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Roughly that time, I went to school there when it was Ashley Cross Girls School. I had many a happy time there. One of our cookery teachers left to have a baby then went on to teach at the Girls Grammar School in ...Read more

A memory of Poole in 1974 by Virginia Jewell (Wellstead)

I currently work at Warwick House in Palmerston Road (top of Queens Road). I would be interested to know if anyone knows who lived in the house prior to the Architects purchasing the building in 1962, the current Partners believe ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Caroline Bowers

Left Potter St School at 14 years of age. Two years later, without any particular aptitude or skills, I found my way to Marabelle Fabrics. Styled as a wharehouseman, I cycled from Field-End road everyday except Sundays. The ...Read more

A memory of Northwood in 1948 by Peter Giles

I was born Heswall 1947. Mother's maiden name was Cooper. The family ran the first shop on the right as you came into Irby from Thingwall during the 2nd World War. Eunice McClure was my mother's bridesmaid and became my godmother. We as ...Read more

A memory of Irby by Frederick Ashley

I remembering exploring the back streets of New Milton, Ashley, Bashley and Barton on Sea on my bike as a 10 year old. Phelps supermarket was mum's main food shopping weekly destination. Burgess News Agency was where she would ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1968 by Colin Burnell

During the early Second World War years there was considerable construction along the Barton beach and the cliff top to hinder any possible designs of the dastardly twins on our rural paradise. These constructions used to be a major ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1951 by Roger Williams

I was born at 150 Rossmore Road in 1956. I attended Heatherlands school from 1960 to 1965. Classmates I remember include:- Alistair Rogers, (later attended Poole Grammar School) Andrew Spicer, (Lived ...Read more

A memory of Parkstone by yodelpie

Sadly Doreen Aspley passed away today. She had her 96th birthday last Sunday

A memory of Great Haseley by Caroline Pickett

My mother remarried in 1962 to a lovely man who lived in Ashley Avenue, Cheriton. With my husband and our two children we always used to visit and once a week I went to visit on my own. We had some lovely times there, my ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton in 1962 by Julia Deane

By Michael Savage A reunion of the Horncastle Homes children and the staff was held at the Town Hall (Drill Hall) July 20 1989. Almost 400 people attended the event. “The atmosphere was really ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle in 1958