Memories

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Memories From My Childhood

I moved to Matching Green in 1944. My mother, Gladys Hoxley (nee Curry), ran the village store, called "the Stores" which had previously been run by my grandfather and grandmother, Ernest and Edith Curry. It was ...Read more

A memory of Matching Green in 1944 by Rosemary Cockrill

My Uncle Aunt And Cousins Lived Here

My uncle and aunt  lived here from roughly 1948 to 1958.  We lived on Oare Common and visited them at the Castle regularly. In the living room was a large hook and apparently someone in the past was hung from ...Read more

A memory of Hermitage in 1948

A Visit To My Birthplace

Delighted to find this photo. I was born in Grimsbury Castle in 1946. I came to America at age three and know very little about the history of the Castle and surrounding area. I did visit the Castle in 1971. The ...Read more

A memory of Hermitage in 1946 by Veronica Murry

A Strong Memory

I was born in 1931. During the war I spent about 1 year in Walkford, at the home of a great aunt in the village of Walkford. The maternal ancestry of my family is in Walkford. My great aunt had a house on I guess the Ringwood road. ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1943 by Patricia Hardwicke