Search Results

I lived in Collins Green with my family in the very early 60's. I lived at number 35 with my mum and dad Brian and Christine Leather. I was around 3yrs old and my sister Caroline was around a year old. My mum then ...Read more

A memory of Collins Green by Jane Basley

Mum and Dad were nurses, Dad specialising in psychiatric nursing. In the late 1960s, their careers took them to Jacques Hall and a post with what was then known as the Spastics Society. The Society had either bought or ...Read more

A memory of Jacques Hall by Nicolas Devonport

Pavs started as a large wooden hut made by Ray Henikier, a carpenter. I used to help him take down the hut in the late Autumn and put it back up the following spring. Then Pavs was rebuilt in block work. My father used to work ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by John Gambrill

I lived in Willow Row Cottages throughout the war years with my mother and brothers. Across the road and down a lane lived Digger Thurlow and Mr Dean. We bought some of our groceries at the shop next to The White Horse. The Evergreen Oak was at the crossroads

A memory of Thelnetham by Peter Barrall

Photo shows roof of the baths in castle street and the car park opposite which is now shops heals went in there when it opened I lived in 18 castle street till they knocked it down about 1968/69 I remember the car park very ...Read more

A memory of Guildford by Bob Whitehead

I lived in East Ham from the time i was born til i was 30 then moved to Essex. Does anyone remember the sweet shop on the way to Burgess Manor. Think it was in the road down the side of The White Horse pub. or may be not. I was at one ...Read more

A memory of East Ham by Susan Kitchen

I arrived at the school in 1971 I was 9 years old such a long time ago I read through other people views and remember Mr Moore in the way he has been described and also Mr renton who was a very nice ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by Richard Leigh

My mum Pauline Downing was born in 1931 and lived in Cavendish Road at the Tooting Bec Common end. At the beginning of ww2 she was evacuated to Cornwall whereas her older sister, Enid, went to Eastbourne. Does anyone have a family member who remembers her? Sadly she is no longer with us.

A memory of Balham

We moved in to our new house in Rosemary Avenue in 1938. We had a Triumph car and my father built a garage of timber and asbestos sheets and laid concrete runways for it (they're still there). I started school in 1939 ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey by David Leach

My parents used to rent a couple of weeks in a flat on (I think) Atlantic Terrace. I vaguely recall that a Mrs Rudge owned the property - although I may have that wrong as it is such a long time ago. My memories are of lovely sunny days on ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath