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My grandparents, Daniel" Pentir "Thomas and his wife "Momo", lived not far from Station Road. As you went over the bridge (see photo) towards Gwaun-cae-gurwen, on the left was the "War Memorial", followed by the Rugby Club on the right. This was followed by a Carpentery where coffins were made! At this point there was a footbridge across the Amman leading to the rugby field and the open-air swimming pool. As you ...see more
In the early 1950s my uncle, William Grosvenor, was warden at this camp site. As a young girl I can remember visiting him and my aunt and helping or hindering with campers arrivals.
It is so nice to discover an unspoiled pub that dates from centuries long ago. My wife Elizabeth and I frequently make long motorway trips from our home in Devon towards London and beyond. For a change from the dull and uninspiring motorway service stations we sometimes choose to turn off the M4 and seek out a nearby town for a lunch stop. On this occasion we found ...see more
My grandparents lived in Simpson Street and auntie in Elizabeth Street. I am wondering if anyone remembers Garden Terrace, and the old school in John Street where my grandma worked? My grandfather was killed aboard the 'Lunula' in 1941 and his name was Edward Occulstone. He is listed at that time as living in Margarets Road and his name is on the cenotaph at Whitley Bay. I remember my uncle's cottage ...see more
Llandudno is one of my favourite places in the world! As a child and early teenager every summer family holiday was spent here. This photo of the top reminds me of knickerbocker glory ice creams with the huge swirl of cream on the top, rock grafitti on the hillside (go there - they still do this!), picknics, walks, tram rides. It was wonderful stuff!
I remember this hospital with mixed emotions. As a child of 5/6 in 1953/4 I was taken by my Dad weekly to visit my mother who had spinal fusion surgery - I think Mr Rose was the name of the surgeon. Spinal fusion surgery was still new - and risky - and Mum was a patient there for at least 12 months. I don't remember which ward she was on but it could easily have been one of the two in the photo. The ...see more
My Dad was posted to Tidworth in 1953 and I joined the choir in this church. Practice was twice a week, and you didnt miss it!! Two services on Sunday, morning and evening and we didnt miss them either, unless sickness intervened. Our choir master was Mr K. Burnett who was also the organist, very talented. The padre when I joined had two daughters, but I cant remember the name. There were some wonderful ...see more
Hi, my name is Lorraine, my surname was Humphreys at the time I spent my early childhood in Horden with my nana and grandad, both sadly gone now. I lived at 90 Seventh Street, I went to school on the top road we used to call 'the tin tops'. The girls I remember were Lesley Barron, Lisa Edwards, Linda Huntingdon to name a few. I later moved to Braemar Terrace. My memories of Seventh Street and living with my nana, I ...see more
I remember so many people from Abertysswg that it was great to find this website and know there are people writing about the village I shall always think of as ' home '. Had fate been kinder to me I most probably would never have left but things happen that make us make decisions and mine was to leave Abertysswg. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if I had stayed in the village but it is so good ...see more
I attended Downham Market Grammar School between 1953 and 1956, when I left to start work. I lived at Fincham, but was a friend of Cedric Peto (whom we nickmamed Pedro). His parents kept the village shop and I used to visit them regularly as a friend of their son. The Petos had a radiogram - the first one I ever came across. Being the 1950s it was the start of the Rock-and-Roll era ,Cedric and I were great fans of ...see more
My first posting in the RAF was 1954 - 1956 to the radio unit set in a field above Lower Winchendon. I was billeted with a farmer and his wife, Mr and Mrs Blake. There were five of us scattered throughout the village. Happy days.
My grandfather's uncle - Harry Briggs - ran this hotel with his wife Isabella. They were there in the 1911 census. Does anyone have information about the demise of the hotel? Any information at all would be extremely helpful in my family history research.
I was born at Bragborough Hall in 1941 when it was used as a maternity home for mothers from London. My mother came from one of the nearby villages. If anyone has any memories of the hall I would love to know.
