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One of my early memories growing up in Walker was of sitting on the step to the back yard in my grans lane and seeing a group of people all dressed up in their Sunday best. One of the women was carrying the most ...Read more

A memory of Felling in 1950 by D Olly

I have vivid memories of staying in a beautiful, I believe,18th century house opposite a very large driveway near a bend in the lane. It was 1967, and they were friends of my parents who owned ...Read more

A memory of Goodnestone by Sheila Hancock Nee Cornelius

We were among the first half dozen families to move onto Darvel Down back in 1949, I think. We originally occupied No.43 which was one of the handful of finished houses and in those days the estate was a builders dump. ...Read more

A memory of Netherfield in 1949 by Brian Heard

I am looking for a house called 'Red Towers' in Hersham where my mother and two aunts were born and lived in their early days. Does anyone know the Harris family who may have owned or rented this property and the house itself? I would love to know for my family tree.

A memory of Walton-on-Thames in 1910 by Mary Ann Gage

I was born in 1942 at 7 Council Cottages, next door to the Stennings. I used to love fishing in Dawsons Lake at Redehall which was an empty mansion at the time. I have a wish to go back there one day and fish again, but ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1942 by Trevor Bennett

My mother was born in Denbigh Infirmary in 1947. Her father was Kenneth TONG & her mother was called Ceridwen (known as Ceri). She had 4 sisters & 2 brothers. In the 1940s my grandparents were living at The Green in Denbigh. Does ...Read more

A memory of Denbigh in 1947 by Jan Scott

Born in Dulwich in 1947, I spent all my remembered youth living at 52, Wyatt Park Road, next door to a Jewish family. One door down lived Graham? Field. As a youngster, I regularly went to see Batman ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Richard Ansley

The Roundabout use to be a popular place for me to go, it was a public house just a short distance from the Wakefield Jail. I was somewhat surprised on chatting to one man at the bar (I was somewhat interested where he lived) he ...Read more

A memory of Wakefield in 1968 by Roland Mitchell

My brother and I, were evacuated to Far Cotton from North London, in the early years of the war. Peter was about 10 years old and myself about 7 years. I don't recall much, except we stayed with Mr and Mrs Smith and infant daughter, Joy (?) in one of a row of terraced houses........

A memory of Far Cotton in 1940 by Anne Steacy

I was born in Alton in 1945 went to St Johns Catholic School from 1950-61 and was taught by the nuns - I remember Sister Marie Theresa and Sister Peter. My dad's name was Fred and mum was Beattie. We use to shop at ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1960 by Frank Bowers