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Mother.

My mother worked in the cafeteria at lunch time, collecting the money from the students. She seemed to know everybody in the college and when she passed away at the young age of 48, it seemed that the whole of Swindon mourned with us. Swindon ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1978 by Patricia Beach

My Home

My Family moved to the house to the left of the school gates in 1957, before the school was built. I lived there until 1965 when I married and moved to the USA. My brother went to this school, and I used to cut across the field to catch ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Common in 1957 by Jill Trimble

Islip In The Early 60s

Greetings,  My name is Diane and I am an American who lived in the Grange on High Street in Islip in the early 60's.  My father was in the USAF stationed at Alconberry.   I have fond memories of Islip.  I remember going to the ...Read more

A memory of Islip in 1962 by Diane Olson

Margaret And Julie

Margaret Anderson and Edward Gill married 8th October 1949 last to be married by the 'blind' vicar (does anyone remember his name I think it was Pettit) while it was named St Luke's. The name of the church was changed from that ...Read more

A memory of Spratton in 1949 by Julie Gill Frisby

Bellis Cafe

The hot summer of 1976 - I was 16 and studying for my O levels in between minding the shop for my adopted parents Bert and Mary Belli. Our cafe was one of two Belli cafes in the town, but of course I always thought ours was superior and ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon in 1976 by Stephen Belli

The Old Wood Buildings That Were The Chip Shop And Butchers

Having grown up in Seaton Sluice I can remember the old wooden buildings that were the chip shop and the one next to it being the butchers. I can also remember them being pulled down and the present ones being built.

A memory of Seaton Sluice in 1983 by Lynn Cooper

Miniature Train Rides In The Park

Close to the Grand Union Canal which runs through Cassiobury Park is a splendid miniature railway. It loops through woodland, has level crossings over footpaths and criss-crosses several lines before returning to the ...Read more

A memory of Watford in 2002 by John Howard Norfolk

The Norfolk Family Move To Tiverton

Tiverton is an attractive market town in mid-Devon but I have to confess I had never heard of it until the first of the family moved here in 2005! Elizabeth and I were spending a weekend in Exeter with our son ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2005 by John Howard Norfolk

Home

Risca, was the town where I was born, under the shadow of Tymbarlm. I could see the fields leading to the mountain from my bedroom window, in Fernlea. The canal bank was where I would ride my pony Silver. All my memories of Risca are very happy ones, it was home and my childhood.

A memory of Risca by Judith Allen

Families Of St Blazey In The 40s/50s.

My father was one of the local butchers, Jack Grigg. He and my mother ran the shop opposite the church.  My grandfather was John Charles Grigg who lived at a house called Mount View at the bottom of Rose Hill. ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey by Melville Grigg

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