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My great great grandfather was Richard Thurston and I believe that his family lived at the pub about 1845. They had several children Deborah,John Palmer,Mary Jane,Richard and William Mumford (thurston) ...Read more

A memory of Old Newton by wallywallisau

I was born in Catley Lanehead in 1955 and lived in the back of the shop at the top of Smallshaw Road with my mum and dad. My nan Agnes lived across the road from the Chapel further down and not long after we moved a few doors down from ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale by susanbarrett2015

During the course of research I have traced this name in my family tree back to 1689 and it looks like my direct branch all lived in the St Agnes area up to around 1800,many of them at Skinners Bottoms. I am ...Read more

A memory of Skinner's Bottom by jeremy.smith112

I lived in 2 Oak Villas as a child from 1960-1966 then my last name was Burge....I now live in the USA and would like to hear from anybody who lived at Common Side the same time as me. My grandmother who now has passed was ...Read more

A memory of Westbourne in 1960 by Josephine Milburn

My husband Chistopher John Hill was born in Scarborough. His Grandma, Mary Gloyne, ran a small Guest House there 61 Ramsey Street, after her husband, Percy Gloyne, was killed two days before the end of World War 1. She brought ...Read more

A memory of Scarborough by Margaret Ann Hill

My great grandmother, Phyllis Marley (nee Young) lived at 1 Sheepwash Bank in the early 1900s. Always known as the house with the monkey puzzle tree in the front garden. She was married to Edwin Marley, who ...Read more

A memory of Guide Post by Susan Laws

Is the pile of sand the remains or the beginning of the Toc-H altar we used to, as children, help build on the beach for sunday service with Toc-H? When the beach huts blew down and we skipped school to help clear up, ...Read more

A memory of Perranporth in 1955

I was brought up in the village from the age of two years until I left at the age of 16 years, we lived at 16 Quarry Close. I went to school at Woodville. I came from a large family we was poor, didn't have much and lived in a three ...Read more

A memory of Stour Provost in 1969 by Mary Misselbrook

My name is Agnes Mawhinney, my fondness memory is going to the old primary school on Symington Road North with my brother Arthur. The class rooms were big with big high ceilings, the toilets were outside ...Read more

A memory of Symington

I would sometimes go to Downing Street if I had a day in London but I always worked at Chartwell. They were very nice people to work for, Mrs Churchill never wanted me to leave, I can't remember why I did. Mother, ...Read more

A memory of Ledsham in 1930 by George Allen