Maps

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Memories

1,299 memories found. Showing results 551 to 560.

1942 1949

I was born at Danbury Palace in Danbury and lived at Marks Farm bungalow in Rettendon. I remember getting frightened of the storms on the way home from Rettendon School. I remember walking home from school up Chalk Street. My ...Read more

A memory of Rettendon in 1942 by Margaret Dennis

My First Camping Trip

My dad took me and my two older brothers for a weeks holiday in a tent. We arrived in Hope Cove to a glorious sunset and put the tent up in a field with cows in it. I remember my dad frying a breakfast on a primus stove. My ...Read more

A memory of Hope Cove in 1964 by Donald Macdonald

Leverington Student Camp

Hi - I dont know when it started or ended - but I was a part of it in the seasons 1975 and 76. It was at that time mainly Egyptian and Turkish students coming to make a few quids under the pretention to be learning ...Read more

A memory of Leverington by Iver Holter Andersen

Blackdown Camp (Possibly Victoria Road)

These army quarters were demolished in the 1980s or 1990s and are in Blackdown Camp (near Deepcut and now part of Deepcut).

A memory of Deepcut in 1900 by Gordon Lumsden

Kennylands Camp School

My best friend and I attended Suttons Secondary Boys School in Hornchurch Essex, and both of us were fortunate to be chosen to attend a two month summer term at Kennylands, situated at Sonning Common Berkshire. ...Read more

A memory of Sonning Common in 1947 by Denman Lalonde

The Green East Hanney

I moved to East Hanney in 1956 at the age of 4, we moved to Manor Farm Cottage just behind the centre of the photo. the large tree on the left was known as "the big tree" and it was said that Oliver Cromwell camped there, ...Read more

A memory of East Hanney in 1956 by Timothy Gibbs

The 1960s

I lived my early years here, until the 1970's, having been born in Wells and brought home to Cheddar as a baby. I have many family ancestral links to Cheddar via my father's parents. In the late 1800's-early 1900's my great-grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Cheddar by Christine Derrick

Wading In The Bristol Channel

It is quite possible that the the little boy to the right in this picture is me at age six. My family used to stay at a friend's caravan in the park above the cliffs. During the summers of 1954 through 1958 we ...Read more

A memory of Lavernock in 1955 by Phillip Armour

Happy Holidays

My husband, myself and 2 daughters have spent many happy holidays camping in Penally in the 1970s and early 1980s. We camped in a field near the pub owned by a farming family, the sun always shone, we spent hours on the beautiful ...Read more

A memory of Penally in 1976 by sue

A Great Childhood

I've got such fond memories of my mum pushing me up and down Daccombe in the pram and putting me on the horses at Henry Fogwell's farm where she kept her horse Danny. There were a lot of horses down there at one time and everyone ...Read more

A memory of Daccombe in 1975 by Michaela Hooper

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