I lived between Boscombe and Southbourne from 1954 until 1956 and I remember some family outings in our very first car - a black Ford Prefect saloon. Trips into the Dorset countryside were exciting for me and also for my father who had never taken a driving test because he had a licence before tests were introduced! Sometimes we went through Canford and my father told me it was a wonderful ...see more
Just south of Frodsham are some natural caves in the red sandstone rock. They appear to have been enlarged in the Middle Ages and are a rare surviving example of mediaeval mining. I had never heard of these caves - or even Frodsham itself - unitl I moved to the Manchester area in 1966 at the age of 21. I knew no one so I joined a group of young people from Altrincham & Sale Young Conservatives who seemed to ...see more
I have really good memories of Martock. During the Second World War, some time in the 1940s, I along with some other boys from Farningham Home For Little Boys was evacuated to Yeovil and Martock. We were taken to the Church Hall in Martock and sat in threes around some small tables. We sat there a bit forlorn thinking we would be split up. Then lo and behold a Mr Rogers came in and went straight ...see more
I moved here from Glasgow in 1968. We lived in Donaldson Drive. I had 2 brothers, Brian and Archie. My name is Linda Duke. I also lived with my granny in Fulbar Lane during school holidays. I went to Reenfrew High School in 1968. If you remember me please get in touch, I would love to hear from you.
Although l tended to spend most of my free days playing at near by Hilly Fields, it being nearer to my home, l do have a few memories of playing at the Wreak, that's the name, we as kids knew it by. As a pupil at Lewisham Bridge Primary School, we used it for sports. After leaving school, mostly during the mid 1960s, a number of us, including 2 of my brothers, friends and mates, from my street mostly, after Sunday ...see more
At the request of my 42-year-old daughter "to see where Mom was born and her childhood up to age 15 years" we made a nostalgic visit from Herefordshire back to HUMP-SHIRE as Willenhall was known, on New Year's Day 2012.
1938 was my birth year, Acorn Street was the place, a little insignificant street just off the main Wolverhampton-Walsall Road...but a happy little street of terraced "party yards" as ...see more
We lived on Coniston Road, the Smith family in the Fryin Pan, does anyone remember us? Jean, Barbara, Jimmy and Pat, we lived next door to the Kkennedys and no-one either side of us. Lots of happy memories, my brother Jimmy and I used to go off hand in hand off to the coke/coal slips up the side of the railway line, always getting in trouble as we came back black, playing skipping with a really long skipping rope ...see more
I was born on the 6th of July 1936 at 61 Hinckley Road. My mother was Edith Truslove, nee Turrell, father William Truslove. I had an idyllic childhood. Playing in Ken Underwood's fields. Watching the quarry steam locos running to and from the quarries on Sapcote Road and the crusher down Elmsthorpe Lane. All my uncles worked in the quarries as did most of the village men. We had long walks to Croft, ...see more
I worked in the office at Thos Crompton, as a wages clerk. I remember having to go into the sawmill to collect the time sheets. It scared me stiff seeing the saws whizzing round and the whining noise they made. My overactive imagination gave me a fear of saws which still stays with me.
On quiet days I manned the switchboard. There were wires all over the place. I shudder to think how many calls I ...see more
The date is approximate. Does anyone recall, or have any information about, a large detached residence in Harrowdene Road called the Red House? It stood where the existing bungalows are in Sylvester Avenue and was demolished in the late 1950's. It was unique in that its gardens treched right down to Sudbury Avenue, unlike the other Harrowdene Road properties whose gardens backed onto those in Sudbury ...see more
I lived in Rodridge Street and attended Wellfield Grammar School. My best pal was Peter Scott who lived in Milburn Terrace. Peter emigrated to Australia on the £10 package trip, I never heard from him after that. He had a brother Bernard, who was in the R.N.
After school I went to work on a dairy farm near Trimdon Village. I later worked at the Palace Cinema in Wingate as a projectionist with Walter Gibbon ...see more
Before the Second World War my grandfather, Donald MacVitie, was a builder who renovated properties in the Cheltenham, Tewkesbury area, often living in them during or after doing the work. The Old Forge at Aston-on-Carrant was one of them. I believe that my grandfather also did some work on The Manor House in the late 1930s and I have a brochure outlining the forthcoming sale by auction of the property on 28th June 1939.
