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My mum Barbara Wiltshire [nee Pritchard] was brouhgt up here with her 11 brothers and sisters. She is always reminding us that she had to walk 3 miles to school and one of her brothers used to bunk off and hide in the woods ...Read more

A memory of Burley in 1920 by Lyn Cook

I have driven up and down the M5 so many times and seen a monument on top of the Blackdown Hills.  Each time I passed I wondered what it was and so eventually I got hold of an Ordnance Survey map and ...Read more

A memory of Wellington in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I attended the primary school, just down the Maldon Road from the garage in the photo, which was run by Mr Holmes.  The sweet-shop behind the pumps was popular with us kids!  Headmaster of the primary school was Mr ...Read more

A memory of Great Totham in 1960 by Peter Saunders

My Grandma - Bertha Lanaghan - lived in Third Street for over 50 years. She made hookey rugs as big as a room from old blankets, coats, etc whatever she could get, to sell for extra money. She dyed the wool three ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery by Kathy Ames

I was born at Newton On Ouse in March 1928. At the age of five I attended the local school whose headmaster was Alf Bradbury. Also at the age of five I began visiting Village Farm that was owned by ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1930 by Guy Jefferson

William Leech moved from St Martins in the Field, London to 20 Duke Street,  Chelmsford in 1794. There he started up his gun maker's shop. Later he moved to 3 &4 Tindale Street, Chelmesford. ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by Ann Jones

I was living at Bishopstoke and working as a lad at Cunliff Owen Aircraft during that cold war time winter when a friend that lived in Fair Oak told me that Fishers pond was frozen over and people were skating on it. ...Read more

A memory of Fisher's Pond in 1943 by Frederick Cannock

When I was five years old , Mum Dad and me moved to Bubwith in to a house by the Derwent called Riversleigh. My memories are many and varied from the five years I lived there. The house opposite ...Read more

A memory of Bubwith in 1950 by Judith St John

I was born in St. James Hospital. The family home was at Louisville Road Tooting. I went to Hilbrook Infants School, (I fell in love, like all the boy's did, with Mrs Cooper). Just around the corner ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Mike Pierce

My grandparents had a shop in Harbour Street, I am looking for a picture with their name above the shop.... C.A LIGGINS I would love a picture to give to my mother as it holds very precious memories for her. Thankyou

A memory of Whitstable in 1955