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I was born at Ceri Road, Townhill. My mother was called Beatrice Gray, her maiden name was Cridland. When I was three I caught polio, just a year later my mother died. I spent a long time in the isolation hospital, Hill House ...Read more

A memory of Swansea in 1945 by Kathleen Gibson

Does anyone remember Jack and Barbara Mahon who lived at Mill House, and had a small pig farm for a very short time, c 1934 to 1936?

A memory of Felsted in 1930 by Barbara Bryant

A list of just some streets which have disappeared or changed their names since 1900. Barr's Street (Lane until 1848) - Milk Street to St James's Barton - demolished and built over post-war for Broadmead Shopping ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

This house I lived in when I was young, from 1933 untill 1954, but I now live in Devon near Exeter. I went to Rettendon School, and then to Wickford Senior School. Everybody knew me as Jerry Smith, it was a nickname, I used to ...Read more

A memory of Rettendon in 1940 by Walter Smith

These are not really memories although I do remember my father talking a lot about Meonstoke with affection. I have 2 old postcards and 2 old photos. The photos are of the building (I understand it was a Post Office at some date) ...Read more

A memory of Meonstoke in 1860 by Jo Ball

I have very early memories of Boxford Primary School. The school teachers were Mr and Mrs Alderman, Mr taught the older children and Mrs the young infants. I attended both, I started in the infants ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1964 by Michael Lipscombe

I have memories of my father writing to his aunt and uncle in Haverfordwest. They lived at Ferry Hill House, Llangwm Ferry. It sounded a lovely place but I never went there. I'd like to see a picture of it or hear from anyone who knew them. Their surname was Heap. Pentelow was another family name.

A memory of Haverfordwest by Pamela Jones

These are not my memories but those of my grandma, Beatrice May Fell. She was born in 1899 in Covenham St. Bartholomew in a small two up two down semi near todays Mill House Restaurant. Her family later moved within Covenham to what we ...Read more

A memory of Covenham St Mary

I lived in Mill House as a young child in the late 1940s with my parents and grandparents. My Grandfather bought Mill House and the mortgage cost them £2.7.9 (2 pounds 7 shillings and 9pence a month over 21 years (I ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne by peterwilmott

I went to a school called Fedsden Hall, in Roydon in Essex, in 1950-53. It was a wonderful place run by Mrs. Katherine Clare. Mrs. Clare lived in a big, beautiful Georgian house on the property, with her husband, who I ...Read more

A memory of Roydon by canadagoose