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I was born in Flexbury Park Nursing Home, Bude in Nov 1942. My parents lived at the time in Breakwater Road. Does anyone know where this nursing home was ? It appears that when my father returned on leave from the RAF they asked St Michael and ...Read more

A memory of Bude by gthompson33

I first went to Sheepwash in the summer of 1945 with my parents and girl friend. I was 15 at the time. We stayed at the Half Moon Hotel for two weeks. Because it was towards the end of WWII my father ...Read more

A memory of Sheepwash in 1944 by Sheila Bartlett

I used to go with my 'gang' (Tuska, Boots, Bude, Pat ect) to Baddow Meads cafe and play Buddy Holly etc on the juke box. My godmother was caretaker of the Congregational chuch next to the bridge by the river (now pulled down), and shops ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1959 by Pamela Clarke

My wife and I moved to Powick in the 1980s. Dating back to the late 1500s the whole row of (now four) houses were used by Cromwell as a hospital during the Civil war. It had no central heating and during our stay there we added that, ...Read more

A memory of Powick in 1991 by Fred Dager Brown

I was born late 1959 at Little Thorpe Maternity Hospital. I lived in Arthur Street with my parents Alan and Ada Robson and my newly widowed grandfather Bob Mckee. My grandmother, Lizzie, sadly passed away a year ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1964 by Gail Hann

Hi I went to st.bedes 1966/1970 headmaster mr.collinge Best teacher sid sheen geography!! Anyone remember him? I was dawn Boden friends helen mcabe , Margaret atherton. Remember Ada but not surname. Also Joe Boyle English Mick Read maths

A memory of Ormskirk by dawn.hann

This is the year I married Muriel Smeaton, also from " the colliery". We lived behind the butchers shop in Bede Street before moving to Peterlee. I joined RAF and moved away from the area but still remember the happy times we ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery in 1951 by Tom Liddle

I was lucky enough to attend Bede Hall. We had a terrific staff team in those days - Clive Bell, Peter Dixon, the late Annie Woodward et al. The whole experience was mind blowing, as the mix of administered and self ...Read more

A memory of Billingham in 1967 by Dot Laird

I went to st Roses convent in Stroud when I was eleven years old . The boarding house was up the lane called merrymeads. It was named st Bedes . I can remember going to the Holy Rosary church which was next to the convent . Every ...Read more

A memory of Stroud by Kathleen Ohara

I remember reading about The Welsh Collier Llandaff in about 1898 trying for the safe haven of Summerleaze Beach being wrecked on the reef at the back of The Breakwater a year ago she was saved from a similar fate at in another ...Read more

A memory of Bude by warspite2013