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I grew up in Hindhead near Thursley in the 1960s and this story was extremely well known locally. On the walk which we did often up to Gibbet Hill above the Devil's Punch Bowl you would pass the Sailor's Stone memorial which told the story ...Read more

A memory of Thursley by Sally Partington

I was born in Nelson in 1953 and lived in the prefabs at number 7, Heol Harry Lewis with my mother and father Mary and Doug Gray and my brother Neil who is 5 years older than me. Our next door neighbours were Peggy and ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Catriona Drooney Was Gray

My father was farm manager at Orange Court Farm from 1964-1967. We lived in one of the cedar wood bungalows put up in Littleton, I suspect in the early 1960s, by the More-Molyneux family for estate workers - they also owned the Guildway ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Andrew Webb

I lived at Bowyers in Steep Marsh for five years and ran Country Riding Stables with my parents. We had 20 horses and ponies and I taught so many children to ride. They were really happy days and even now I regret giving it all up and ...Read more

A memory of Steep Marsh in 1970 by Rita Haylock

At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 I was evacuated to Emery Down from Portsmouth. I was billeted with a very nice couple who lived in a cottage quite close to the church. The church was the centre of the village ...Read more

A memory of Emery Down in 1930 by Alan Evans

i was in the hospital as a patient for nearly two years, as a six year old boy, i had quite a good time considering i was far from home(portsmouth),the nursing staff were brillient,how they put up with us boys god knows,our schooling was ...Read more

A memory of Alton in 1958 by Michael Parker

I was a at school as a boarder at Churcher's College from 1945 to 1951. The immediate post war years in England were a time of great hardship and rationing. I remember vividly the bad winter of 1947, when Heath Pond ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield in 1945 by Howard Johnson

I remember Snob in Portsmouth very well as I worked there from 1975 to 1979. Some of the best days of my life. I still have a business card of our area manager.

A memory of Portsmouth by dianajayne1

Does any one on this site remember the Bradshaw family? they lived in Mansfield Crescent then moved to 183 Halifax Road. In the late 1960`s they emigrated to South Africa but I do know that their son David? and daughter Jean are living in ...Read more

A memory of Brierfield by drhcarro54

Rock House in chipstead lane i think. I, Tony Renwick, lived in marlborough crescent went to amherst primary school in the 1960s. I remember an amusing boy fred and another girl from rock house ...Read more

A memory of Riverhead by renwick10