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I was evacuated to Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire to be with my aunt. Whilst there I sat an exam called "the 11 plus" which I passed and on the basis of which I was awarded a scholarship to Mitcham County Grammar ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1941 by Douglas Tunbridge

Does any one remember me? My name is Robert Cox. I lived at 47 Sheridan Road right next to the lane that went down to the tip (now built on). I went to Upper Horfield School and I still remember my first day at the school in ...Read more

A memory of Horfield in 1967 by Robert Cox

I was born in Wallsend in 1951 at the Green and first lived at Rose Hill. Everything about the High Street, the shipyards (Slipway, NE Marine, Swans), the Rising Sun Pit, St Peter's School, the Grammar, the Burn, the ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1951 by Bryan Brooks

I think we moved to Edlesborough in 1953/54, when I was 3/4 and my brother Philip was 6/7, my father worked for farmer Pratt, at Southall Farm along Northall Road. I think it now sells furniture, we lived at No 23. I attended ...Read more

A memory of Edlesborough in 1954 by Melvin Walter

I lived in Edgware between 1959 and 1969, I was only 6 months old when we moved from Harrow. I can remember my mother going into the haberdashery shop called Stanley J Lees, the original Sainsbury's with wooden floors and ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by Anne Broomhead

As a small boy in the 1950s I would be taken to see the aircraft at Blackbushe, then London's second airport. Blackbushe was London Heathrow's main fog diversion as it always has been one of the most ...Read more

A memory of Blackbushe Airport by Peter Brown

The music library was in Friars Terrace until 1994, when it moved to the top floor of the library at the Green, which had been the Art Gallery before that moved to the Shire Hall. By 1994 the LP collection was ...Read more

A memory of Stafford by Andrew Baker

When I was a little girl, sometimes I used to stay with my nan in West Drayton on Church Road by the green, and while we went shopping around that quaint little village with about a dozen little ...Read more

A memory of West Drayton by Deborah Rowsell

I remember well the village green ,the stocks and the enormous elm tree, we had to walk from school beside St Margarets church, over the green, past the tree and the stocks to the village hall where we had our lunch(ugh school dinners) ...Read more

A memory of Tintinhull in 1961 by Wendy Leach

I live in one of these houses, and my children play on the green to the right of the photo. There is a great community feeling here. In the Queens 50th Jubilee year we organised a street party on the green for the residents of Springcopse Rd, Cornfield Road and Furzefield Crescent.

A memory of Reigate in 2007 by Caroline Allison