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I visited the Bosherston Tea Gardens every May Bank Holiday week from 1967-1972. The reward for walking from Broadhaven beach via the Lilly ponds was tea and a piece of iced cake complete with a cherry. On an earlier holiday the ...Read more

A memory of Bosherston by Joye Rosenstiel

I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always managed to provide us with 2 weeks' holiday somewhere. How we came to holiday in Wroxall is still a bit of a ...Read more

A memory of Wroxall by Roy Beiley

I remember my childhood, going to the chippy and playing on the beach, everyone was nice and happy. I still live in Barassie but now all I think of is how dull it has become with new buildings everywhere (some ...Read more

A memory of Troon in 2009 by Melanie Gibson

Does anyone have any memories about the 1953 floods? My aunt Phyliss Papworth and her daughters Suzanne, Jennifer and Patricia who lived in South Beach Road all drowned, but her other daughter Janet was at a birthday party at ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1953 by Marlene Hyland

1975-1984 lived at 24 Vulcan Close remember the blue van and the football cards with the bubble gum very well! The 233 bus, swimming and Wilson's, knock down ginger, roller disco skates on the decks, moppit, the milk round with Brian, ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1975 by Roy Styles

I was born in Fleetwood in1939 and lived in Adelaide Street; opposite the market at no 19. I remember Tommy Butler (daft Tommy) digging great holes on Ferry beach. I used to help Frank Brown (market superintendant) to ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 1940 by Frederick Porter

Isn't it funny how some things stick in your mind forever. Washford 391 was the phone number. The Beeches Camping and Caravan Site was the place and the time was the early 1950s. Bob Bosley was the owner and his brother Geoff ran ...Read more

A memory of Blue Anchor in 1952 by Brian Aplin

I first came to Pagham in 1965, we used to holiday at Church Farm Caravan Site and in those days it was run by John and Shirley Romaine. I have fond memories of Buster and Cocker from my Church Farm Days and I remember ...Read more

A memory of Pagham by Elaine Bradley Fowler

Could somebody with historic reference please quell my curiosity regarding this photograph. I lived in the village from 1958-71 and cannot see where this picture was taken. I have studied it at length and ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand by Phil Dunning

As a child our dog MAC had his boarding holidays with a Mrs Crawford who had a pig farm somewhere off Strathaven Road. I remember my dad driving up the farm road to the farm and the pigs seemed so big and dirty to us little children. ...Read more

A memory of Eaglesham by Lorna Cupples