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After attending Newton village school from the age of 5 to 14, I found employment at a place called Tholthorpe where a new airfield was being built. Being 12 miles from my home I had to use a bicycle to get there ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1989 by Guy Jefferson

MY YOUNG DAYS AT CATHERINGTON, RANDELLS COTTAGE, LINKHORN Born in 1942 in Cornwall, my early years of school were at Clanfield. My holidays were spent at my grandmother’s house at Randells Cottage, my father was ...Read more

A memory of Catherington in 1947 by Chris Girlow

My husband and I were married at St Margaret's Church in January 1970, we were married by the REV ROXBOUGH, he was a very gentle man and he and his wife moved to Devon in the 80s or there abouts. We went ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1970

I am a descendant of the first Hintons to live in this hamlet since 1066 - according to an old manuscript I am researching. I have found several very interesting items I will be including in my updating of this ...Read more

A memory of Hinton-in-the-Hedges by Margie Hinton

I came to Hinton a lot in the 1970s as my aunty and uncle, Mrs and Mrs Good, rented Yew Tree House and Brook Farm Cottage. Mr Good was stationed at Upper Heyford and was in the US Airforce. His wife Rita was my mum's ...Read more

A memory of Hinton-in-the-Hedges in 1970 by Laura Steen

I went to Netherside between 1965-1968 and remember raiding the kitchen very well, I was sacked from being the first team footy captain and stopped from being head boy, made deputy of dorm instead. A heavy price to pay, ...Read more

A memory of Grassington in 1965 by Peter Hurst

I was a child that lived at the 'Sister Butler's orphanage' in the early I960s.  This message is to anyone that was also at the orphanage at that time, particularly Alison Burbidge, as I have read her account ...Read more

A memory of Hinton Martell in 1960 by Mark Smith

My family, the Wilkinsons, were Lockeepers from 1851, and left between 1891 and 1901.

A memory of Linton-on-Ouse in 1860 by Angela Wilkinson

My paternal grandparents lived and worked at Polesden Lacey from circa 1899 to 1906, under, first, Sir Clinton Dawkins and then later Mrs Greville. Their first born was at a large house in Leatherhead; their second born was ...Read more

A memory of Leatherhead by Edward Penning

I lived in Clinton Road, Shirley from 1950 to 1956 when we moved to Smethwick. At the time it was a cul-de-sac and we lived at number 95 right at the end. There was a wood next to us with a wide path though it to Widney Lane. There was ...Read more

A memory of Shirley in 1955 by David Hall