Search Results

I lived there as a young child from about the ages of 2-14 years old (1960-early 1970s). As a young child Elmer Road seemed to be at the end of the world. The main road heading east hit a ...Read more

A memory of Middleton-on-Sea in 1969 by Barney Cotton

We spent part of our honeymoon here in April 1968. I had a tummy bug and used to go down to dinner not daring to look at my husband's plate full of food. All I had was a cup of coffee. He had saved up for a long time to take ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 1968 by Wendy Oakins

I would come with my father and brothers and sisters to see my grandfather who lived in a small house. There was a railway very near and the trains would run outside his house. His road was called Elm Grove Road, ...Read more

A memory of Farnborough in 1965

I left school in 1965, Ogley Hay Girls' School, my maiden name was Kathleen Cooper. My birth father was George Kelly although I was brought up by my grandparents, Nell and Gerald Cooper. I loved the avenues, everyone ...Read more

A memory of Brownhills in 1965 by kbull35

I can't remember when Pier Hotel ceased to be an hotel but in 1965 it was already a Residential Care Home run by Hampshire social Services. When we moved from Stubbington to Lee in 1977 I went to work in Pier House and stayed ...Read more

A memory of Lee in 1965 by Gaynor Boyd

My name is Jacqueline Erickson Morgan.  I lived in Milestone Cottage from August 1968 - January 1971.  I know this thatched cottage as Milestone Cottage; the name was due to the Milestone in front of the cottage that ...Read more

A memory of Little Shelford in 1968 by Jacqueline Morgan

Hi my name is Maria Brown (maiden name Zalmen). I lived in Kingskerswell up until 1967 when I was seven. We then moved to Australia. I have never forgotten this lovely place and in 2005 I decided to come back and relive my ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1967 by Maria Brown

I remember when there were two fishmongers in Earlestown, Lyons's fishmongers in Bridge St. and one whose name I can't remember in Legh St., now we have none.  We also had two picture places, the Rink where the Police ...Read more

A memory of Earlestown in 1960 by George Woodward

Mum remembers going across Parsons Green durig the war and the air raid had gone off, then she heard a doodlebug above her, she ran into the gents toilets and heard it land somewhere near, she never been that frightened ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1968 by Laura Warden

As far as I was concerned, at the tender age of eleven, I belonged to a Norfolk family having only known Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, my birthplace. The untitled photograph of Hyde End House that hung in my grandfather's hall ...Read more

A memory of Brimpton in 1961 by Alan Hyde