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I have a photocopy of a photograph of the General Supply Stores, Sompting, dated around 1913, showing the owners, J and A White, proudly standing outside, one with a little dog at his feet, the other holding his ...Read more

A memory of Sompting in 1910 by Sally Goodenough

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

I am trying to follow my family history and I am trying to find out more about  John Alfred Atkinson and Minnie. I was told that they might have owned or rented a shop, and they had a few children, one who was my grandad ...Read more

A memory of Evenwood Gate in 1910 by Noreen Hutchinson

The boy in the hat is my grandfather, and the girl is his sister. The shop that they are standing outside belonged to their grandfather, a well travelled gentleman born in 1832. The view is remarkably unchanged in 2008!

A memory of Kendal in 1910

My great grandfather, Albert William Hawkes, his brother Charles and their brother-in-law John Burles had a sweet manufacturing company on New St, in Chelmsford. They also had a sweet shops on Duke St, ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1910 by Kate Hawkes

My Quantrill grandparents came with a young family to live near the, then busy, cattle market in the centre of what was a row of three dwellings (now a shop). On one side was the telephone exchange and ...Read more

A memory of Hagley in 1910 by Wendy Larmour

Doris Allen is my aunt who took enormous pleasure in telling me stories of our family life in the very early 1900's. She had a long and interesting life and died peacfully at the ...Read more

A memory of Addiscombe in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

My great grandfather Vincenzo Dimambro and his brother Salvatore, had an ice cream shop and confectioners at Front Street, Langley Park c.1912/14. I visited recently, the shop is still there but not a confectioners/ice ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park in 1910 by Sharon Shaw

My late father was born in Troedrhiwfuwch on 16th Feb 1917. His name was David Thomas Harris, mainly known as Dai Tom. He lived in a terrace house later turned into a shop. He lived there with six other ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch in 1910 by David Harris