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I have many memories from Hounslow and I have enjoyed reading the ones here on this Frith website. My name was Rita Pilbrow and I lived with my mum and dad and 2 older sisters, Claudette and June, in Lampton ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow by Rita Faith Pilbrow Carlson

We were brought up in Wroughton and my dad worked at Burderop hospital as a nurse in the 1970s to the very early 1980s. We had a staff house in the grounds of the hospital. I have so many happy childhood memories of being brought ...Read more

A memory of Wroughton by Heather Turley

I lived as a child in Down Road, Alveston (at Barton Cottage - now demolished) from 1959 to 1964 and have great memories of Thornbury. Having no car in those days the family would march down the hill into Thornbury to Mass on ...Read more

A memory of Thornbury in 1959 by Paul Martin

It brought it all back to me after reading comments by Jeff Garry. The lady he refers to as his 'Nan' was my great aunt Jean. I vividly recollect spending 2 weeks with Aunt Jeannie and Uncle Bob when they ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town in 1948 by James Banks

We moved to Chaldon from Purley in 1963 to live at 20 Roffes Lane in Little Bindles, which was the middle of three thatched cottages built in the 1920s by a builder to live in with his houskeeper one side and his ...Read more

A memory of Chaldon in 1963 by David Manley

My earliest memories of Warsash was when I was 15 years old and being driven from Southampton, by my father, to look at a factory he had recently bought on Warsash Road. The 'factory' turned out to be an old motorcycle ...Read more

A memory of Warsash in 1960 by Richard Barron

We used to own the Katherine holiday flats on the front at Fleetwood. We had a lovely time living there and we still go back to visit. Unfortunately the Pier was burnt to the ground in 2008 and there is now ...Read more

A memory of Fleetwood in 2000 by Hannah Avery

We stayed in a chalet near the tuck shop behind the dunes. Me, my brothers and sisters. I recall one year we were sitting on the roof of the chalet and some Navy fighter planes flew just over our heads nearly knocking us ...Read more

A memory of Talacre in 1968 by Adam Tomkinson

I lived in Higham for 2 years before moving to Canada. I had 4 children who attended a school in Vancouver BC named Charles Dickens School. After 6 years I took a trip back to the UK with my wife and kids. I went to Higham and we were ...Read more

A memory of Higham by Clive Jeffrey

Dear Readers, This is a brief extract from a book I have written called 'The Old Time' about West Wycombe and High Wycombe between 1947 and 1961 describing a day when we went over to Hell Bottom woods picking ...Read more

A memory of West Wycombe in 1953 by John Comer