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I went to Woolsery School for a few months in 1948. We lived on a farm called Little Walland, and walked to school, about a mile. I went back this year, after a 60 year gap, and remembered the school immediately. I found ...Read more

A memory of Woolfardisworthy in 1948 by Ken Elliott

I was born at Danbury Palace in Danbury and lived at Marks Farm bungalow in Rettendon. I remember getting frightened of the storms on the way home from Rettendon School. I remember walking home from school up Chalk Street. My ...Read more

A memory of Rettendon in 1942 by Margaret Dennis

From 1944 to 1956 my father Mr. G. Pember was head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technical School, which was also known as the Harris Institute. I can remember going there only once, at the time of the Preston ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1944 by Diana Dioszeghy

From just about where the photograph was taken I was born.  The house was called Forge House obviously because of the Forge which my father used as a shed to house chickens in and then used as a workshop for his carpentry.  He was ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1949 by Elizabeth Hunter

I was born in 1949 at home in West Wycombe Road and lived in the area until 1969. My family owned one of the two Corn & Seed Merchants businesses called Jones and Rivett Limited in Oxford Street and Dovecote Mill ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1949 by Gerald Rivett

During the invasion scare of WW2, Porthpean beach was protected from seaborne landings by the Germans by having anti-landing craft defences built along the length of the beach at I believe, the low tide mark. ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1943 by Peter Marks

Hello friends!  I am very interested to find out as much as I can about the former Our Lady's school which used to be on Church Road in Formby.  I'm interested more about the boys side as ...Read more

A memory of Formby in 1949 by Patricia Aindow

My parents, Rose Marston and Roy Sopp were married in this church! I have the wedding photo of them standing in the side entrance.

A memory of Great Bookham in 1944 by Eunice Livingstone

I have many memories associated with this church in as much as it was where I went to Sunday School and my brother James was an Altar Boy and chorister. During the war years my mum ran the "Castrees" fish and chip shop in the market ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1941 by Clifford Wilson

I lived at the house just at the top of photo. The outbuildings can clearly be seen in the adjoining field to the family home.  I spent all my childhood years playing with my brother and friends here. I used to love watching ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Hammond in 1944 by Stephanie Mcpherson