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Sometime in December of 1953 I was posted to Preswick Airport from London Airport, being a motor cycle Constable with what was then the Ministry of Civil Aviation Constabulary, for a tour of duty of one month, the police ...Read more

A memory of Kilmarnock in 1953 by John Forder

I was 8 years old when I arrived in Blandford. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a week before the Somerset and Dorset Railway closed on the 6th March 1966. My dad was in the Royal Signals and he was being posted to the 30th ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1966 by Raymond Parlett

I was born in 1955 and lived in Waunlwyd until I went away to University in 1973. I remember this row of shops very well as I was entrusted to shop for family and relatives who would pay me a small fee that I was saving up for ...Read more

A memory of Waun Lwyd in 1966 by Chris Hodson

My wife and myself are caretakers of Adam Lindsay Gordon Cottage, Dingleydell, near Port Macdonnell, South Australia, built 1862 and purchased by ALG in 1864. I am the present president of the Adam Lindsay Gordon ...Read more

A memory of Esslemont Ho by Allan Childs

I was born in 1943, I don't remember much until school years at Burrowbridge Primary, head teacher was Mr Brazier. My father used to be 'Jack of all trades', he used to recharge the old accumulaters, run the ...Read more

A memory of Burrowbridge in 1943 by Terry Storey

My nana was Toppy Dixon (nee Gossop) and lived in the white house mentioned by Julia - actually the house was called Woodlands. My grandad was Bert Dixon, he worked in the signal box at Staddlethorpe Station. I ...Read more

A memory of Gilberdyke by Susan Wakeford

On the left of the picture is the tall post on which the air raid siren is mounted, still there ten years after it was in service, I heard it several times before running to the "dugout" and before being ...Read more

A memory of Forty Hill by Derek P Arker

I grew up in Surrey Gardens, first at "Ceuta", then at White Croft. My father, Mr Crump, purchased the plot of land beside the footpath and the house was built 1947/8. During my childhood, Surrey Gardens ...Read more

A memory of Effingham by Angela Haddrill

Some time in the late 1950's, my best school friend's family moved to Ramsbury and ran the Post office. I used to catch the coach from London every year to stay with them during the summer holidays, and we had fun playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Ramsbury by Pat Catley

I was posted to the Hall after RAF basic training at West Kirby, where an Air Vice Marshall saw a mural illustrated map, another conscript (John Young) and I created, in the Education Hut. ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1949 by Ronald Gilbert