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I was born in Crystal Place Road Dulwich in July 1930. I did not know the full address until a few months ago. My family moved to Grove Park when I was six months old and my mother died in March 1932. My father died when I was thirteen. I ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1930 by James Tait

I have similar memories to you Lyn, in fact I was in your sister's class at Anerley School (born in Stone Park hospital) so I remember you too as an older girl! I remember the penny in the slot train going round ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace by Jane Holland

Did anyone live around here in the 1950s & 60s? My memories are of being sent to search out the sandstone on the Hollas so that my mum could do the steps. Going to the coal yard off Low Hill with ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool by Barbara Mcdonald

Having read Kenneth Ortons' memories, it brought back visions in my mind of the good times growing up in the loveliest little village I know. When I was born in 1947 my mam and dad lived with my grandma at 60 Thornlaw North ...Read more

A memory of Thornley in 1947 by David Thompson

I used to live on the London Road, two doors from St. Bernard's Convent, across the side road, in Mead Cottage. It was painted white. From 1945 to 1951 I attended Netherwood further down the London Road ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe by Zoe Hodgins

I was a pupil at Holystreet from 1956 till it closed as a school a few years later. I have vivid memories of Miss Watson and Miss Thompson, also Miss Wyatt and Mrs Ruegg. It was a beautiful place for a school, I remember the chilly ...Read more

A memory of Chagford in 1955 by Rosemary Webber

I was born and bred in the (then village) of Biddulph, south of the hall. My closest memories of the Old Hall were the stories my mother related to me, especially about the incidence of the siege during the Civil War and the use of ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph in 1947 by Victor Mayer

I lived in Dorset Road, Mottingham from birth, 1947. I have so many happy memories of what was then a real village. I can remember that no one owned a car in our road and it became our playground with hopscotch, marbles etc. I ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham

In the early 1940s my father was a coastguard stationed at Barry Island. I was about 5 years old and I vividly remember that one day I was sat on my 3-wheeled bike at the top of the hill and a German aircraft flew over at a ...Read more

A memory of Barry Island in 1940 by Derek Cousins

The Royal order of Buffalos..... Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland. When I was a ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1993 by Linda Holland