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My grandmother’s next-door neighbour in Upper Mill Street was an elderly lady called Miss Hunter who lived with her brother. I remember Miss Hunter always wore a mobcap, headgear that even in those days seemed ...Read more

A memory of Tillicoultry by John Cunningham

My father was chauffeur to Major Charles Mills of Hilborough Hall. I grew up there between 1950 and leaving school in 1962. I attended the village school. We lived on the main road opposite the Nunnery which has ...Read more

A memory of Hilborough in 1952 by Pam Hewer

I was born in the large house behind the van in June of 1932. At that time it was a private maternity home run by a Midwife called Nurse Bailey. My maternal grandparents lived in Plumtree Cottage, which is on the left of the photo ...Read more

A memory of Preesall in 1930 by John Isles

Hi my name is linda noble I was born in milling st it was great all my family lived round there as well my nana snowdon nana ridley granny curran auntie kathleen cousin pat aunty peggy all live same street aunty sheila lived ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1958

Hhello Nick Brannigan, I used to drink with your brother along with Seamus Cleary, Micky Kerr, John Mullhern and a crew down the Old Mill and the Langley Tavern. I hadn't seen Seamus since we were kids but I often wondered if it was ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1961 by Mick Reynolds

I remember my father owning a couple of caravans on a site towards the naze end, Westcliff rings a bell, i recall walking thru the camp site along the backwater and exiting at Mill st, into High st where ...Read more

A memory of Walton-On-The-Naze by Ian Hodsdon

Flavia's starlet Quex rd. Beckford School Broomsleigh Street then Harben School Kilburn. School dentist Kingsgate road (frightening) Grange Park. Saturday morning pictures ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1959 by Wendy Seth Ward

I went to Crayford County Modern Secondary school in Iron Mill Lane 1945 1950. Now demolished I see! Each week in summer our class walked from Iron Mill Lane to Martens Grove via Old Road, walking ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst by baetgr

MEMORIES OF ST.CATHERINE’S I was a boarder from Jan.1947 to July 1951. My memories too are happy ones. The principal, Ralph Cooper taught us Geography, Science and Latin and he stank of stale tobacco and his fingers ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury by tomarie

My name is Bill Elleray and I deposited in Kendal Records a collection of old family documents. Ref: WDX/971 They had been in my family for quite some time, some of them pre-1700. They mainly relate to property ...Read more

A memory of Winster by elleray