Memories

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Fred And Dorcas

My Great Grandparents were Fred & Dorcas Beeching, and both died in 1915, they lived in Dunks Green, and two of their sons Sydney and William were killed in the Great War, their names appear on the memorial stone in Plaxtol i think. Does anyone have memories of Dunks Green from any years. Brian

A memory of Dunk's Green in 1910 by Brian Beeching

My Mother's Memories Of Ospringe

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

Wylam Train

August 2012. Its a small place Newcastle how about this for a coincidence. I was out on a walk between Wylam and Newburn and as I passed the Tidal Stone (which I mention in my stories) I met this man walking his dog, we chatted and I ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1910 by Jimmy Burrows

A Young Girls Memories Of Ww1

When my Mother passed away in 1999 I had the unhappy task of clearing out her Warden Controlled little flat. Amongst her possessions I came across an old history project I had done at school in the 1970s for which I ...Read more

A memory of Handsworth in 1910

Location Of Farnham Streets

My mother went to St Polycarps school from 1913 to 1914. The address I was able to find from the schools archives where they lived was firstly at Beech Villas, Park Rd, Farnham and then Figgs Yard, Long Garden Walk. I ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1910 by Margaret Hughes