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I was born at 27 Croft Court, Smallthorne, in 1948, my father was born at 8 Back Crof in 1920. From when he left school in around 1934, he went to work in the coal mines. During the war years he went to join the army and ...Read more

A memory of Smallthorne by John Turner

I have always loved Highmoor; my father, John Tudor Mills, was born there, at Satwell, in 1924, his mother Doris Tudor having been born opposite St Paul's church in Highmoor in 1900; her parents, George Tudor, of ...Read more

A memory of Highmoor Cross by Roger Mills

I was born and brought up in Barbaraville, spending the first 27 years of my life there before moving to Inverness. I will always remember it as an idyllic place to grow up in.. Many a happy hour was spent ...Read more

A memory of Barbaraville in 1970

Memories from that long ago tend to stick in the back of the mind until an association brings them out. Being a small child, the village green at Bearsted seemed gigantic and the village pond was just a pond. We used to paddle in the pond ...Read more

A memory of Bearsted by Beverley Simmons

My grandparents, Albert and Marjorie Walker, moved into the Red Lion in 1954. Following my grandfather's death in 1967 my grandmother continued as landlady until her retirement in ...Read more

A memory of Lowick Bridge in 1954 by Angela Athersmith

I was born at Coullie Udny on 8th September 1941 in my grandparent's house, their name was Burnett and he was a grieve at Coullie. The Cottar House they stayed in is now called Burnett Cottage. I lived there for 17 years and attended ...Read more

A memory of Udny Green in 1941

Looking at modern Byfield I am truly amazed and impressed with the changes that have taken place. I was born in village in1942 went to Byfield School and then Towcester Grammar School until 1960. The village was very self ...Read more

A memory of Byfield by rogerwevans

Gosh, I am so old, I remember the time that the trams (696 and 698) were changed for electric trolley buses of the same numbers. Does anyone but me remember the horse trough beside the clock tower?. before the war ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath by George Rolfe

I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop outside ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Derek Jones

My Family came to Purbrook in 1965/1966,as they needed a big house for all their growing children,and I joined them in 67. My memories of this wonderful &Quaint village you can laugh but it holds many memories for me it had about ...Read more

A memory of Purbrook