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Now aged 70, this week with much interest I visited Nelson for the first time. My name is Nicola Pugh. I was born in London and adopted at the age of 5 months. The documents relating to my adoption were signed ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by nicolampugh

I'm always interested to read memories of Gildersome. I have just visited in October 2018. Just a short visit but it certainly hasn't changed in some respects. The streets are narrower from what I remember but street lane and ...Read more

A memory of Gildersome by katestengl

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms ...Read more

A memory of Wythenshawe by christopher.bowden

I may be wrong but the entrance on the right looks like the entrance into the Doctor’s Surgery. My Doctor was Doctor Summers, an elderly gentleman (well to me). I can remember him once telling my Mum that Australia needed young people ...Read more

A memory of Burnham

I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

I lived in Balham from the year I was born until 1963 when my family moved. I went to Henry Cavendish School and remember the swimming pool being built after a lot of fund raising. Mr Bassett was the music teacher and wrote many musicals ...Read more

A memory of Balham

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

Adjacent to the shop (owned then by Mr Foxwell), and between the small playground, is a narrow pathway which leads up to Penrhiw, where I lived at number 9 for many years. Went to Shrewsbury for an apprenticeship, the same as ...Read more

A memory of Dyffryn Ardudwy by Frederick Hughes

'Doctor' John Junes was my grandfather. He was the local chemist and, I believe, the local postmaster. He was married to Margaretta (my grandmother). Their daughter Anne Jane (Nancy) Jones married my grandfather, Josiah ...Read more

A memory of Pontybodkin in 1890 by Errol Chandler