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On behalf of my wife (Kathleen, nee Bromley) I am try to trace Gillian Cowking, believed to have been born December 1941 or thereabouts. Gillian worked for a while in Budapest and then later in Paris. Contact was then lost. Any info would be gratefully received. Thank you.

A memory of Lancaster by Dave Cleaver

I spent many happy times at the Cricketers when my mother Rose Marable ran and owned the pub in the 1950's I used to cycle there every Easter from Bromley, Kent to visit my mother and some of our family who lived with her. A lovely pub in a beautiful village.

A memory of Stockcross by j.porter71

Starting school for the first time was at Mistley Norman School, my first teacher was Miss Temple in the infants we were given a slate board and slate pencil one thing that sticks in my memory we all had a small mattres and ...Read more

A memory of Manningtree in 1949 by Vernon Clarke

Such a familiar sight - the High Street with what looks like a number 47 RT AEC bus approaching. I actually lived in Coney Hall, but Bromley was only a 5d ride away (or 6d to the North if going to the Odeon or Pullman ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Peter Leach

It's lovely to read all the fond memories of Heswall Hospital, I was a cadet there from Sept 1969 until May 1970 then returned in Sept 1970 for 3 more months. We took part in tjhe Christmas celebrations organised by ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1968 by Gina Shaw

Hi there folks, Just a little bit of memory, when I was a very young lad of one year old, we moved to Little Baddow from London, to Tofts Farm, there we stayed until 1966, developing the business, to include ...Read more

A memory of Little Baddow by Geoffrey Blocksidge

My name is Pauline Powell, my maiden name was Bromley. Where I lived on the corner of Moseley Road in Bilston there was a farm on the corner of the road called Dickie Bevan's farm, can anybody remember it? Us kids ...Read more

A memory of Bilston in 1947 by Pauline Powell

I was one of three children of a soldier stationed at Bramley Army camp. I remember being taken to my first day at school in Bramley village school in 1930 and I refused to go through the school gate. Therefter I went on a school ...Read more

A memory of Rotherwick in 1930 by John Beisly

My fathers parents, Edward and Winifred Simmons, ran the general stores in the Parade at Otford in the 1950s and early 1960s. My mother, her sister and parents, Grace and Alfred Maddock, lived in Bubblestone ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham in 1960 by Anne Helen Roberts

My first visit to Newchurch was to see my grandparents who rented a flat at the back of the vicarage. My grandfather was Alfred Rigden and my step grandmother was Dorothy, nee Billing. They were retired at the time, ...Read more

A memory of Newchurch in 1954 by Doreen Bishop