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Ebbsfleet is now home to the Ebbsfleet international train station, but most people will not know of its history. An excavation at Ebbsfleet revealed mammouth fossils and a Stone Age site where found ...Read more

A memory of Ebbsfleet International Sta in 2007

Having stayed with relatives at Port Quinn on Wednesday 12 September, we drove to Tintagel staying overnight in an hotel, just out of the town. We spent a wonderful Thursday in Tintagel and enjoyed a terrific time viewing this ...Read more

A memory of Tintagel in 2007 by Theresa Eagles

There is a beautiful wide paved area at Teignmouth Triangle which is a natural focal point to meet people and maybe sit and chat on one of the many benches nearby. This was the ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk

Where Broughty Castle guards the mouth of the River Tay In the tower we climbed up a weathered stone stairway To look far over the fair land of our fathers Later you took a photograph of me at a quay in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughty Ferry in 2004 by Sonja Nic Rafferty

To reply to Sandra, the 3 skulls have now been replaced behind a safer glass case. I live in Goldthorpe but my husband's family share some links with Hickleton from the family branch of his mother's side. His grandmother had some ...Read more

A memory of Hickleton in 2009 by Marie Jones

I have been interested in tracing my family tree for many years and my computer is full of vast amounts of information regarding my forebears. I have lived in Mexico for many years but back in 2007, ...Read more

A memory of Chipping Campden in 2007

When I lived in Kelloholm, I lived on Polmeur Road close to the short cut from Polmeur to Greystone Avenue. My mum and dad Jessie and Johnny Grierson moved into 49 Polmeur Road in 1948 one month after I was born. My mum and dad used ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 2007 by Jimmy Grierson

While exploring my British Roots in 2003 with my then 80+years-old mother we were blessed with the opportunity offered by the owner of the Woolstapler House, pictured in the lower right foreground of this ...Read more

A memory of Cirencester in 2003

I always go to the beach and I did when I was little and I remember a type of building on the beach opposite from the beach terrace cafe. I always thought it was castle ruins, it was made of big stones and it looked like it had ...Read more

A memory of Lytham St Anne's in 2005 by Eleanor Wood

It rained. It truly rained absolutely all day. Although Whitethorn Morris were booked for three dance spots in the street plus an Arena show there was no chance whatever for either ...Read more

A memory of Chippenham in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk