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I can also remember the ice-cream parlour from when I was little, we used to stop here on the way back from the beach, we lived in Broadstairs. In fact at present (2011) the parlour still kind of exists, but is closed! Most ...Read more

A memory of Birchington in 1976 by Tony B

My grandparents moved to Frinton-On-Sea in 1959 and for the whole of my childhood I spent a week or so of every school summer holiday with them in their bungalow. I clearly remember ...Read more

A memory of Frinton-On-Sea by Margaret Drinkwater

I was/am the lad on the right! I discovered this picture a few years back in a superb Frith's book on Kent. Alongside me is my mate Ray. I think the year is more like 1957 or it could the summer of 1956. It was during those lovely ...Read more

A memory of Sheerness in 1957 by Derek Gallagher

After being de-requisitioned and restored at the end of WW2, the Overstrand Hotel was a massive building standing only yards from the cliff edge, it opened, then closed, then re-opened with a new bar called “Bubbles Bar” to cater for ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand by ronaldjackson08

I used to live opposite you at No1 North Road. I am Mary Dodgson. I spent all the summers of the late forties leading the donkeys and ponies up and down the beach or with Rose Cummings and her son, Les Smith, who had the horse ...Read more

A memory of West Kirby in 1948 by Mary Vroegop

I do not have that many clear memories from my stay there, I have a defence mechanism of blotting things out from my mind. I do not know exactly when I was there some time between 1974 - 1977. The only name I remember from that ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by Yuri Buxton

Yes I remember getting chips from the chip shop when Mr and Mrs Pellerade had it - I knew Sandra and she had an older brother, Maurice. My friend, Sally Yarnold, lived just behind there in a ...Read more

A memory of Bishopstoke by lynne006

I went to Hayling Island Suntrap School When I was Five Years Old Around 1957/1958, I remember one boy hand his head hit by a train while looking out of the train window on a school trip and seeing blood running down the ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by Michael Raftery

Iwas6 or five at time onlysaw pernets At weekends used to cry when thydespaired l rember dance teacher wehad she was nice l also sheredaroom with6 other girls my best frind there was Susan lwas vary shy ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs by lin.stroud

I lived in 1 Rockcliffe View Carlin How, from about 1946 to 1952, then my father retired and we then moved to Loftus. My father was Jim Conway the Police Constable. I went to Skinningrove Senior School, ...Read more

A memory of Carlin How in 1946 by Sylvia Fayers