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I have postcards of Long Marston circa 1914/15 sent by my grandfather while he was serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers (WW1) .On the back of one he has written "this is where we parade every morning, ...Read more

A memory of Long Marston in 1910 by John Rick

This is Castle Hill House bought that year by Augustus Brandt of William Brandt's and Sons bank, my Great Grandfather. Mostly now demolished, and the rest converted into flats.

A memory of Bletchingley in 1910 by Jason Mullins

Matthew Kirton, owner of Walbottle brick works, used to arrange for this river ferry to take Sunday School and other outings down river to North Shields and back, the ferry was called 'Blue Bonnet'.

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by David Tooke

My Godmother Ruth Pallister came from Shildon. Her father and mother owned a shop there, and she would recount the story of a bull or steer that escaped from the local slaughter house, and pushed its head through the shops front ...Read more

A memory of Shildon in 1910 by Iain Chapman

After a time Mother married Charles Gamble, we called him Pop.  He left the Merchant Navy and went to work on the Estate for my Grandfather. We got a house at Ospringe it was next door to a water mill. The water used ...Read more

A memory of Ospringe in 1910 by George Allen

My grandfather, George Frederick Dawson (Jan 9 1896 - Aug 7 1986) was born in Linton-On-Ouse. His parents were Frederick Dawson (b Yorkshire 1855, d Yorkshire 1945) and Elizabeth (Carter), (b Scotland, place and date unknown, d ...Read more

A memory of Linton Lock in 1910

My Dad grew up in Portholland, one of seven children. There were five boys and the stories he could tell. The boys would go out at night and splash water on windows and the next day listen to the residents talk about the ...Read more

A memory of Portholland in 1910 by Sinclair Hugh

My mother was from Newtown in Cardiff, near the docks. It was a community of very poor Irish immigrants. My great grandmother had a job cleaning the City Hall. She would walk through Cardiff in the early morning and do her ...Read more

A memory of Cardiff in 1910 by Marian Foot

Ebenezer Owen Davies was a carpenter in 1914 who took in my father, Thomas William Banks aged 14 from the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol - I am endeavouring to find out more about what happened to my ...Read more

A memory of Bryngwyn in 1910 by Maureen Hawthorn

In January 1917, my grandfather, Percy Smith, a young soldier from Australia, was on leave from the Front in France. He visited a family in Camelford, and this is the letter he wrote home to his sister. I would love to know ...Read more

A memory of Camelford in 1910 by Sally Edsall