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Just outside Windsor is a place called St, Leonard's Hill where beyond there was a massive pig farm. Wall's Pork Sausages bought all the pigs. It was owned and run by a man called Lovejoy. I worked there when I was twenty years ...Read more

A memory of Old Windsor in 1969 by Roland Mitchell

Hi, I am researching my Family History in and around Howden le Wear/Witton le Wear/Crook/Weardale and I have had contact from a member of my Great Grandmother's Brother's family ...Read more

A memory of Witton Park in 1900 by Pauline Barker

Reading Gwynfor's memories, reminded me of my childhood in Esgairgeiliog . I lived in 'Awelon' or as commonly known 'Yr Efail'. The blacksmith's forge was our wash house and above was my father's workshop. A few years ...Read more

A memory of Esgairgeiliog by Colin Malcolm Jones

My mother was born in Eastleigh in the 1940's, my grandmother was born 1895 nearby and lived in the family home in Manor road. Great grandfather Cox built the house and was allowed to set his pigs free to roam in the ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1900 by David Brown

My father, Thomas Henry Williams, was born at 57 High Street, Troedrhiwfuwch in 1908. In his early 20's he left Troedy for Bristol, to look for work. It was in Bristol that he met and married my mother, ...Read more

A memory of Troedrhiwfuwch in 1947 by Roy Williams

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside. Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds. We can also ...Read more

A memory of Horley

This is a photo of Aelwyd Amanw, Brynaman. Brynaman was the first place in Wales to have its own building for running a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Although a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru had been established in the village since ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman by Sarah Hopkin

I stayed in The Kings Arms Hotel for a week when I came to Eccleshall in April 1975. I was there for a weeks training with my new employer F H Burgess Agricultural Engineers. They had one of around 130 branches in ...Read more

A memory of Eccleshall by Keith Wicks

My ancestral relatives are listed in the 1881 Census as the proprietors of "The High Street George Inn" in Henfield. Walter W Welling (aged 50) and his wife Sarah Ann Welling (nee Smoker and ...Read more

A memory of Henfield in 1880 by Rebecca Day

At the age of 14 my father began work as an apprentice pawnbroker for the firm W. Paines & Co. at their Strood branch on the corner of High Street, and Station Road. The firm had 3 branches. The apprenticeship lasted 5 years, followed by ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Ann Claydon