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I was born in Pimlico in 1946, but always have the fondest memories of my many visits to Leytonstone to, whom I knew at the time as, my Auntie Joyce and Yugoslavian Uncle Michael who lived in Vicarage Road during the ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1955 by Arthur Bell

I remember the first supermarket opening in New Hey Road, don't know the exact year but was about 1958. I went to the opening with my mum and they had a competition to guess the weight of a chicken. ...Read more

A memory of Woodchurch by Pamela Hignett

Does anyone remember there being a children's home in Haywards Heath in the mid to late 1940s? I was sent to one, along with my brother, when we were both infants. Our family had come down from Scotland and were homeless. ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath in 1948 by Ursula Deakins

I was born at 19 Church St, St Peters, where my grandfather owned the butchers shop. My first memory is of playing on the lino floor just inside the front door. My father, who served in the RAF during the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950 by Ronald Taylor

Brought up at 10 Polmuir Road from 1953 till 1962, I have great memories of the xmas times we had there; putting a stocking at the foot of the bed and a pillowslip for the goodies, my two sisters Moira and Mary playing with ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm by David Millar

I came down from Scotland when I was 16 & was a nanny in Broad Hinton for a year for Mr & Mrs Huddy (can't remember the name of the house), & then I decided that I wanted to work with horses, so I got a ...Read more

A memory of Clyffe Pypard in 1969 by Alison Cloy

My Name is William Speirs, in the 1940's we moved from Bellshill Lanarkshire to live in Fishcross, Alloa, Clackmananshire, Scotland. This is a short story about when we were kids in Fishcross from about 1946 till I left ...Read more

A memory of Fishcross in 1950 by William Speirs

Not a memory, but may mean something to someone else, Whilst clearing out my parents home I found a very old Bible, inside the cover, penned in beautiful ink writing the name Margaret Beattie, Burncleugh 1824. Nothing else. Who was ...Read more

A memory of Burncleuch by Sarah Coates

Lived in houses by the garrison remember them in rows numbered A1 A2 etc had a mate called Billy Todd came from Scotland, used to walk to School past the Garrison main entrance ,loads of Americans always running had numbers on their ...Read more

A memory of Salford by jfsuperstar

I used to stay at the"Almel Hotel"&the"Salutation"in Doncaster whenever I was on the long haul up to Northern Scotland

A memory of Doncaster by Paul Overton