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I am currently researching my family tree and wonder if anybody in Hooton Roberts might be related to me. My great-great-grandfather Joseph Simpson was born in Conisbrough 1839 and married a lass called ...Read more

A memory of Hooton Roberts in 1880 by Philip Maudsley

Maritime House used to house the National Union of Seamen but I believe it is now occupied by the Railway Union. My grandfather Sir Thomas Yates was the General Secretary of the Seamen's Union until he ...Read more

A memory of Clapham by Lilian Mc Millan

I was disturbed to read the Memory posted in early September from a contemporary about our common primary school, Bridport Visitation Convent. It was reprinted in the Bridport News of October 1st so needs to be balanced I ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1949

Having walked up the hawthorn-lined path from Graburn Road to Church Road, I would turn towards the Embassy Cinema and The Grapes Hotel (pictured) and turn into Ryeground Lane on the way to St Peter's Infants ...Read more

A memory of Freshfield in 1945 by Phil Bird

My great-grandmother, Mrs Clara Burr, had the Supply Store in Halling Road for many years from the early 1900s. She had been widowed in 1903 when her two sons, my grandfather Rowland and his brother Norman, were babies. When ...Read more

A memory of Halling in 1900 by Mary Rogers

I lived in Spindle Cottage (now, I see, simply 'Spindles') with my mother from mid-1940 till the end of the Second World War, from the age of five till ten; my father, who was a codes and ciphers officer in ...Read more

A memory of Eversley in 1940 by Martin Dilly

I was born here in 1939, three weeks before the outbreak of war. We lived at Hilltop a bungalow built for my parents in 1937. There was no electricity until 1952 although we had mains water. The road outside was only ...Read more

A memory of Blissford in 1945 by Nevile Chalke

We used to live at The Green, Bexleyheath off Heversham Road and my earliest memories were riding my tricycle around the detached bungalow. My mother took me shopping at Long Lane on this tricycle which had a boot and a rod ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1950 by Bob Hewitt

Boston Drill Hall was a second home to me. My dad CSM George Johnson would take my sister Marilyn and I to the drill hall on a Sunday morning for a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps, they tasted ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1960 by George Kieran Johnson

Hello, I was born in 1942 at 88 Sunbury Road, Feltham. There were four children born at the house, 1938 Gwyneth, 1942 Carol, 1945 Hilary, 1949 Kelvin. My mother, Gwyneth, and dad, Stan, moved into the house the day they were ...Read more

A memory of Feltham by Carol Anne Wilkins