Nostalgic memories of Great Mongeham's local history

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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Mrs Minnie Wraight was my grandmotherf. When we were bombed out of our house in Deal in 1942, we stayed with her and my Grandfather, Walter Wraight, for a while then moved next door into the Old Bakery, where Teddy Weston was the baker. We stayed here until the end of the war when we were eventually able to return to our refurbished home in Deal where my father and uncle ran a taxi firm. My Grandmother was ...see more
I used to live at Brewery Farm House, on the junction between Northbourne Road and Ripple Road. I remember the old lady who ran the (then) Post Office was a Mrs. Wraite. One day my friend and I (we had been given cowboy outfits for Christmas) decided it would be a good idea to 'hold up the shop'! We gave her quite a fright, she told our parents and I don't think I could sit down for a week! We ...see more
Leonard Wraight, a Farmer & carrier, his wife Elizabeth and their son of 16, Walter Wraight lived in Great Mongeham in 1901. Leonard was the son of Richard Wraight & Ann Holmes and was born in 1842 at St Margarets At Cliffe a few miles away. There, he married Elizabeth Brown Bailey in 1867. The Publican at the Horse Shoe Inn in 1901 Great Mongeham was William Wraight, his ...see more
Mrs Sarah Norris, born Berwick, died in 1852 at Great Mongeham. Although she was a pauper, she had lived to a grand old age of 85 and was kept out of the workhouse by her daughter Mary, who cared for her and did the village's washing. In 1851 her grandaughter Mary lived next door with her husband Stephen Lawrence and their baby son William. Sarah's father William Berwick was born in the village in ...see more