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I remember visiting the island on holiday, living with my Auntie Katie, my father's sister who had remained on the island. Her two sons, Jerry and Andy, grew garden potatoes on the hill and we would sit down to a big bowl of ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 1944 by Patrick Munro

It was a lovely warm August evening and a small gathering of 'bikers' stood around in the car park of the Star Inn - a typical Devon pub in Old Liverton.  They were enjoying looking at each others bikes ...Read more

A memory of Liverton in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

Hope someone out there can help. My Great Grandparents were called Elizabeth and Thomas Jackson. They are buried in St. Pauls, Hooton. They had 4 children, Thomas (my grandfather) John William Jackson ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Margaret Eve

I was at the convent 1955 and loved it ,the nuns the wagon wheel's at teatime and even the walks .Gave me great emotional strength for the rest of my life and sister Magdalene was not that bad!! my favourite was sister Ann ,then sister ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1955 by Dermot O'malley Keyes

Seeing this photo reminded me that a few of us aged 15 to 16 used to go to this pub to play snooker and drink beer - usually brown ale! I guess the publican probably realised we were under age but we were tucked away in a side room - ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham by John Buck

I first visited whitstable with my parents when I was 8 in 1952 we came for a weeks holiday and stayed in a bed and breakfast in castle road whitstable. My parents were so impressed with ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable in 1968 by Victoria Mason

I remember visiting the Dolycoed when I was 17 years old. I was pony trekking at Llanwrtyd and staying in a bed and breakfast establishment and my parents had come to stay at the Dolycoed. My father discovered that ...Read more

A memory of Llanwrtyd Wells in 1961

My first posting concentrated on my birth and school life in Barking, next a little about different memories of my early life. I lived in the prefabs in Ilford Lane on the corner with Victoria road, a few more yards up ...Read more

A memory of Barking by geoff.purdy

My mother in law stayed in this house with her mother,father and 3 brothers when it was a Croft..she stayed here from 1935-mid 40’s..she had to walk over 6 miles to school over the hills carrying her block of peat ...Read more

A memory of Backhill of Bush (Bothy)

In September 1940 I lived in Meadway and witnessed a Hurricane fighter crash in the Purley Boys Grammar School playing field. The pilot, an Ace pilot of the Battle of Britain was known as Caesar and ...Read more

A memory of Coulsdon by maureenlamb.broadraine