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Nice to see this site. I was born in Coronation Street, and lived from 1947 till 1964 in the Plies, until my marriage. I have the fondest memories of growing up in Fairford, an absoutely idyllic life for a child in those days. The ...Read more

A memory of Fairford by Geoffrey Herbert

I lived in a cottage in Long Lane, beyond Church End as a child during the war. I have vivid memories of my life here. The snowy winter of 1943 when the snow reached up to the cottage windows. We had no neighbours except Dick and ...Read more

A memory of Gamlingay in 1940 by Maureen Arrowsmith

Romilly Park not only housed the annual Barry Show, but often the circus, when real animals were allowed! Great to see the parade coming down Holton Road making its way to Romilly Park as "the circus comes to town" The Barry Show ...Read more

A memory of Barry in 1964 by Haydn Ebbs

My father was in the USAF and at the age of 7 I was living in Hemingford Abbotts and stayed there for 3 years. I enjoyed the three years there. We lived in a bungaloo and in back of the bungaloo was a trailer park. We ...Read more

A memory of Hemingford Abbots in 1958 by Linda Harrington

In 1973 having just left school that summer, I started my State Registered Nurse training with tutor Miss Wilmot at this Southernhay Hospital. Being a 'young lady' from Bristol my new colleagues and I were ...Read more

A memory of Exeter in 1973 by Heather Uden

The same company from the eighties are still sitting together in the noughties (2009) !! Catherine, Kirsty and Jacqui Sala, Greig and Shirley Ann Beveridge, Vikki Law, Sarah Diggan and the infamous but loveable rough Jim Morgan! ...Read more

A memory of Kinglassie in 2009 by Catherine Sala

I see the Eight Bells, right next to the Palmer Hall. I was too young to drink in the pub at the time of this photograph, but this was a very convenient situation in later years. At the time of the photo my family had been living in The ...Read more

A memory of Fairford in 1948 by Geoffrey Herbert

I lived in Hounslow and Whitton until I was 18 and went to college. We were here all through the war except for six months when we we were bombed out by a doodlebug which fell about 100 yards from our house in Ark Close. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1940 by Gill Price

Hi, I'm very interested in Carolle's Ladd family memories as mine are so similar. You see photograph No. 2 of the High Street; the buildings to the left are Clark & Son's shops and the old house between them where my ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1955 by Stanley Butcher

I was sent to Lower Bynamman in 1970, to work building up a huge 2400 Marion excavator for Sir Lindsey Parkinson at the GCG (Tyor Gwaith?) opencast site. I lodged at the Bryannam hotel with Dez and ...Read more

A memory of Lower Brynamman in 1970 by Paul Leavett