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I remember as a child spending my Saturday pocket money buying Airfix kitsets at Woolworths. My last memories of England before emigrating to New Zealand in 1964 were of my childhood in New Malden and attending Scared Heart school in Burlington Road.

A memory of New Malden in 1964 by Mike Condon

I was evacuated from Fulham south London in September 1939 along with my brother and sister. my first school was Lincoln Court School in Green Lane Addlestone. We all thought Addlestone a beautiful place which it was after living in ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge by donald.ramsey34

This would be about 1950. Radio was the in thing, me Nanna and Granda had one that was powered by an accumulator, this was a square glass jar with two elements inside connected to two terminals on the top which would fit and connect ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1950 by Jimmy Burrows

I was born in Albertina road Treowen in 1940 and have some very good memories of Crumlin and Newbridge .They were good days but hard . My dad worked in The old Griagfawr pit . I left Crumlin in 1965 to work at Lucas Girling Cwmbran .I had a lot of good pals in Crumlin and will never forget them .

A memory of Crumlin in 1940

I was evacuated when I was 9 with my sister to East Buckland in May 1940, and we stayed with Mr and Mrs Coles at Lower Pit Farm. They looked after us very well and we became part of the village scene. I would ...Read more

A memory of East Buckland in 1940 by John Grant

My introduction to the Monckton mining community began on a bitter cold March Monday morning in 1944. The wartime Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin had decreed that I should become one of his boys. So here I was at ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1944

I was born Patricia Gowans in 1957. My mam was Ettie Humble, my dad was John Gowans and we lived 3 Third Single Row with my nana and grandad Gowans. My dad worked at the pit till it closed, then he went ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1961 by Patricia Baister

I have just started researching and writing a family history for my daughter who was born here in Australia and has little knowledge of the backgrounds of her English grand- and great grandparents. My theme is "Thank ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood by Paula Stocker

I used to live at Orchard Place, small terrace cottages on Main Road, St Pauls Cray. Previous to this as readers may recall I lived at the top of Chalk Pit Avenue in a semi-detached bungalow with my ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray by Derek Stocker

When a boy, my father, Donald William Stevens, used to show visitors through the Pixie caves for 1/2d per person, with the light from a candle for illumination. After WWII he followed in his father's (William ...Read more

A memory of Chudleigh by Richard Stevens