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I was in Mill Chase school and I remember students' names like Dennis Osmond, Bill Phillips, Bill Pike, Christopher Bowers, Sam Moory and Susan Moory, Sandra Dent, Sandra Johns and Elizabeth Coyte. How I would ...Read more

A memory of Bordon in 1963 by Stephen Guay

Ryhill Reservoir was the place where my sister Mary took me in the summer months, mainly on Sundays, and at that time there was a small shop which sold ice cream and pop and also fishing nets attached to a bamboo cane; there were plenty ...Read more

A memory of Ryhill in 1961 by Roland Mitchell

I am trying to find out about number 12 Canterbury Street, Gillingham, Kent. It was at the High Street end - a small alleyway led to a couple of small houses behind the shops. There was a toy shop called Bakers opposite St ...Read more

A memory of Chatham in 1962 by Julie Tarrant

I went to Meonstoke School in 1976, soon after moving back to Hampshire from Cornwall. We lived for a while with my Gran Tricia Howe at Govers Cottage, who still lives there today! The School always smelt of Germolene!

A memory of Meonstoke in 1976 by Catherine Howe

As a small boy, my father-in-law Derek Munson was evacuated with his siblings to Crawley. They stayed at a farm house (which was later owned by Peter Butterworth - any further info on this would be much appreciated) but used to go to ...Read more

A memory of Crawley in 1940 by Jo Munson

I was born in 4 The Nursery in 1944. My gran Elizabeth Bayles, my mother Emma Bayles. I went to Millbank School at age 4yrs. I can remember my first teacher there Miss Watkins. My Mother worked at Lockeys buses as a bus ...Read more

A memory of West Auckland in 1953 by Christine Bayles

I wonder if anyone is old enough to remember Westgate on Sea before the war! Our family would go there every year for 2 weeks and stay at a guest house not far from where the railway crosses the road ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea in 1930

I lived at Gilfach Street during the 70s+80s and remember all the fun + games we had. Some of the most happiest days of my life and I met a very good friend Biily Macauliffe from New Tredegar. I wonder where he is these days and would ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed in 1979 by Christopher Szmytki

I did my national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps at the Connaught Military Hospital during 1957 and 1958. I worked in the pathology dept., ending up as Corporal. I remember the Gurkha patients coming, I think in the ...Read more

A memory of Hindhead in 1957 by Philip Reid

I was born in Lound in 1937 and lived there until I was called up for national service December 1957. My grandparents were the last family to farm at East View farm, the farmhouse is now a private house, the land was sold ...Read more

A memory of Lound in 1940 by Kenneth Wagstaff