I have some lovely nostalgic memories of the J.S.S.C Latimer, where I was stationed in 1952. Most of the period I was a provost policeman. There were 3 of us and a provost corporal, cpl Burrows, [I believe came from Wiltshire]. There was no R.S.M, but a warrent officer, [I forgot his name], also a camp commondant colonol Ackland, under him, major Hickey. The food was wonderful, the guys and gals terrific. My ...see more
Would anyone reading this, have any knowledge, or photographs of Ty'n y Buarth, Llanrug? Where it once stood, there is now a modern housing estate. My e mail address is: abergele1754@hotmail.co.uk. Iorwerth Selwyn (Blaenau Ffestiniog)
My cousins had stalls in the market, the Prouds. I have so many lovely memories of my dad and mum taking me shopping, particularly around Christmas. With all the old gas lights spluttering and smelling and the smells of the stall with toffee apples, and the hot chestnut stand. Oooh! Yes and the Salvation Army Band playing and rattling their collection boxes. There was Mr and Mrs Cohen with their daughters and ...see more
I remember the Co-op butchers at Caddington shown in the picture. Ted Reed was the manager and his son Michael used to work part time there cleaning up. I also recall Courtline Coaches having the contract for school bus transport and then when London Transport closed down Courtline took over the local bus service. I also remember walking from Runley Road area of Luton across the hills and farm area ...see more
Following on from my cousin Mick Packwood's memories of Saltfleet in the 1970s, I would like to add mine. Life there was pretty simple as I guess most places were during that period. Fishing was the main pastime during the day with the usual catch being eels. We did used to eat them once you managed to actually hold them and skin them. Grandad used to stew them in milk, but to be honest the only way I ...see more
Last thoughts, for her, was my father's mother, did see her, I remember in a place called CULTURE HOUSE, next to old police station, just as you come over railway bridge, on left hand side, on the way to JARROW. I think she ran a bed and breakfast. She was called AMELIA GILROY, pure white hair which was long, and blue eyes.
This is a picture of the corner of Chapel Street and George Street showing the old Boots Chemist shop before it was taken over by Hepworths the tailors. Dewhursts butchers shop was also in the same complex between Chapel Street, the Conservative Club and the Red Lion carpark area where the taxis used to park waiting their turn to enter the taxi rank on Market Hill.
This picture looks like it was taken with Dunstable Place as the intersection on the left. It would have had the Post office on the corner closest to the photographer and housed the old police station on the right between Upper George St. and Stuart St.
Our family used to own Mottingham farm when it was a dairy farm. There was a United Dairies shop just around the corner to the memorial and the bike place was the United Dairies delivery base. My great aunt lived over the shop until approx 1984/5. We lived in Le May Avenue and my great-great-grandparent lived in 'The Avenue', now Somertrees Avenue, just trying to link it all together, no tg house has been pulled ...see more
My G Grandfather and G Grandmother Thomas & Eliza Webb owned the local butcher shop, he resided in Lyminge for the 31 years, was a butcher and for many years he was a chorister, bellringer, member of the parish council and gardeners society. The plaque on the walls in the local church for bell ringing and buried in the churchyard.
Also My G Grandfather was Ernest Robert Holliday, also came from the village, my ...see more
This photo shows (just) the shop unit (on the right behind the post boy on the pavement, currently the Londis store) which I believe formerly housed famous Cornish mineral dealer Richard Talling's "Fancy Repository" (Mineral shop) from around 1844 until his death in 1883. I would very much like to track down any photos which may exist of either Richard Talling or his shop (exterior and interior) on the corner of Queen St and Fore Street for a biography that I am working on.
Prior to WW2 I can remember my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, lived almost opposite each other in Tuskar Street, a working class area of Greenwich. This made it easy for my own parents to meet one another back in the very early thirties. One memory that sticks very much in mind was of the milkman who served Tuskar Street, coming round with an open horse-drawn cart. The milk was in churns and ...see more
My mother and some of her family were sent/lived in Fyfield Ongar for a short time during the Second World War. They moved there from West Ham in London. Her only memory of where she lived is that it was a large house with swords arranged high up on the walls. Her only other memory is of a pub with the word 'Black' in it - we've located that!
Any info will be gratefully recieved.
I often stayed with my grandparents during my school holidays, spending many happy hours working alongside the men at Stan Shepherd's farm. I still visit the village and feel very much at peace when I walk round. If anyone remembers Mr. and Mrs Burbidge or has any stories I would love to know.
