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This field was behind our house and is accessed from a path that runs along the churchyard wall. From the age of about 7, I spent many a happy hour with my dog Shep - just wandering around the field looking at the Buttercups, ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1962 by Lynn Quigley

Escaping from his mammoth wife, Gran Con, who could eat a whole chicken at one sitting, Great Grandad Stickland fled Street in Somerset and took lodgings in the F&H. He suffered nightmares, and the person ...Read more

A memory of Funtington in 1930

I am doing my family tree. Francis Evans was my great-great-grandfather, he was born around 1802 and married a Hannah in 1828, they lived in Staveley until he died in 1876. I am trying to find out my ...Read more

A memory of Staveley

My family moved into Howdendyke upon completion of the Airey Houses when I was two years old. We lived at 4, Ferry Road which was the main street into Howdendyke. As I grew, reaching nursery school age and ...Read more

A memory of Howdendyke by John Jessop

My mum was born in Borth y Gest and went to school there too and eventually marry at the church on the harbour front in 1956. My Grandad continued living there with my Grandmother until he died in 1984. Every ...Read more

A memory of Borth-y-Gest in 1957 by Susan Harpham

Lovely to see the mention of Wheatsheaf Cottages. My grandparents lived in the opposite end cottage to Mrs Scroggins. Their surname was Pond. I remember the name of Mrs Scroggin very well as I believe she helped look ...Read more

A memory of Little Burstead in 1955

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, Louise Lomas, grew up at no. 58 Snape Hill Crescent, Dronfield with my mum and dad and sister Dawn and Brian Lomas and Nicola, oh and not forgetting Benjamin our border collie dog. My grandad, James Marples, lived at number 52 Snape ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield in 1870 by Louise Nee Lomas

This is not actually my memory, I am hoping someone will know of or remember the Rouse family who lived in Hemley. My ggg grandfather was born c1785 in Hemley and I am trying to trace any ancestors. Joseph joined the army in 1806, ...Read more

A memory of Hemley by Lynda Chantler

During the early Second World War years there was considerable construction along the Barton beach and the cliff top to hinder any possible designs of the dastardly twins on our rural paradise. These constructions used to be a major ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1951 by Roger Williams