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The building on the left is a carriage shed, used for holding spare passenger vehicles under cover. It is from the North Devon Railway in the 1850s and still appears to have broad gauge track (7ft gauge - not removed until 1877) laid ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1870

A few hundred yards west of Furnivall Gardens is St Peter's Church - the oldest and grandest church in Hammersmith. This is where my great-grandparents married on 27th September 1873: William Henry Howard and Jane Esther (or Hester) Goodwill.

A memory of Hammersmith in 1870 by John Howard Norfolk

The Brickfields, a place to catch sticklebacks,newts, tadpoles and slow worms. A friend of mine used to live in one of the terraced houses,I believe they must have once been workers' ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1870 by Lnda Golding

My great-great-grandfather was called John Price, and his wife was Caroline Bamford Escott. They had two boys, Leslie and Edward, known as Ted. They lived in the Old Court House, Turkey Street, this is now ...Read more

A memory of Llantwit Major in 1870 by Lynn Campbell

I have copied and pasted a few sections of my great-grandmother's memories of Castle Bromwich to share. "As I was not robust as a little child, my parents took part of a small house at ...Read more

A memory of Castle Bromwich in 1870 by Andrea Knagenhjelm

This is Alan Edgar Fullwood's memory and the reference to Slinfold is right at the bottom of this narration: Edgar Fullwood was my father.  He was born in Birmingham England in what is to me the beginning of our history in 1875 on ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1870 by Anne Robertson