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In 1955, several Air Force families stationed variously at Alconbury and Molesworth Air Force Bases in England found themselves renting flats (apts) in a Jacobean Manor House in the English Countryside. The landlady, ...Read more

A memory of Wadenhoe in 1955 by Perle Champion

Hi, Jo Parnell here and we lived at Southern Drive. I went to St James primary 1974. I remember having a lot of freedom to wander. Does anyone remember the electric circus ? I'd love to see some photos of the flats. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1970 by Jo Bacon

Does anyone remember the annual parties for Dr. Barnabas' collectors? There was a party at the Weir hotel and the cardboard cottages were collected with little presents for the best collectors. We managed a threepenny piece every week even in those hard days!

A memory of Thundersley in 1951 by Mary Cotton

I remember moving to my granddad's house when I was 9yrs old. It was an old house, no bath room, only out side loo. My dad who brought me up built a bathroom on so we could have a bath - before we used tin bath in front of the fire. It was ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1969 by Denise Harrison

Does anyone remember a clothes shop called Snob in portsmouth and I think there was one in southampton too,back in the seventies I loved that shop but have never seen any pictures of it does anyone have one? also there ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1978

I lived in South Warnborough 1968-74 at 'Thatch End' and latterly The Old Parsonage. Both were on Lees Hill. From here I was collected and went to school in Alton. My sister attended Long Sutton Primary. Her headmaster ...Read more

A memory of South Warnborough in 1968 by James Pratt

I was a nurse at pastures form 1962 to 1969, and I remember both Iris and Harold Severn very well. Iris was a Ward Sister, and Harold was a Charge Nurse, the male equivalent. Both were characters with a great sense of humour. They ...Read more

A memory of Mickleover by Ivor Wilkinson

In the 1950s I attended Burlington School in Blagdon Road, New Malden. I remember we were presented with Coronation spoons on the day of the Queens coronation. I remember well some of the teachers, Mr ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1953 by Lionek Paton

I worked in the ticket office at the railway station from about 1959 until about 1962. The taxi drivers would come in for tea and W.H.Smiths was attached to the building. I was one of the first to move in to the block ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by James Stapleton

I remember my relatively short time in Wembley with great affection. At my mother's instigation we moved from Willesden to Lonsdale Avenue, Wembley, in 1953 when I was fourteen. My father paid the princely sum of ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1953 by William (Bill) Rowan