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My mum was born in Rock Street in 1921, her parents were Fred and Nellie Ashton. Although I was born in Oldham in 1946 we moved down south when I was about 2 or 3 because my Dad, a Wiltshire man, didn't want to live in Oldham. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Oldham by Val Mundy

My grandparents lived in Ditcheat; Sarah and Hubert Burrows. They had three daughters, Elisabeth (Bessie), Gertrude (Gertie), Pamela and also a son Mettford (Mett) Burrows. My mother Pamela, like her siblings, was ...Read more

A memory of Ditcheat in 1952 by Pam Mears

I was born in 1933. I am the only son of Irvine Reed Jones whose father had the butchers shop in Pontlottyn about that time. My cousin, Howard Jones (father Fred Jones), owned the DIY/hardware shop in Pontlottyn until ...Read more

A memory of Pontlottyn by Barry Jones

My brother and I were evacuated to Wiltshire during the middle of WW2 - he staying with two very dear old ladies, and me with my aunt and her two children whilst her husband was away in the Air Force. They were from Harrow and we ...Read more

A memory of Oare in 1940 by Audrey Pollard

I was but a young lad of 13 when I were to stay in a small village called Oare with my brother-in-law and sister within a cottage of which was named the China Cottages. The cottages originally had ceilings as low as five feet ...Read more

A memory of Milton Lilbourne in 1963 by Roland Mitchell

My name is Vivienne. I was born in Yeovil in December 1953. My father was Graham Stanley George Adams born March 1926. He had four brothers: Stewart Roland Adams (Married Phyllis), Maurice Escort Adams (Married Jean Hallett, ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1957 by Vivienne Moss

After leaving school in 1952 jobs around Theale were mainly farming, Parker Timber Co. or Theale brewery. I worked at the brewery until I joined the army in 1954. I worked with Derek Parsons, Ron Cole, Ken Duckett, Bert Minchin the ...Read more

A memory of Theale in 1952 by Terry Davis

Some of you may remember me from reading this! Some of you may choose to forget! More than likely the latter! Sadly, My brother was the main trouble maker in the village and wherever he went, I had to go with him, he ...Read more

A memory of Ludgershall by Steve Dixon

The Medieval Treasure Bristol Gave Away. The Bristol Cross is one of the smaller architectural treasures of Britain - but it's one which Bristol's worthies were only too glad to give away. Today the Cross ...Read more

A memory of Stourhead by Paul Townsend

I think the date at 1974 is correct but I would have been 6 then!! We owned all of what is Beechbarrow now and as a young man I had the run of the place! I hope the beech walk is still there, I built my first tree house in ...Read more

A memory of Wells in 1974 by Chris Styles