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My Great Grandfather Alfred Saunders (1863-1944) looked after the Volunteer Arms before he semi-retired, he also had an interest in the Forest King Pub and the Percy Arms at Chilworth (plus he had shares in Hodgsons ...Read more

A memory of Blackheath in 1900 by Pamela Patten

In 1953 I used to visit my in-laws who lived at 19 Rumbold Road, Fulham. I remember when we walked along Kings Road towards the football ground there was an antique shop that had an unusual armchair in the window. It was carved ...Read more

A memory of Chelsea by Vera Otto

Hi, Herbert here. As a very small boy, locked away in my head, I suddenly remember street lights; they were funny street lights with arms. Well, every night a man used to light them when it were going dark -in those ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1947

My mother is Olwen Jones (nee Haigh) of the old post office in Bodorgan from 1937 to 1953 when she got married to Vivian Madoc Jones of Newborough. Her parents Randolph and Janet Haigh ran the post office from ...Read more

A memory of Bodorgan by Alison Scott

My name is David Jones, and I remember this street well - opposite & to the right (out of pic) was the local dairyman, who used to deliver milk from the back of a dog-cart.. Further behind the Capel was the Workmans ...Read more

A memory of Glanaman in 1946 by xpara

I was born in Isleworth, at 10 Hall Road to be exact and my parents lived in this very house for 50 years.   I remember this house very well, at the time it was owned, as were others by the local council.  Just down the road is the ...Read more

A memory of Isleworth in 1960 by Mary Evans

I was at school there from 1956 to 1963, first at the Old Primary School then the new one with Head Mistress Miss E Watson and her elder sister, 'tremendous old school' method teachers. I lived at ...Read more

A memory of Skelton by globnet_2010

During a holiday with Grandparents in the Newcastle area the family also went to Ulgham Park Farm to spend a long weekend with Dad's uncle, Ned Allen and his family. In the fields my sister and I 'helped' Dad ...Read more

A memory of Ulgham Park by dotamos

Some time in York I'd spend an hour or so within the Minster itself, and for me it was not fascination that brought me into the place; it was because its past history which was revealed. Take the Jews, many of which had came from Israel ...Read more

A memory of York by Roland Mitchell