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I was born at Corner House, at the bottom of Aerodrome Rd, Hawkinge on 31st August 1936. My parents were the local newsagents in Canterbury Rd, backing onto the famous airfield.  I have vivid childhood memories of the war ...Read more

A memory of Folkestone in 1940 by David Pepin

I remember there used to be trolley buses through the high street, this would have been in the 1940s or 50s, and there was a lending library on the high street that you paid to take a book out. Also a grocers called Williams Brothers , ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet by Linda Smith

These cottages are now known as Ryders, but it appears that in Edwardian times the place (or maybe this corner) may also have been known as "Seven Trees Well": I have a postcard with this picture on it sent on 7th May 1906 to a ...Read more

A memory of Okewood Hill in 1900 by Gary Crouch

I am not sure if this kind of opportunity attracts those who feel anger at a perceived or real unfairness, during their childhood years, and/or those who have a tendency to dwell on the negative but I'd really ...Read more

A memory of Bushey by Laurence Blight

The passageway led from Clayhill Road all the way through the village, and came out on the Reading Road, some 2 miles away, the passageway was used by us children daily as a short cut to school, and it went by ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1955 by Andrew Cooper

When living in Bere Alston there were trains still running to Gunnislake over this beautiful viaduct. Made of concrete blocks which were made on site. It took four years to build and was opened in 1908. A wagon lift made of iron hauled ...Read more

A memory of Calstock by Sarah Cooper

We used to rent the bottom cottage down from the Co-op and the top house pub. My younger brother had a massive crush on the barmaid of the middle house. She was called Marylin (he is called Ben). Is she still there? I believe ...Read more

A memory of St John's Chapel in 1985 by Paul Simpson

Vaig viure a Aston Cantlow durant 4 mesos des del desembre de 1968 a casa dels meus amics David & Jo Edkins. Sóc de Barcelona i volia millorar el meu anglès. L'estiu del 2018 vaig visitar i dinar a The King's Head però vaig ...Read more

A memory of Aston Cantlow by tramsaez

In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of ...Read more

A memory of Llanfairfechan by Phil Rwad

THE STIPERSTONES T’was long ago the Ludlow people vexed the Devil very sore He vowed to stone their homes and steeples until they were no more On Cranberries Hill he then collected his apron full of rocks and stones With these ...Read more

A memory of Stiperstones by Angela Bolton