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My father, Stafford Brown, was a student at Beccles College during the First World War. He stayed with the Knights family of Puddingmoor. Mr Knights, who was a wherryman, told of a strange event that happened to him ...Read more

A memory of Beccles in 1910 by Barbara Brown

My Godmother Ruth Pallister came from Shildon. Her father and mother owned a shop there, and she would recount the story of a bull or steer that escaped from the local slaughter house, and pushed its head through the shops front ...Read more

A memory of Shildon in 1910 by Iain Chapman

I recently discovered during the 1911 census; my grandmother, Elizabeth Lennon Wear, was living & working at the Post Office in Moore. She was twenty three & was a postal telegraph clerk. Elizabeth had travelled ...Read more

A memory of Moore in 1910 by Sue Higginbotham

When my Mother passed away in 1999 I had the unhappy task of clearing out her Warden Controlled little flat. Amongst her possessions I came across an old history project I had done at school in the 1970s for which I ...Read more

A memory of Handsworth in 1910

Tilehurst was the first name given to a Federation cottage built in Cecil Street,Fairlight near Manly,NSW c1915 presumably by its Berkshire-born builder or first owner.It was quickly renamed Heatherbrae by its new Scottish-born owner. A ...Read more

A memory of Tilehurst in 1910 by Terry Metherell

My great grandmother, Cecelia Mary Gore, b. 1887 - the grand daughter of an earl, eloped with a gardener, Albert Reynolds, in the early 1910s. They married, had four children. Win, my grandmother was one of them, Albert a son ...Read more

A memory of Thakeham in 1910