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I do remember that the signpost on the main road pointing towards Bratton had it as 'Bratton Seamore". My first home was Bratton Hill Cottage, since demolished and the land developed. My Father worked for ...Read more

A memory of Bratton Seymour by Steven Brunt

I was born here in June 1947. My mother was a Yarlington girl who married a farmers boy from Bratton Seamore. If they had waited one more year perhaps i would have been brought into this world under the new National Health Service!

A memory of Templecombe by Steven Brunt

Early years - Nurse Britton was a friend as she was to most I believe. I was too young to be exact with memories but my gran lived opposite Whitemans shop which got hit by a bomb in the Second World War. I remember the garage which ...Read more

A memory of Bungay in 1951 by Gerald Wase

Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1956 by Peter Haigh

This photograph is of St Edmund Hall, affectionately known as 'Teddy Hall', which by common consent is the oldest seat of learning in the University of Oxford. Founded in the early 13th century by St Edmund of Abingdon, who lectured in ...Read more

A memory of Oxford in 1973 by Peter Britton

Descendants of George Clayton Generation No. 1 1. GEORGE1 CLAYTON was born 1788 in Pickhill, West Roxby, Yorkshire England. He married ANN MUDD 08 December 1806 in Pickhill, West Roxby, Yorkshire England. She was ...Read more

A memory of Pickhill in 1860 by Orrin Clayton

I was born in Fleetwood in 1936 and lived there until 1959 when I left to emigrate to Australia. I was brought up in Byron St living with my parents George and Dolly Arkwright ,I attended Blackinston primary school then moved to Chaucer Rd ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by bebron81

About 1949/50 I was 10.The ponds had dried up because there was no water coming from the spring in the corner where the Grove entrance met the High Street. There used to be a set of steps that went down into the pond at that point.If my ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton by Tony Arkell

As a child living in Bratton during the war there was no sense that it was going on lucky for us, but I do remember a goup of people coming into the village and instructing us how to take care of any injuries that might happen. They ...Read more

A memory of Bratton in 1943 by John Coleman

Many years ago I was a window cleaner and would often do my rounds on many of the small estates in Monk Bretton, many of my customers would bring me cups of tea and sandwiches out and in one case an Italian lady invited me ...Read more

A memory of Monk Bretton in 1978 by Roland Mitchell