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In 1941, during the Second World War, and I was a page boy working at the Osborne Hotel. I always rode my cycle to work and back. I believe it was on a Sunday that I was pushing my cycle up the lane at the side of the Palace Hotel, I ...Read more

A memory of Torquay in 1942 by Eric Harwood

Before the railways (railroads) came, there was no particular reason why people in Bristol, England should keep the same time as people in London. At that time there was no practical way of communicating information about time over ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

It was either 1990 or 1991. The snow was deep and it was not worth the risk of travelling to college. Or was I skiving? So I spent the day building a snowman with some friends up on the grass over looking the Social Club. The next day we ...Read more

A memory of Cranwell by Anne Marie Silvester

I learned to ride at Pednor stables, run by Hilary with help from her husband. They had a motley but extremely well cared-for string of horses, which grew all the time. My favourite was a 4-yr-old exmoore called Kerry, who ...Read more

A memory of Pednor Bottom in 1971 by Annette Perry

It was in the summer of 1975 when I first travelled up to Stirling from Oxford, to spend a gloriously happy and memorable Open University summer school week at Stirling University ...Read more

A memory of University of Stirling in 1975 by Marjorie Alcock

Born in Northlands Drive, Pitsea in 1938, my first recollection was aged 3 years when I remember being put to bed in a cot under the kitchen table during an air raid. We had an Andersen shelter in the garden ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Mike Perry

If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the ...Read more

A memory of Shamley Green in 1954 by Patricia Clarke

My father built the square flat roofed house called Beverley on the sand dunes in the late 1920s next to the bungalow by the creek. It has since had two refurbishments, the first of which ...Read more

A memory of Anderby Creek in 1953 by John Stacey

I came to know Drummore when I met my husband in 1957. We married in 1960 and this year is our Golden Wedding. My memories of Drummore include Crawfords shop, The Queen's hotel with the great family feeling you got when ...Read more

A memory of Drummore in 1957 by Sheila Mc Gaw

My mum apparently worked in a cafe in Woolwich during 1955/56, it may have been near the market. I really need to know about all the cafes that were there at that time, who owned them? And does anyone remember the ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1956 by Linda Fletcher