Hi Jacqueline, I lived at 9 School Street. My name is Mike Hawkins and I was born in 1947. I think your name was Burgess and your brother Tommy was my childhood best friend. He moved to Welwyn Garden City and I never saw him again. You have a reply from Kathryn White who I think must be formerly Kathryn Gallagher. All my childhood memories are of playing all day long with Kathryn and Margaret Sullivan ...see more
In all my years of looking at books and memories of Mitcham there is no mention of my mum's coffee stall at Mitcham Cricket green opposite Burn Bullocks pub also known as the Kings Head. As a boy I remember being with my mum as she worked on my uncle's coffee stall. She would tell me that of all the famous people that would stop and have their teas and hot pies and ...see more
I attended Stratton CP School between 1969-1975 when it was at Howells Road. The headmaster at that time was Frank Clark who taught me in J6 and other teachers I can remember were Mrs Hicks, Mrs Humpries, Mr Vince, Mr Gregory, Mr & Mrs Olson and Mrs Wheatley. Was there a Mr Yelland as well??? As an infant we would have a bottle of milk every morning after succeeding in piercing the straw through the ...see more
I have only just discovered this website and felt compelled to respond. I was born in Heathfield Gardens, South Croydon in 1948 and my maiden name was Murphy. We moved to Wyche Grove near the Purley Arms, South Croydon when I was about 5 years old and we lived there until 1963 when we moved to the Isle of Wight. Something of a culture shock! I remember trips up to Surrey Street market, noise of the stall holders and the ...see more
I sometimes stayed with my Uncle Frank and Auntie Florrie Allen in Stoford in the 1940s and 1950s. He was a signalman for the Southern Railway at Yeovil Pen Mill Station and would encourage me to have a wander around his station and goods yard - there was no such thing as "Health and Safety" regulations in those far off happy days! Sometimes he would take me for walks ...see more
My grandparents Jack and Beral Storey lived at 8 Plumpton Close with their kids Ricky, Stevie, Sharon and Darrell. My dad was Stevie who sadly passed away in 1980. I spent every weekend at my nan's and have great memories like going to bingo at the working mans club round the corner where my grandad Jack would call the numbers, going round the cabin to get my aunty Sharon Embassy no.6 with a 50p wrapped up in a note ...see more
Anyone reading this who has the surname ENGLISH or knows of someone in their family with this name, who originates or comes from Oxborough, please contact as a family tree is in the process of being made and any family names and dates etc would be very helpful.
Thank you.
hapidaze@ozemail.com.au
Having researched my family history I was expecting that most of my family were from Bepton and Midhurst, however whilst several family members were laid to rest in Bepton churchyard, I have found that in fact we have long standing family links with Steep from the 1920s going back to Abraham PIERSON in 1708. Virtually all our family have been PIERSONS though some married local girls so ...see more
My only memory of Whitefield is turning out to play football for Manchester YMCA in a league fixture away from "home" in 1967. It was a reserve team game, we paid our own bus fares to reach the park, I grazed my knees badly on the cinder pitch and we lost! There were no changing facilities and I dripped blood and cinders all the way back to Manchester on the bus!
New friends were made at Pontllanfraith Grammar School, names such as Alan Davies, Gino Minoli, Clive Lewis, Glyn Moss, Joyce Davies, Margaret Brooks, Judith Dyer all come to mind. I regret I gave so little effort to my academic work, but I had already decided that I wanted to work in my grandfather's business at Gibbs Bros. Garages Ltd. Sport I loved in any form, athletics ...see more
My husband's father Frank Baker, worked at Starting Post Farm on All Alone Road near Idle. His cousin Albert Drew, was in the fields with him when a German air plane came down. Does anyone have any memories of this and know the time of day when it happened? My husband's father later joined the Army and was killed in 1944, my husband then came back to South Yorkshire with his mum.
I had a spell of six weeks at St Mary's, my sister came along with me for company. I suffered from chest infections and was sent there hoping the sea air might go me good. I remember going down the stone steps to the beach. Every day we were sent to bed for a nap. My green candlewick bedspread had a teddy bear on. We thought it was a bit odd being sent to bed in the afternoon. I guess that considering the fog horn kept ...see more
The Grange always brings back memories of our life growing up in the village. We are the Blackburn family and we lived at 11 Curtis Drive. We used to play in the field at the front of the big house as we called it but if 'madame la la" as we knew her caught us we got into big trouble. Many memories of the village and the people there. Coming up in the new year and always stop in the village to look around and to ...see more
The area now known as "Stibb Green" was until the 1970s or 1980s known as "Steepe Green" although it was pronounced as Stibb by many of the locals.
