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Around 1958-1959 I attended this school due to bad asthma. On the plus side, but probably due to the climate only, my asthma did seem to improve while at this school but otherwise it was one of the ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1959

"Thieves! Bloody villains and thieves, that's all they are. Makes my blood boil. I can't kill enough of the sods... no Sir!" I hadn't the heart to point out that I was actually a lover of all birds for fear ...Read more

A memory of Lower Radley

Hi. I have lots of memories of Cam House throughout the 60's. My name is Desmond Lapham. My Mother Sybil Lapham was a long time domestic in Cam and also worked in most of the other houses as was her friend Connie Bowers who worked in ...Read more

A memory of Shenfield by sandramirandabeaumont

Hello, I am after information about my maternal grandmother, who I have been told was a land lady in the early 1960's at this pub, she then moved on to the Prince of Wales burnt oak. She was known as Helen Holt and Helen McColm and she ...Read more

A memory of Tewkesbury by clarey_clare.phillips

Diary of a Toe Rag is all about my early life from Harlesden in the 1950s through to a new life in Hemel Hempstead. Check it out on Google, but here's the synopsis: More than 28,000 ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by steveriches

My mother was a land girl, she worked daily on Farmer Broomfield's farm Some of my earliest memories are of playing with other kids around an old black caravan, more a hut on wheels, provided as a shelter from the weather. Piles of ...Read more

A memory of Mile Oak in 1947 by Bonny Cother

I visited Knock often as a child as my aunt and her family, the Blaylocks, lived there. In ancient times the village was called Knock Shalcok and belonged to the Veteriponts and Cliffords. In 1860 the main landowners ...Read more

A memory of Knock in 1860 by Marcia Kell

I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always managed to provide us with 2 weeks' holiday somewhere. How we came to holiday in Wroxall is still a bit of a ...Read more

A memory of Wroxall by Roy Beiley

Hi, I am writing to see if anyone remembers the history of 'Cows Lane', Little Sutton. Many years ago a land-owner called Benich owned the lane, it was originally called Benich Lane, does anyone have any memories of this or old maps ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Linda Mccully Was Waring

During the Second World War a land mine fell by parachute in Courtleet Bottom, somewhere near the junction with Rydal Drive, I believe they called in the navy bomb disposable team. I went to Barnehurst School, Mrs Mumford was the head ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst in 1940 by Bert Collins