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I used to visit two ladies in Bradley during the war years,Arvind and Bessie Walker. Bessie taught me at Stonefield junior school and always rode a bicycle to school.When I visited her home she used to take me on the back of her ...Read more

A memory of Bilston by clarepstockton

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

I have just found this site and was amazed at the photo of the Welfare Hall circa 1960. My dad, Henry Dilkes, and his great friend Sid Robinson were the mainstays of the pantos in the early 1960s, with Henry ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe in 1962 by Robert Dilkes

OUR HISTORY AS A COMPANY To get all the information I've had to go back to the very beginning, here goes. Sarah Ann Kershaw born 1855 married James Roscoe becoming Sarah Ann Roscoe. ...Read more

A memory of Little Lever by jmilly75

Hello, Sadly, as a Yank, I have no memory of West Lulworth but I'd love to learn more from those who do and/or those who can refer me to the old, buried secrets about the Smugglers vs. the Revenuers and Coast Guard back in the ...Read more

A memory of Lulworth Camp by cwoodriff

We where often told not to go there,as it was too big and we would get lost.Of course on a lovely day what a nice place to go exploring.Running up the hill and rolling back down. At the bottom of the hill you ...Read more

A memory of Bradley

I remember going to Gwytherin a few times when I was a little girl with my parents and gran in the 1950's. My gran's uncle, Thomas Edwards, used to run the Red Lion a very long time ago. After that his daughters, Kitty and Jinny had ...Read more

A memory of Gwytherin by Ann Bradley

I must have around 7 years old when my mother used to take me along Bramley Town Street, where in those times it was back to back houses and shops. I was taken regularly to the ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1958 by Sam Hamblett

I was Christened at Brimington Bethel Chapel in July 1945, for some unknown reason, on a Tuesday. From my early memories I recall attending Bethel every Sunday twice a day and either walking it or catching the bus ...Read more

A memory of Brimington in 1948 by Geoffrey Marsden

Researching family history led me to Charlotte Bradley and Josiah Hawkes from Great Waltham. They married in 1871. Charlotte was a servant to the Oddie family and Josiah was an agricultural labourer from a ...Read more

A memory of Great Waltham in 1870 by Sandra Roberts