Kingsdown, The Swan Inn c.1955
Photo ref: K87002
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A Selection of Memories from Kingsdown

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Kingsdown

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I was stationed at RAF Fairford in February 1955. I went to a dance and saw my wife Laura dancing. I knew then and there I had to meet her, so asked her for a dance and from that moment on we became a couple, and a month later I asked her to marry me and she said yes. We were married at the Bristol Registry Office on June 4th, 1955. I was in the US Air Force and ...see more
Salmon Street was where I was born, and Kingsdown was where my family lived for at least 140 years. Salmon Street Walk Ler Street never changed that is until the Second World War when we were well and truly bombed. There is so much to say about Kingsdown, too much to put in this small space.