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I am 86 but still remember the time at Farley Croft during WWII. My siblings and I were evacuated to Westerham in 1939. Around 1942/46 my sisters Rose, Sylvia and I were taken from the billet we were in and put in Farley Croft which ...Read more

A memory of Westerham by rbbrett2004

I remember my mum and dad taking me to see Mr and Mrs Farley, they lived in a lovely house with apple trees,I also think there were chickens, because I seem to remember collecting the eggs, I especially remember their ...Read more

A memory of Beckley in 1955 by Jane Green

My dad was in the Canadian Air Force (RCAF) stationed in Langar (born in England though) but my family lived at 16 Douglas Close just outside Radcliffe. I remember walking daily to the ...Read more

A memory of Radcliffe on Trent in 1960 by John Reid Wilkinson

I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more

A memory of Madeley in 1949 by First Name Last Name

I played in the standing corn stooks behind our house, had my first pony/horse ride at Dixon's farm where my horse went berserk in a potato field, so I was put onto and stayed on a horse lead. I flew my ...Read more

A memory of Wolverhampton by Alan Hickman

I was born in Epsom and lived in Belmont all my childhood. I attended Cotswold Road Primary School and also the Sunday School that was there on a Sunday. The building was knocked down in the 1980s, it was opened in the 1890s and I can ...Read more

A memory of Belmont by Catherine Johnston

I was born in Kibblesworth in 1945 but my parents and I moved back to our flat in the Redheugh Area of Gateshead when I was about two or three. But mam put me on the bus every Sunday morning to ...Read more

A memory of Kibblesworth in 1953 by Margaret Gale

I spent the first eleven years of my life in Tottenham. We lived above the PDSA dispensary in Seven Sisters Road. My father worked for the PDSA as a vet, and I remember very clearly the queues of people waiting to have their ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1950 by Jacqueline Dagnall

The Barley Mow, we went up there for my sister's hen night, and ended up at the caravan park down Green Lane. I have just visited it, well last year actually, and didn't realize it was such a lovely park, I ...Read more

A memory of West Horsley in 1970 by Loraine Roles

I moved to Burnt Oak in May 1940, to 84 Fortescue Road. I was 4. My memories are like a batch of video clips, as follows: Moving in. Removal men trying to get a wardrobe into the front bedroom by hauling ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1940 by David Brusselen