Never seen Tom, but I remember his father, Aloysious Devlin, my grandfather, who always was in with the budgies in the aviary, he lived in Campbell Park Road, Hedburn. Also the smell coming from the bone yard and from the coke ovens, and trying to dodge paying the fare on the ferry.
I remember travelling from Luton in Bedfordshire during the late 1950s and early 1960s to spend a week at Mrs Sampson's Harbour House boarding facilities. My father used to drive the coach overnight from Luton and we would stop in Honiton on the way. If we were early we would also stop in Truro for a short time. The building in question is seen in this photo at the extreme right hand side and later was ...see more
I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish shop on Park Square for the taxi drivers and get fish and chips for them. The good old days when Billy Bingham, Ron Baynham, Gordon Turner and Wally Shanks used to play for the then 1st ...see more
The Town Hall gardens was once the terminal for the atmospheric railway to London. A little before my time!
I was born in Luton in the 1940s and remember well the shops in Manchester Street with WG Durrants butchers on the corner of Manchester Street and Bridge Street. Next door in Bridge Street was a garage and further along Manchester Street towards the town hall was Wilds sports and toy store, Faiman fashions and a pub called the Horse and Jockey. On the opposite side of the road was a cafe called the Petite which ...see more
I went to this school during part of the Second World War years and was in Miss Backhouse's class, she used give you the ruler across the back of your hands if you were caught talking. Other boys that were there at that time were Chris Prier, Terry Jeffries and the Rawling brothers. Happy Days.
I remember the hut that was used as the changing rooms for all the outside sports, damn cold in the winter. Mr Lester was the Head at the time, mostly I remember the teachers Jim (Maths) and a tall teacher, very stern, chemistry, can't recall his name. Oh, and a Welsh teacher that taught English.
I learned a lot at this place, best time ever when I think back. The girls school was the other side of a fence ...see more
My great-grandmother lived in Durlin Road at the time of her death in 1947, Elizabeth May. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers Durlin Road or indeed my great-grandmother!
Many thanks.
I used to get all my motorcycle bits from a shop called Rapedes, they had a Vincent Rapede in the window. Back in 1985 or so I went back to look for the place, I had the old A-Z book from 1964 so I thought I should be okay... I asked a police man he laughed and said it was ASDA now. All gone years ago.
I left Graham Road School in 1968.
Barry
I married Helen in 1967 and the only property available to rent was in Benwell. As we were both far too young to know better we took a bottom flat in Greenhow Terrace. That's where it all went wrong, Benwell was being demolished and couples were being relocated at Newbiggin Hall Estate, a new estate on the outskirts of Newcastle....Eagerly we accepted the keys to number 48 only to find it had no electricity or hot ...see more
I was born in 1957, lived in Guide Street, Weaste. We never had much in those days but life was good. Our main source of fun was the Sandhills down Mode Wheel, Weaste cemetery and Ladywell Quarry. Days out consisted of a bottle of water and beef paste butties wrapped in greaseproof paper! I went to St Luke's school on the corner of Mode Wheel Road. I remember the Robinsons, Vaughans, Hartleys, Burdons, Copelands, ...see more
My memories of my aunt and uncle's shop in Lonsdale Avenue spans from my earliest memory until 1978 when it was destroyed by fire. My aunt and uncle were Violet and Stanley (Mick) Mitchell. I'm not sure when they first opened the shop but I think it was the end of the 1940s. They had the shop until 1978 when my Uncle Mick suddenly passed away. The shop was being sold so they could retire but ...see more
Many happy memories of Birchington - my sister (born 1933) often used to take me to the Ice Cream Parlour which until about 5 years ago still had the rattan chairs and tables and distinctive smell of vanilla. Most family links through Mill Row and Mill Lane (off Canterbury Road and near Court Mount) with aunt and uncle moving into Shamrock Villas in 1911 when first built. Lots of connections through ...see more
Church House Farm was a large white building nestled neath the shadows of the great Yew trees that bordered the graveyard of All Saints Church, Shelsley Beauchamp, the other side of the River Teme from Shelsley Walsh. The gates to the farm opened onto the unofficially titled 'Bridge Road' that led from 'Church Corner' to the New Mill Bridge and the 400 year old building that was in my day known as "Cooks ...see more
In the 1960's King John's Palace was occupied completely by airline pilots and cabin crews. I was one of those! It was a fun and happy place with something always going on. The Star and Garter and the Ostrich were the two main watering holes. Everyone lived an almost communal life with all doors being open. They were great days with very fond memories! I wonder where all the occupants are today? I know ...see more
Ii remember as a small child the excitement of our train drawing away from Heacham station and finally stopping at Hunstanton, then carrying our cases to a caravan at Searles. Another enduring memory is of waiting as a shunting engine moved coal into the now long gone gas works. Would love to find a picture of these trucks being shunted through the (as they seemed then) great gates.
