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Coming to Brixham from just outside of London as an 11 year-old was a real culture shock. New smells (fish!) new sounds (seagulls) and new faces (the inhabitants of the south west certainly have distinct facial features...to say nothing of ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1880 by Stephen Jeffery

This is a very exciting discovery for me because it is one of the oldest photographs I have seen of a part of old Alcombe that I can recognise, even at my great distance from the UK. My Great-Grandfather, George Mildon had a school ...Read more

A memory of Alcombe in 1880 by Richard Mildon

What wonderful memories I have of my childhood holidays in Margate. Reading others memories bring them all racing back. The children born just after the war were so lucky. Although we really had nothing as regards money ...Read more

A memory of Margate in 1880 by Pauline Stone

I've suddenly come across some vague details about my great great grandparents who were called Thomas and Sarah Davies, who lived in Cilrhedyn. They actually lived on a farm called Crug Evan (or Crig Evan). I've done a ...Read more

A memory of Cilrhedyn in 1880 by Vanetta Harries

This photograph of 1881 is by chance, both the place and year, in which my Great-Grandad William Henry Howard was here! He certainly travelled around as he came from a Devon ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1880 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born in 1982 and spent my life until 1995/96 growing up in Cchickenley. My memory is the long hot summers, playing in the fields that looked out over Thornhill with all friends and family and jumping into the hay ...Read more

A memory of Chickenley in 1880 by Jacqui Chadwick

In Studdall Street, Little Mongeham in 1881-91, Henry Pittock a wagonner lived with his wife & daughter both called Frances. Henry was born about 1856 in Kingsdown, Kent, the son of Henry Stephen Pittock & ...Read more

A memory of Little Mongeham in 1880

My Great Great Grandfather Frederick George Rivers served and trained on this ship from 1886 to 1887, and trained on another 5 ships in Devonport between 1881 and 1891. Including HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Rupert and HMS Northampton. He served on his first ship at the age of 16.

A memory of Devonport in 1880 by David Phillips

Don't know much about my g g Grandfather, Richard Whitaker, other than he lived in Green Hammerton with his second wife Emily Armstrong. He was the village copper, with three children from a previous marriage and I ...Read more

A memory of Green Hammerton in 1880 by Julie Latham

I don't suppose there's anyone alive today who remembers this event but they would have to be about 143 years old! But as a shot in the dark, I wonder if anyone who remembers old Fairs ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1880 by J Lawrence Prior