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Hello Frank, I know you have sent a message to me as I managed to get a quick glance of it before it disappeared and I was unable to find it again but I did read that you were asking where abouts I lived in the Bridge. Well ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by norbet

In 1956 when I was 17 years old my brother in law built a sailing boat but neither if us had ever sailed. We took the boat on a trailer to "Kelpie's" yard on the river Ouse at Great Barford near to Bedford and were soon leaning ...Read more

A memory of Bedford by ducatee

In the days when we had "real" winters, (where did they go), Wardown Park Lake would freeze over and we would walk out over the ice and make slides. One year there were ice skaters on the lake and I borrowed an old pair that I had found ...Read more

A memory of Luton by ducatee

I grew up in Noak Hill, living on the caravan site (Cummings Hall Lane) that was behind the Bear Pub on Noak Hill Road. There was a big long lane that ran up alongside the pub and I would sneak down there and through a gap in the ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by dianebradley57

I am researching for a book and wish to get in touch with relations or friends of The Emmett family who lived at 147 New Bedford road South Luton during ww2. With thanks John

A memory of Luton by John Michael Taylor

wonderful memories of growing up in tooting. I was born in 1939 and can vaguely remember the end of the war. I remember the rationing, and often wonder how our parents managed, I was one of four, so often had hand me down clothes, I ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Faye Connolly

When I spent a couple of years training as an RNMS at Bromham Hospital, I used to live in Nurses Quarters at 1 Albany Road, Embankment, Bedford. I celebrated my 21st Birthday whilst there & my parents brought my brother & ...Read more

A memory of Bedford by John Smith

I was evacuated to Bedford during the second "Blitz" of WW II. This was the time when London was being attacked by the notorious V weapons, the Buzz Bomb and the rockets. My aunt lived in what is now Melbourne Street, but I think it ...Read more

A memory of Wootton by Roy Barnacle

I lived in Balham on Carminia Road from 1940 to 1948 and then moved to Slough. I remember the V1 and V2 attacks towards the end of the war and the gas masks us kids carried around with us all the time. On Bedford Hill I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Balham by gdfejf

My great grandparents had a fishmongers at 9 Bedford Hill,Balham some time after WW1 so 1918 ish. When bought it was in name of E S Churchly but they were called George Henry and Edith Annie Smith. Unfortunately they went out of ...Read more

A memory of Balham by suenicholls29