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My elderly grandmother lived in the last cottage at the top of Upper Mill Street opposite the Clock Mill. A brief description during the 1950’s might be of some historical interest. A small bedroom faced the front ...Read more

A memory of Tillicoultry in 1953 by John Cunningham

My paternal grandparents, Ernie and Sally Featherstone, lived at 11 Burnsall Avenue, Heysham with their son Jack (my dad) during the 40s and 50s. My maternal grandparents, Sid and Olive Wilson, and their daughters Mavis (my ...Read more

A memory of Heysham in 1955 by Ann Featherstone

Manchester the war.... then to Blackpool. And into Red Rose Cottage in 1950, Grandmare how she held us all together, what a lady Nellie Booth was her name... We started off with eight of us living in the cottage, and ...Read more

A memory of Staining in 1950

What a lovely village I started my life in, mother owned the row of cottages near the shop, names i cannot recall,went to the shop to get my ration of sweets from my ration book as it was end of the war years then i went down to the ...Read more

A memory of Woodton in 1955 by Gerald Wase

I used to live in the little cottages at the bottom of Chequers Lane. 7 of us in a 2 up 2 down, outside loo - no bathroom. There was a ditch running all along the back of the cottages and all us children had hours of fun playing ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1953

Our family used to travel from London to a cottage called Redlon in Great Wratting for our childhood holidays during the 1950s. It was owned by the Cummings sisters and their mother. We looked after their Siamese ...Read more

A memory of Great Wratting in 1950 by Elizabeth Heap Talvela

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

I lived, with my parents and brother and sister, in the 'School House' from 1956-1963. My mother [Mrs Maud Slater] was one of the teachers and taught in the school until her retirement in 1978. The school and ...Read more

A memory of Preston Candover in 1956 by Sean Slater

I was born in one of the cottages behind the coach in the photograph. Lots of good memories

A memory of Dymchurch in 1950 by Edward Mc Manus

I was born at 19 London Road, Tanyard Cottages near Holy Trinity Church. My grandadparents lived in Station Road near the village hall.  My great aunts owned Hope Cottage Farm, Station Road. Many times when I was a kid I ...Read more

A memory of Hurst Green in 1958 by Lily Bennett