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I have a lot of happy memories of living in Peterlee. My mam, dad and me moved there when I was 6 months old from Hartlepool. We lived in Bailey Rise, a new house then. I can still remember the smell from the Tudor crisp factory which ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1955 by Carol Bone

I lived in Church Lane, Kingsbury at Elvin Court and went to Tylerscroft after leaving Fryent infant and junior school. I have very fond memories of Tylers as we called it back in them days. I remember Mr ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1957 by Ray Hathaway

What a difficult thing it is to write down all you want to! So much in our memories ... I am the curator of the Essex Fire Museum which is based at Grays fire station in Hogg Lane. I was born in Grays in June ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Roger Pickett

I lived with my sister, I was 9 when I first stayed with her. I spent many hours on the beach at Jury's Gap loving the feel of the sand and sun, it was safe in those days. Our dog, Whiskey was with me a lot of the time, although he used ...Read more

A memory of Camber in 1959 by Jo Woolven

During the war years in 1940, we moved from Doncaster to Rossington. My father worked on the railway and felt we would be safer in the country. We lived at 254 Gatehouse Crossing and later in 1948, at 383 Gatehouse, ...Read more

A memory of Finningley in 1940 by Beryl Goforth

When I first came here the NHS hadn't begun, I think my mum was asked to pay 7/6d per week! Visiting was 2hrs on the 1st Sunday of the month only. Just as well really because my parents had to travel from 3 miles south of Dorking. I ...Read more

A memory of Alton by Terence Mayne

I lived at 21 Shoreham Road, I remember playing in the woods before they started cutting them down. Hanging around the shops at night, going to Chislehurst caves to see the bands play and I remember what it was like before the ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1960 by David Coveney

I started work in the plant room as one of the engineers in the centre in 1967 with the rest of the staff and the direction of Ken Farraway,Chief Engineer and Bob Finch, assistant Chief Engnineer. After a time Bob ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1967 by Ron Arrowsmith

My grandparents, Arthur Andrew Rush & Lilian Maud Rush 9nee Sayers0 had this pub, The Ship Inn, from 1940 -1955. They had two daughters, my Mother, Lilian Beatrice Gough (nee Rush) & Gladys Barker (nee ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Peter Gough

I worked in the old CAD room at Tooting Police Station in 2006, it was an amazing place with bomb proof windows. We worked through the night; on my first night there was a gang fight and a youth got ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Alice Frances