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Alan Clarkson the subpostmaster at Preesall was my great uncle. After retiring from the Post Office he and his wife Rizpah moved to a house called Grasmere in Pilling Lane Preesall. It was the first house on the right as you turn into the ...Read more

A memory of Preesall by gjdewhurst

My memory of Loventor Manor dates back to August 1970 when it was a hotel. My husband Colin and I chose it as our honeymoon destination all those years ago. At the time it was quite expensive for a week's holiday - all of 19 ...Read more

A memory of Loventor Manor by Jo Mason

My Aunt and Uncle i do believe had a habadashery shop in Dalton in Furness. I am going back to the 50s or 60s. Their names were Ann and Kenneth Jennings. My cousins Anne and Peter i have been trying to locate. They would ...Read more

A memory of Dalton-In-Furness by johnandhazel2

1955 - I was sent to the hotel with my mother to recuperate after a month in Nottingham isolation hospital with measles. We spent 6 blissful weeks here. My memories are of a very high ceiling in the dining room and the smell of the food ...Read more

A memory of Catsfield by chyandowr

Our family moved here from Plymouth in the mid fifties Have fond memories of days spent on the beach when we were children. We lived in Armada Road and in a rented property near the Old Ship Inn. Things I remember were having ...Read more

A memory of Cawsand by stephen.foster27

I grew up (I hesitate to say I reached adulthood) on Pickup Bank, the moors around Hoddlesden in the 1950s to 60s. Went to Hoddlesden school and from thence to Darwen Grammar School. I would like to place on ...Read more

A memory of Hoddlesden by poplars1

Memories of the old Portavogie by Lena McVea. I used to live facing the harbour and a newspaper item on late Robin Drysdale, former Mayor of Newtownards, brought back fond memories of him, as a young boy, sailing in ...Read more

A memory of Portavogie by lenamcvea

My husband and I bought 178 Langdown Road in September 1965, and moved in with 2 boys, Nick and Paul and a 3 day old daughter,Rebecca, she was supposed to be born in our new house, but couldn't wait long enough. It is the second ...Read more

A memory of Hythe by jean

As an Essex Police Cadet I went to the Eskdale Outward Bound Centre in 1964/65 where I was subsequently elected the leader of Young Patrol. Every morning between 6-7am we were woken and had to run down to the lake and ...Read more

A memory of Eskdale Green by b12ley

Hello, the year 1944/45, my mother had put up with the V1 ‘s being dropped near us, we lived on the out skirts of London. A V2 was dropped one day, killing 22 people at the bottom of the road where we lived. So with ...Read more

A memory of Lambley by chrisrob1942