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I have many happy memories of my childhood in Stambridge. I lived there with my family for 17 years until I married. Along with my brothers and sister, we all went to Stambridge Primary school and in the summer we used to go to ...Read more

A memory of Great Stambridge

I remember most of these places shown in the photographs and as I look at them memories flood back! I remember learning to swim by the steps on the quay and drinking cider whilst hiding amongst the sprat boxes piled ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1963 by Fred Pentney

Have returned to Cornwall to try tracing some of the ancestors through graveyards and the Mormon Centre. Also found a brilliant library in Redruth on the day we were going home and found written info on John ...Read more

A memory of Prussia Cove by Clare Brown

I have many happy, if rather boozy, memories of Downderry! I first went there in 1983 until my final visit in 1996, where I had 12 fantastic holidays there, most of the time in glorious sunshine. I went with my parents each year ...Read more

A memory of Downderry by Christopher Whittle

Does anyone else have any memories of 'Bottle Alley'? I think it was on the Promenade and it was a covered walk (built in Victorian times, I believe) of concrete encrusted with bottles, mainly the bottoms, in all sorts of patterns. ...Read more

A memory of Hastings in 1955

I remember Beech Hill very well as I lived over Glayshers Hill from 1958 when I was 2 years old - we couldn't get up the hill in the winters back then and my dad would spend ages trying to get to work. We ...Read more

A memory of Headley Down by Christine Passingham

I was born in Leicester in 1958 and shortly afterwards my dad and nana bought a caravan that was sited at Mr Metcalfe's site on Brick Lane. Our caravan was called Niaroo and was sited next to an apple tree. ...Read more

A memory of East Runton by Carole Smith

Arthur and Jack Fairweather. If I remember rightly we were billeted with Mr and Mrs Tomlingson at the farm, at the beginning of the village on the right hand side on entering. It was the most happy time of the war for us both, ...Read more

A memory of Dunham-on-the-Hill in 1943 by Arthur Fairweather

When I saw this photo of the road leading to the beach, I could literally smell the sand and the sea. I felt the excitement of a five year old, armed with bucket and spade. Further up from the beach but on the same road, there ...Read more

A memory of Morfa Bychan in 1960 by Erica James

I first saw Littlehampton when my primary school made an end-of-year trip in 1963, and my memories were dominated by the figure-of-eight dodgems at the amusement centre, and some intrepid soul getting stuck in the river ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton by Tony Gorton