers this junction in the 50`s and a large house on the left corner of Boyne hill called Amco House a lodging house for apprentices indentured at Anti Attrition engineering Co on Cannon lane Woodlands park. I was there with ...Read more

A memory of Maidenhead by fernandoferreira76

My mother, Mrs Pat Bishop, was Headmistress of Boddington C of E School from November 1949 until sometime in 1962. In the beginning there were only about 9 children in the school, 5yrs to 11, no mains water or ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boddington by Peter Bishop