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My grandparents lived in Addlewell Lane, Yeovil. It backed onto the railway track and I used to wave to the engine drivers. We went for the school holidays every year until about 1961. At the end of Addlewell Lane was the tanning ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1960 by Julie Davis

Regarding your message, Jennifer Paley nee Bradford. It was so good to see the picture of Invicta Knitting Mills again and to hear you had worked there. It was very sad to see it today, as my father in ...Read more

A memory of South Kirkby in 1958 by Maureen Briddon

Enjoyed my childhood (memories from 1947 onwards) living on "the fronts" Great North Road, with friends, some of them I am still in touch with - John Hudson, Kathleen Hudson, Kathleen ...Read more

A memory of Woodlands by Maureen Briddon

My Grandparents Mr and Mrs Childs owned the Fox Pub in the village during the second world war. My mother Sheila lived with her grandparents there. It only had a tiny bar and was opposite another larger public house so do not ...Read more

A memory of Winkfield Row in 1940 by Heather Collins

there stood on frimley green road was a sweet shop. two lovely ladies used to serve behind counter.use to love going there after school . the shop however stood there for sometime above the shop the name just barely see The Mons ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Janet Ingate

My memories of Vigo camp Meopham My memories of Vigo are somethings I will never forget. I was born in Chatham, Kent in 1948. For reasons unknown to me, we ended up in a Vigo camp. The Nissen hut we were in must have been ...Read more

A memory of Meopham by champersmk

This is not about the Norwegian Mission. If you look to the left of the Mission in the background you can see the Hassenbrook School Annexe. I lived in Corringham and went to Herd Lane Junior School. I started at Herd Lane ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope by thestockies

To see the Boarden Bridge as it was then and now, you might be interested in watching a very short video. If so, copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://youtu.be/Zv7mmA97vxw

A memory of Godalming in 1900 by Peter Tietjen

When I was a small child I was taken to my aunt and uncle's house at 59 New Bank, Halifax - this was a house over shops. The house was one up and down with gas lighting and a cellar and also an attic room (where visitors slept). I ...Read more

A memory of Halifax in 1952

I Lived in Bulford Camp from 1942 - 1958 and attended Wing School. The street the school was on was Bond St. A street of terraced corrigated iron houses, inhabited by civillian workers. My family and I returned in ...Read more

A memory of Bulford in 1958 by Brian Williams