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Since about the 1960s, Child Okeford became a totally different community from the one I first got to know in the early 1930's. The Watts (Harry and Dorothy) had farmed out of Laurel Farm for many decades and ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1930 by Pauline Bullen

I was born in 1946 lived in Lifton until I got married in 1971. I lived in Fore St next door lived Mr Brown he used to repair shoes in his little shed in the garden I used to watch him working. just a few doors away Bill Keast he was ...Read more

A memory of Lifton in 1960 by Brian Keighley

This photograph was taken in the year my father was born in the house which is just out of sight at the far left-hand side of the picture (No. 2). I was also born in the same house 33 years later. Most of the ...Read more

A memory of Stamford by John Riley

As a child brought up in Yorkshire, we spent holidays visiting family across the Pennines; mother's family in Liverpool and father's in Runcorn. Although he had done well, now a country doctor, father always seemed to think he ...Read more

A memory of Runcorn by Rob Oldfield

The shop on the left was where I lived as a child.  My father (Ron Stone) bought the property which was an old doctor' surgery and transformed it into a general store.  My Mum and Dad used to open the shop in the evenings ...Read more

A memory of Milton Regis by Lynda Hollister

I well remember the doctor's clinic referred to - it was halfway up the hill on the same side as the Squirrel. I have unpleasant memories of getting "the needle" there when I was about five or so. The smell of that purple ...Read more

A memory of Pontycymer in 1960 by Clive Jones

I moved to Binfield with my parents Rose and Cyril Richardson and my brother Brian in 1946. We lived in Rose Hill at a house called “Athlone”.  It isn’t there any more, it was demolished and six houses built on the ...Read more

A memory of Binfield by Terry Richardson

My brother and I went to a camp organised by The Childrens Country Holiday Fund for boy's living in South East London from poor backgrounds in the 1950's. The camp was run by a priest and volunteers who organised ...Read more

A memory of Norman's Bay in 1958 by John Spreadbury

In 1911 my great uncle, Bernard Tomkys, was aged 54 and lived with his sister Mildred (single and aged 45) and a domestic servant called Bessie Hughes (single and aged 19). Bernard Tomkys was a doctor, a GP in medicine and ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1910

My name is Shirley Dobberson, we moved from eastend of London toSouth Okendon 1957 , lived in south road next to the hostpital.My mum was Maud the rag lady, she used to drive ahorse and cart, my dad was afarrier.l had two brothers ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon in 1960 by Shirley Bristow