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I have great memories of Matfield Green. My mum and dad would pack up all our kit, put it into a large van then we would be taken from Lewes in East Sussex to the cherry orchard in Matfield Green. The cherry orchard was on the ...Read more

A memory of Matfield in 1964 by John Arnold

My paternal ancestors (Box) owned the iron foundry down by the Bude canal in Marhamchurch until the coming of the railway in the mid 1800s. Many are buried in the churchyard. My maternal grandparents (Nichols) lived in Marhamchurch in ...Read more

A memory of Bude in 1860 by Meg Leng

My Grandparents were Charlie and Mary Solomon, they lived in Timaru House on the main road. They had five children Bert, Les, Evelyn, Geoff and my mother Gwen. My Aunt Evelyn married Edward Williams who was ...Read more

A memory of St Columb Minor by Noreen Keenleyside

I grew up in Elm, as did my dad, in his days he had the tram, and canal, lots of fields and very few houses. In my days of growing up, we had plenty of apple orchards to play in and only 2 estates, within the past 10 years or so we now have ...Read more

A memory of Elm by Anita Bowles

I moved to wigmore in 1950 from liss in Hampshire . I was 4 years old and started school at the camp school off the maidstone road . I remember outside the main canteen was a large fish pond and all our classrooms were ...Read more

A memory of Wigmore by rosesalfie2c

My mother's family lived in Sturry all their lives. My Mum and her 3 siblings were born at 4 High Street and lived there for years. She even met my Dad there as he lived a short time at 3 High Street. My grandfather was head ...Read more

A memory of Sturry by jonsimzadi

Powerstock was my local village from 1951 to 1963. We lived at Kings House Farm at the foot of Eggardon Hill. My father Eddie Whitaker farmed (the hill rented and his 13 acres) for 12 or so years before ...Read more

A memory of Powerstock in 1951 by Peter Whitaker

Can anybody help with information, memories or photos of a former children's home in Epping New Road, in Buckhurst Hill? I spent part of my childhood in a ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill in 1955 by The Frith Memory Archivist

I was a boy at Burrow Hill School. I remember the head master's name was Mr Tangy, my house was Orchard, I was there for about a year. Some of the boys I remember were, Macmanus, King, Clark and one boy who always wore a ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1950 by Cecil Osman

I remember the small apple orchard at the bottom of Church Road near the school, climbing over the fence and scrumping and filling my pockets, then getting back over the fence and with horror seeing the farmer (Mr ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1953 by Mavis Smith