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I was born at 12 Ashwood Avenue on Peel Brow estate Ramsbottom in 1952. My father after being demobbed from the eighth army in 1945 had always and continued to work in cotton mills. In 1960 ...Read more

A memory of Stubbins by david

This site caught my attention when I was looking for information on Farley Croft in UK. Someone had written about being a nurse there. It was a lovely old house in Westerham and during WWII it was taken over as a children's hospital. ...Read more

A memory of Allt-yr-yn by rbbrett2004

This is Croft Castle but it is not in Ross-on-Wye. It is in Bircher, just outside Yarpole in Herefordshire. I now live next door to it. Lovely place in lovely National Trust area

A memory of Ross-on-Wye

I went to Tylers Croft from 1959 to 1964. Brilliant school days and loads of happy memories. Some names that come to mind are: Clive White, Richard White, Fred Lodge, Trevor Campbell, Alan Hobden, Alan Bell, Eric Cooper, Eric Davis, ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by Richard Akehurst

My first recollection of life in Whiston was as a small child waking up at my Grandma's house on the morning she moved from near the crossroads to a newly built bungalow in Birchall Ave.(although her family had lived in Whiston for a few ...Read more

A memory of Whiston

In the foreground is the SMNCo.'s TSMV "New Prince Of Wales I" [a 75ft vessel built by Hayward's Boatyard, Burdett Road, at the back of the Kursaal] ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

In 1924 my grandparents Charles and Maud Kleboe bought The Croft, Church Road. The Croft is the house with the For Sale sign. They bought it from Mrs Procter, the widow of Dr Procter, who was famous for visiting ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham by jimandmichelewood

If anyone has pictures of the above I would be very interested,as I was born at that address when my mother was evacuated there from the Coventry bombings in 1941.Fred Dawson was my dads cousin. Thanks Malcolm Croft

A memory of Worksop by mjrcroft

My mother in law stayed in this house with her mother,father and 3 brothers when it was a Croft..she stayed here from 1935-mid 40’s..she had to walk over 6 miles to school over the hills carrying her block of ...Read more

A memory of Backhill of Bush (Bothy)

I moved to Ham in 1959 from Kew and left in 1984 after coming back from a short spell of living abroad with work. I went to St. Andrew's school (now St. Matthias' church) then, St Richards with St Andrews on Ashburnham Rd. We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Ham in 1965 by Ray Gillon