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His father Sydney had been a Police Inspector who served in Rhodesia, and lived in Perranporth in a property called Inyanga and was a members of ...Read more

A memory of Perranporth by Gemma Gemma

I was most surprised when my Google search revealed memories from so many years ago. I went to the Building Tech in Garratt lane when I was 13 in 1949. It was an escape tunnel for me from a ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by dwcreasey

I lived in Croydon until 1969 (the year I got married and moved away). My Dad - Len Marsh - was a Cinema Manager with the ABC chain, and we lived very near the Rex Cinema, Norbury, closed in 1962. Dad was based there for a time, but ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Colin Marsh

My Mother was born in Graces Road in Aug 1893 in her parents house with her eight Bros/Sisters until she married my father in 1918, on leave from France. In 1920 they moved to Green Lane, Thornton Heath. I was Born in 1930. On special ...Read more

A memory of Camberwell by Brian Shiers

At 26 Bellesfields road Brixton off Stockwell Road, lived James Greenfield a Police Constable, who lived with his mother Florence Sarah nee Tyler, at this address before he married Dorothy Thomas at Holy Trinity Church Tulse Hill on August the 3rd 1940.

A memory of Brixton by Gemma Gemma

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

Now living in Australia and having revisited Yealmpton in recent times, the changes are amazing. Where there used to be fields in which I played with mates, sadly houses now stand. The old bridge, church, ...Read more

A memory of Yealmpton in 1950 by Anthony Thorne

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 have recently discovered that my Great Grandfather John Main originally from Devon (a shoe maker) and then in Brixton, London as a Dairy Manager owned the Bell Hotel in Hare Street around 1905. My ...Read more

A memory of Buntingford in 1900 by Judith Irwin