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I was born in Slough in 1938. It was in Buckinghamshire then. I eventually lived in Denham, Buckinghamshire (see my posting for Memories of Denham in the Middlesex listing). Since I left England in 1959, the changes ...Read more

A memory of Slough in 1955 by w.m.smith

My grandfather was GM of Glory Mill in the early 1900s. My father and his siblings were raised in a house located on the grounds. There were four brothers and all served in the British ...Read more

A memory of Wooburn Green in 1920 by Jack Eccles

My grandfather Ernest Ladd, born Eastry 1878, is buried in the churchyard. Although as a child when visiting my grandmother we would tend the grave and put flowers on it, I only have a vague recollection of its location. My mother and ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1950 by Carole Jewett

I was born in Lower Shillingford (Shillingford Abbot) in 1939. My grandparents Francis and Jane Wakely lived in Rectory Cottage, Higher Shillingford (Shillingford St George). My grandfather was gardener at the rectory. ...Read more

A memory of Shillingford St George by Rosemary Morris

My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved to ...Read more

A memory of Veryan in 1890 by Donald Johns

I cannot remember a time where Flimby did not feature in my life. My father was born on Ryehill Road, and my grandfather was born and bred in Flimby. It once was a pit village and my grandfather John Watters was an engineer, his father was the ...Read more

A memory of Flimby by Sharon Swallow

Not sure how long I went with my grandparents, then when they passed away my parents, but I was born in 1941 and I know we were still going there until we migrated to Australia in 1961. We 'lived' in the first hut on the right ...Read more

A memory of Paddock Wood

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A memory of Langley in 1945 by Timothy Bonser

As a child my father frequently told me that his father was buried next to John Peel in Caldbeck graveyard. I now live in Australia, but in 1997 I visited Caldbeck hoping to see my grandfather's grave. Unfortunately it was not in ...Read more

A memory of Caldbeck in 1997 by Mary Lillington

I was born just around the corner from this photo, in Ward Stree, it's now a car park. This junction is going through yet another re vamp. As a teenager I would visit the Aboretum with friends and race the boats across the pond and get told ...Read more

A memory of Walsall in 1966 by Roger Murphy