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This shot hasn't changed much on the right hand side at all. There is one more building towards us, out of shot, which is where the present day Co-op Store stands on the corner of Wells Street. The large building in ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by John Crouch

Our second son, Sam, was born very shortly after we moved to Thrussington from Kent in 1972. We'll never forget the kindness and support shown to us by people in the village where we had only been for three weeks. The following ...Read more

A memory of Thrussington in 1972 by Martin Johnson

I lived in Morcote Road when I was a little girl, and have memories of the schools I attended and the surrounding areas of Braunstone. I used to go to Bembow Rise School when I was quite small then moved on to Brausntone ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town in 1963 by Christine Brown Nee Pagett

Spent some time here down on the Dee, walking out to the middle at low tide, playing in the old gun garrison overlooking the Dee, until someone yelled "GHOST" and we ran like startled hares. My mother once said something ...Read more

A memory of Thurstaston in 1963 by Alan Sharp

I lived in Peel Street in Tipton from 1950 till 1966 when we left to live in Australia, I also attended Tipton Primary School, then Tipton Grammar School from 1961 to 1965 but I also remember Owen Street quite well. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Tipton by Edna Winn

My mother and some of her family were sent/lived in Fyfield Ongar for a short time during the Second World War. They moved there from West Ham in London. Her only memory of where she lived is that it was a large house with ...Read more

A memory of Fyfield in 1940 by Vivien Holden

My great grandmother was Margaret James who with her husband John, were tenent farmers near Calbeck from about 1897 to the late 1920's or early 1930's. My Mother told me that as a young girl, she, my Mother, spent her summers 'at the ...Read more

A memory of Caldbeck in 1960 by Carl Reade

1948 - onwards. My Mother and her two cousins were brought up by their Aunt and Uncle as above and I spent all my childhood holidays with them. Great Aunt Liz was well known for her teas for visitors and ramblers from CHA Porlock. ...Read more

A memory of Culbone in 1948 by Rose Marie Davies

My family were the first to occupy number 5 Tenter Lane, Warmsorth. I think that would be at the end of 1946. I have photos of myself and my older brother outside that house in the snows of 1947. We left in the summer of ...Read more

A memory of Levitt Hagg in 1947 by Enid Richardson

I regularly took a short cut through this graveyard when I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's. If it was dark or foggy it was very, very spooky and I used to run like hell - I was a good runner!!

A memory of Daventry by Martin Ellacott