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My Childhood Garden Part Ii

Some months later, how long I cannot remember for the passing of time means little to a child, except that it always seemed so long for things to happen; but I found myself again seated in the back seat of another ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Peter Jewell

A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy To Grow Up ...

Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1947 by David Imisson

The Bathing Hole

The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by David Leckenby

My Dads Shop

I always remember my dad's tuck shop in Idle, we were the end cottage on Albion Road next to the school. I was only 5 years old when we moved away but it's funny how memories, even at such a young age, stay with you. I remember walking ...Read more

A memory of Idle in 1963 by Christine Collins Nee Furby

School Holidays At Abington Park

I was born in 1951 in Lutterworth Road, Northampton just a 5 minutes' walk from one of the most beautiful parks in the country - Abington Park. Originally part of the Wantage family estate, it boasted a ...Read more

A memory of Little Billing in 1959 by Andrew Beardsmore

Greengrocers 1899 1934 East Street: Mark & Annie Crouch

My Great Grandfather Mark Crouch ran a greengrocers shop from the front room of his thatched cottage in East Street from 1899-1934 and then after he died his wife Annie continued as a ...Read more

A memory of Westbourne in 1890 by Ruth Hooper

Calceby My Soul Mate

Calceby... I came to live here in 1947, not a country girl by birth, having lived in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, for the first fourteen years of my life. This hamlet was to become my home for the next three years, isolated ...Read more

A memory of Calceby in 1947 by Barbara Johnson

It Must Have Seemed Like Bluewater Then!

It was either a long walk or a ride on the 174 bus from Oxlow Lane shops to the Heathway. It surprises even now just what variety there was there, no need to have to travel miles to get a new shirt or the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1965 by Alan Bywaters

Balloon Woods Wollatton

Balloon Woods. Most people says it was a hell hole. Yes some parts of it was. But to a child it was good. There were more quite a few blocks. Some had four floors, these were called Tansley Walk, Bealey Walk, Hartington ...Read more

A memory of Wollaton in 1971 by Jean Smith

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