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My maternal family, Smiths and Meredith's, hail from the Pontypool area. My great grandmother , Matilda Smith (nee Meredith) lived in Waunfelin and ran a children's clothes/knitwear business from her house at the beginning ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1900 by Alan Sage

Hi, My father was born in Gwespyr/Llanasa in 1900, his name was Arthur Joseph Smith.  He and his brother William are listed on the village war memorial. Both having served in WW1, my father being 18 in June of 1918.  His father, ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1900 by Anthony P. Smith

My grandfather was Stanley Gardener and lived with his wife Rose at the Blacksmiths House, 11 Worthing Road. My mother, Joyce was born here, as were her sisters Marjorie and Peggy. The forge gradually turned into a garage, ...Read more

A memory of Southwater in 1900 by Barbara Lucas

My grandmother Alice Weaver lived in an old tumbldown cottage at Creeks Mill. She was a widow, and married my grandad George Wylde around 1900. My dad was born in 1903. They moved to Top House on the Highwood. The Creeks Mill house ...Read more

A memory of Hanley Swan in 1900 by Joy Langford/ Nee Wylde

A copy of the church photo was sent to me after I visited Witherley, on the trail of my Tillson ancestors. I was told that the middle house was where the Tillson's lived in the 1900s & before. My g/grandmother Ann Tillson was ...Read more

A memory of Witherley in 1900 by Shirley Harrison

I only knew Atcham as the place where my grandfather's family lived in 1901. My grandfather lived there with the rest of his family in the Atcham Schoolhouse because his dad was the local School Master at that time. I recently ...Read more

A memory of Atcham in 1900 by Helen Sliwinski

I am seeking information on a house named "Howdenside" or something similar in Whitburn Road during the period 1899-1926. My great uncle Robert Charles Atkinson gave it has his address when he went to Cleadon in Nov 1899 just prior ...Read more

A memory of Cleadon in 1900 by Graham Atkinson

My grandfather, Percy Sturge was born in Ledbury in 1896 and here are some of his memories he related to me when he was in his 90's. His mother, Annie, had lived by the Brewery Inn and one granny ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury in 1900

My mother was born in Eastleigh in the 1940's, my grandmother was born 1895 nearby and lived in the family home in Manor road. Great grandfather Cox built the house and was allowed to set his pigs free to roam in the ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1900 by David Brown

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