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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 ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham in 1900 by Valerie Hill

My grandfather Edgar Blake was badly wounded in the First World War and had many operations on his face to rebuild it. He lived to the age of 89, passing away in 1977. He and my grandmother are buried in the Churchyard of St ...Read more

A memory of New Alresford in 1900 by Valery Hollier

Does anyone have any knowledge or photos relating to the row of cottages, demolished in Upper Llansamlet, when the M4 was laid down? My great-grandfather lived in one of these cottages. There is a photograph in existance but I was ...Read more

A memory of Llansamlet in 1900 by Wendy Davies

I don't have a memory as such. My grandfather was deputy head gardener at Moreton Paddox until he retired in the late 1950s. He lived in North Lodge at Moreton Morell. I believe the Paddox were owned then by ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1900 by Robert Smith

My great-grandmother, Mrs Clara Burr, had the Supply Store in Halling Road for many years from the early 1900s. She had been widowed in 1903 when her two sons, my grandfather Rowland and his brother Norman, were babies. When ...Read more

A memory of Halling in 1900 by Mary Rogers

I was born in Doxey, about one mile from Stafford town centre. My forebears lived in and around what was then called Castletown, that is the area on the left of Doxey Road. My maternal grandmother Alice Parsons was the ...Read more

A memory of Stafford in 1900 by Michael Harnett

The Bay Horse Inn would then likely belong to T & R Theakston Ltd, which became a limited company in 1905. Now, 2012, the pub belongs to Greene King plc. The chimney in the background belongs to Lightfoot's Brewery, ...Read more

A memory of Masham in 1900 by Paul Theakston

My Great Uncle Elijah pulled the Blackpool Wheel down. The Company was probably Ward Bros. He had souvenirs made, in the shape of a coin Ed

A memory of Blackpool in 1900 by Edward Ward