Memories

89 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.

18 Happy Years

We moved into Avon Carrow in November 1991, just after the M40 motorway had been extended to Warwick, and started the most rewarding living experience of our mature lives. The Carrow has an interesting history for such a ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett in 2009 by Ian Hiley

1861 Leese Hall, Near Leeming Area

Hi, does anyone know of a Leese Hall, I presume on the Leese Road (which is still present running along the A1 on google maps). My relative, through marriage to my great aunt; I'm helping trace his family - the ...Read more

A memory of Pickhill by Hayley Forsyth

1940's Wortley

The photograph shows the entry to Hell Mill Lane (sometimes called Riley Road) which runs along the valley of the Little Avon towards Ozleworth; to the right behind the trees is Wortley Farm, occupied in the 1940's by the ...Read more

A memory of Wortley by rontavender

A Jones Tobbaconists

My mother worked in this shop part time on the sweet counter. My father drove the wholesale delivery van during holiday relief

A memory of Alton in 1960 by Andrew Stedman

A Village I Love

I was born in Edlington in 1940 but was soon given to my aunties Joan and Lilley Desborough to be looked after as my mother already had a child by my future step dad. I lived at 39 St. Thomas Road, second to end house, my next ...Read more

A memory of Stainforth in 1946 by Bryan Maloney

Alton High Street Tobaconist   A Jones

I was born at Southbrook, Lenten Street in 1949. Father ran a shop called A Jones Tobacconist on High Street, which had earlier been my grandfather's (Arthur Jones - known as Jack). I went to school at Mayfield, ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1958 by Andrew (Andy) Jones

Ann Maria Davies / Coldicot Born In 1876 In Ullenhall

Hi, I'm looking for the descendants of Isreal Davis and Emma Parsons or any information about them. Isreal and Emma Davis or Davies lived in Little Alne in 1911. I don't have the address. Their ...Read more

A memory of Ullenhall by jmdroots

Barwick House School

Barwick House as shown in the photographs on this site is sadly no more although the building is still standing and is now being used as luxury apartments, this is as a result of the school (which previously occupied it) going ...Read more

A memory of Barwick in 1979 by Graeme Claridge

Barwick House, Hell On Earth

Bloody awful wicked place that needs more investigation. My brother like many of the others suffered greatly at the hands of MOD run schools, that were experimental failures. My brothers life has been ruined by his unfortunate ...Read more

A memory of Barwick by sslade36

Bathampton Tea Gardens

This is a view of the Bathampton Tea Gardens which occupied the old buildings of Bathampton Mill, and the picture is taken from Bathampton Bridge. On the O.S. Somerset sheet XIV Revision of 1930 with additions in 1938. The ...Read more

A memory of Bathampton in 1959 by First Name Last Name