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Samantha was about seventeen when I first met her, she lived at the large house next to the old Church Farm. I remember it was a hot sunny day and I was heaving straw onto the ground from the cart, wheat ...Read more

A memory of Honingham in 1981 by Tom Venour

Back in the good old 60's I was looking for work as a labourer and noticed that something was going on at Steventon Hill. I walked up the track and met foreman Charlie Bain who gave me a start doing the ground work and ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1962 by Keith Lewis

The large house to the right of the picture is called Barclay House, it's also St Keverne garage.  We moved there in late 1979 and lived there for 3 years, having to leave it behind and move back to the north west due to family ...Read more

A memory of St Keverne in 1981 by Marvin Hall

I was 19 years old and loved cycling. My aim was to cycle from Blackpool, where I lived, to Barley Youth Hostel on Pendle Hill. Unfortunately, I calculated too little time to reach my destination and found myself at ...Read more

A memory of Barley in 1969 by bondstreet31

Just at the top of the photo, and out of camera, was a pub called the Railway Tavern. Locally it was known as the 'Top House'. Around the back lurked a bookies runner, and I was sent by my grandad on many occasions, to 'put a ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by David Tootles.Thetaxi@Yahoo.Co.Uk

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

I was born in Mundford in 1955 - when I was 18 months old my family moved to the nearby hamlet of West Tofts. We had a small wooden bungalow, one of a pair, that was directly opposite an army camp. My father worked for his father ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1960 by Alan Walker

I was born at Gwaenfarren House in Merthyr Tydfil and lived at 70 Bryncelyn Ave with my father, step-mother and brother Barrie until I left to join the RAF in 1970. I can remember the old prefabs being knocked down and the ...Read more

A memory of Nelson in 1953 by Kevin Cale

Situation of Farm:  Glebe Farm was situated in the centre of Brough approached along a track off the Fosse Way,,the A46 and approximately 3 miles north of Newark.. About 800mt away was the very busy war time ...Read more

A memory of Brough by David Kind

If you look at the photograph of The Wells, on the crossroad that leads up the hill to Midland Road, the first shop on the corner used to be Barclays Bank but before then it was a tobacco shop and sweet shop combined. In the ...Read more

A memory of Royston by Roland Mitchell