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Both my husband and I have lived in Fareham all our lives and we are researching our family histories. His grandfather, we believe, used to sell fruit from a barrow in West Street, Fareham, near the top of Portland Street in the 1940s and ...Read more

A memory of Fareham by Penny Barnard

My sister Catherine and I attended Laleham Abbey from 1947-1952. Sister Margaret Rose was the Head and Sister Catherine Mechtilde her Deputy. We were sent away to boarding school after various entrance exams to day schools. My ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1950 by Clare Glover Wright

My great-grandfather had a pub named the Cricketers Inn in Wrecclesham Street, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey. His name was Edwin Daniel George Coombs. His son Sidney William Coombs was a brewer's assistant on the ...Read more

A memory of Wrecclesham in 1900 by Patricia Butler

I am Leslie Harlan Bourgoin, and I remember changing at the Farnham train station each morning to board the school coach bound for Clare Park. My sister Mary Lynn and I were American girls who lived in Farnborough in the early 1960's ...Read more

A memory of Farnham by Leslie Harlan Bourgoin

I can remember watching in awe as the cattle was walked to the market (now a car park) through the High and West Street..pigs, sheep, cows, chickens etc and standing up on the temporary fencing reaching over to ...Read more

A memory of Fareham in 1962 by Jean Oxtoby (Wigmore)

First Day of School Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the ...Read more

A memory of Egham in 1954 by Keith O'brien

I was born at Parkgate, and came to live in Gudgeheath Lane, Fareham in 1940 at the age of 2. Gudgeheath lane was a proper lane in those days, nothing like today. I played in the cornfield and woods and went to Funtley School. ...Read more

A memory of Fareham by carole

I was born at Parkgate, and came to live in Gudgeheath Lane, Fareham in 1940 at the age of 2. Gudgeheath lane was a proper lane in those days, nothing like today. I played in the cornfield and woods and went to Funtley School. The Hammond ...Read more

A memory of Fareham by carole

I was drafted from Cranleigh swimming pool in 1971 when the operation of the pool was taken over by Waverly Council. The pool was quite run down and in the winter of 1971 Waverly Council managed to allocate funds to ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1971 by George Trask

Lochgilphead in 1955---Super holiday at the Castle---Calum Kennedy in the café--Road to the Isles and TheHiking song. Gerald Garnham Lincoln

A memory of Lochgilphead by Gerald Garnham