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My Great Grandad Frederick Ashfield was the Post Master at this Post Office, I have a photograph of him standing outside, where it looked like a grocery shop, I have a distant memory of being inside the Post Office, as a ...Read more

A memory of Horseheath by Sandra Millross

As the son of Bill and Madge Sharp I lived there, after the Horse and Groom in Humberstone Gate. I remember my dad having a fair few fights outside. Many war veterans told of their stories. My bedroom was at the back, overlooking the ...Read more

A memory of Leicester by Keiran Sharp

This photo was taken around 1960 as my father (who can be seen in the photo, cleaning the bedroom window) bought number 11, St Paul's Street in 1958 and did not open the barber shop for over a year. I was 5 years old when we moved ...Read more

A memory of Stamford in 1960 by Suzanna Sawyer

My mother, Betty Scott, later Betty Randalls, lived in a tiny cottage on the main road in Onich. She was a foster child and I believe looked after a gentleman in the cottage. She had friends called Kitty and Ruth and she also talked ...Read more

A memory of Onich in 1920 by Joyce Rawlings

I also went to the County High! My teacher was Miss Hewson, the music teacher was Miss Harris and Miss Bubbers, I can see her now storming down the corridor, she made me stand in front of her one day and talk without using my hands, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1952 by Patricia Kucukarslan

It was a fine summer evening in June and the dancers and musicians of the Heather and Gorse Clog Morris team met at The Old Inn at Widecombe to put on an entertainment ...Read more

A memory of Widecombe in the Moor in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

I lived in Towneley Terrace with my Auntie Etty and Uncle Bill Eltringham when my mother died. I remember the street lights coming back on after the war. Looking down at all the pretty lights was a ...Read more

A memory of High Spen in 1940 by Ena Taplin

Tom Grossmith, my grandmother's uncle, had a business in Surrey Street in the late 1800s making gaiters and knickerbockers. When I was 15 I would cycle to Croydon from Wallington to try to find his shop. There was a butcher's shop at ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1956 by Tony Mackinder

I remember staying at Porthledden House for the summer holidays. Rambling around the Cape, fishing,swimming and cycling. Names I remember Peter Farrell, my oldest friend in this world, a chap called Jacques with whom I played ...Read more

A memory of St Just in 1950 by Peter Wickens

Ironically this picture represents two important monuments relating to my maternal uncle. At St. Peter's Church on the right is where he sang as a choir boy. The war memorial on the left immortalizes his death in 1943 at ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate in 1943 by Carole Hudon