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Dear  Villagers of the Droxford & Exton area - Please can you help me, I'm looking for living relatives of Alfred Miles, who died in 1900, around the Droxford area. He was a gamekeeper, his wife was called Sarah, two of their ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1900 by Carl Miles

It was 1958 and I had just left school at Walbottle Secondary. Me and my best pal Wes Coulthard (who I'm sad to say has since passed away) went on our first holiday together before starting down the Pit. We went with his parents Jimmy ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows

I went to school in Newton on Trent when I was 7. The head teacher was Mrs Moore. There was a Big room and a Little Room. The Little Room had a Wendy House...and I remember reading a book about and boy who ...Read more

A memory of Newton on Trent in 1955 by Gillian Emerton

The hotel was used by the Duke of York's Military School which had been evacuated from Dover - on the cliff tops. Wooden huts were erected along the cliff in front and alongside the hotel to be used as classrooms - each ...Read more

A memory of Saunton in 1944 by First Name Last Name

my memories of tilshead ,well i lived there from1953 till 1968[from the age of 2 to 15 years old..every body seemed to know each other in the village ,a friendly small community as i remember .I first went to ...Read more

A memory of Tilshead in 1963 by Ken Dunmow

In the Necropolis, Section Omega are a number of family lairs containing the following family lines. The Bell Family Lair has the following inscription, James Bell, Printer, 1806 to 1883( James Bell, my Great, ...Read more

A memory of Glasgow in 1890 by James Logan Bell

I lived near to the top of Collis Street opposite King William Street from 1944 to 1967. My mothers cousins lived opposite on the corner of King William Street, which was a big double house built by my 2 great Uncles Jeavons ...Read more

A memory of Amblecote by Constance Phillips

I went to school at Tooting Bec Grammer School from 1954 to 1957 and worked after school and on a Saturday in a greengrocers on Upper Tooting Road. I have no idea what the shop was called but if I remember correctly it was near the ...Read more

A memory of Tooting Bec Common by rzholland

I don't know how I arrived at this website but I found it amazing that what I found awakes so many memories about Trethomas. My gran lived at 13 Bryn-y-fran Avenue, together with my uncles Ron and Trevor Evans. I lived ...Read more

A memory of Trethomas by andrewnrevans

My family lived in Fishponds, Bristol, during the severe bombing of the town in 1941/42. It was decided by the government that all children should be evacuated to the country, families were to say who was or was not to go - my mother ...Read more

A memory of Bishopswood by sasquall