I was born in this house, in October 1949, Janet Ruth Green. My parents were Alma and Ernest Green. My sister Susan and brother Edward also lived there at that time. Unfortuneatly my father died in1952 and the house was sold. I believe it eventually was turned into flats.
Does anyone remember a children's clothing shop named Rosalind which was located on the same side of the street as the chemist which had a dentist's above it and near the La Capanna end of the High Street? I was taken in there during the 1960s for my clothes. Also I remember a small department store opposite (the name Gamages springs to mind but am not sure) which sold both women's and men's clothing. It ...see more
This Church is now in the care of the Redundant Churches Commission having been closed for regular worship in the 1970s. It is open daily and special events are held there including the annual Hyden Festival and other concerts and special worship services. I was baptised there in 1948, attended Sunday School across the road in "The Old Grammar School" (now a Solicitors Office) and my husband and I married there in 1971. Happy memories and regularly visited whenever we return for a holiday.
This house is significant because I lived around the church close in Glenn Place (top of Moat Street) at the time of this picture. Also, my late father was a well known sign writer - Herman Williams - who hand-painted the 'Baxter's House' details on the front of the house. Richard Baxter was a former curate at St Leonard's (details on the house and a photo inside St Leonard's).
My mother was Doreen Hardwidge and she had a brother Dilwyn ( who is still alive and lives in Cleethorpes) and a sister Hilda (who died many years ago). Her parents were Rebecca and Fred Hardwidge. I remember Gilfach vividly as a child, when we used to visit Hilda and Alb at 5 Heol Heulog and I found it like another world. I struggled a bit with the outdoor loo but loved the warm range in the ...see more
During the 1940s my parents lived on Bryn Lupus Road, Llanrhos Corner. I was born in Treherne House was the first house next to the Corner. One of our rambles was to cross the fields and walk through the woods to Pydew as we called it. It was a quaint village that was reminiscent of bygone days. I remember a house where a lady lived and she took me in and fed me. She had suffered a tragedy with ...see more
I have chosen 1958 as, being born in 1954, my memories start from around then. Angie, my sister in crime, who was 18 months older than me, was a big influence, always game for adventure. Nothing phased her!
We, along with our other siblings, spent a lot of time outside. None of that sitting in front of computers, or televisions then...We were hardy Yorkie gals, and rain or shine we always out ...see more
I was sent there for the school holidays to recover from Whooping Cough when I was 8 years old. It was awful. We had to sleep in a dormatory with a nun in charge who slept behind a curtain. Every time I coughed she would come and shout at me so I spent most nights with my head under the covers trying not to cough. I dreaded breakfast. We had to eat porridge with sugar which I hated and drink tea ...see more
I remember you, Donald,from when I was at Tredrizzick school. We had a lot of fun in the playtimes with marbles, skipping with a big rope and tag. There always seemed to be so much to do and we didn't know the meaning of the word 'bored'.The six weeks of summer holidays were spent at Porthilly beach where a large boat, Genesta'was her name was anchored high up on the sand. When the men started taking her apart we ...see more
My father Clive Impey,was demobbed from the forces in 1946 and at the time the shop was a shoe repair shop. He converted it to a greengrocers shop and during the next few years it became a general store. My mother Jocelyn worked and helped out in the shop. Although we lived in D'abernon Drive, I spent most of my childhood around the Tilt and the River Mole, fishing!
My father sold the shop in 1972 to a ...see more
