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I was born at home at 2 Church Lake and had 2 older sisters, Jo and Barabara. Even as a baby they would take me off on long walks across the church yard and over to Bucky's Meadow towards Venn. Crossing the stream in flood, ...Read more

A memory of Landkey by Nick Crocker

My husband and I had many a happy day fishing in Merry Lane. Well, he fished and I read a book! We stayed in a caravan in the field at the last farm down the end of Merry Lane. One holiday we arrived early and parked our caravan ...Read more

A memory of Bason Bridge in 1963 by Sue Bowles

South-end villas, that was my world in them days as a child, it was like the whole world revolved around it. I was  born and brought up there, if I had to write a story about the things we had to do as kids,or should I say found to ...Read more

A memory of Crook in 1960 by Jeff Cass

I remember staying in the Black Bull, run by my grandad, grandad Lack. In the back garden was a huge willow tree and in one of the outhouses all the metal tops from the beer bottles were discarded. I used to sit in ...Read more

A memory of Willingham in 1949 by Anna Stearn

My mum's family (Beer) owned the village shop in Fore Street, consequently my family spent many holidays in the village. I remember playing with cousins in the orchard in Yon Street where my Great Aunt Anne and Great Uncle Harry ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1972 by Hilary Wakely

This building was known to us as Hammett's Farm, properly West Orchard Farm, in the Higher End area of St Athan. Arthur Hammett and his wife ran the farm and I occasionally helped to deliver milk from the farm around the village from a ...Read more

A memory of St Athan

After living in Richmond I bought and renovated Pear Tree House (on the right of this 1913 picture) in 1972.  The previous occupants had died and when I found the house it was covered in ivy and I understand at one time Funeral ...Read more

A memory of Skeeby in 1972 by Terry King

My grandmother, Lillian Kemp, lived at 9 Howard Close. We visited regularly and had the best days running all over the village. Fishing sticklebacks out of the pond, looking for rats at the rubbish dump (!), trying to ...Read more

A memory of Walton on the Hill in 1965 by Sue Hibberd

I was a resident at the cottage homes from about 1960 for a few years, and again in the later 1960s and early 1970s. The building on the right is where the swimming pool was. We used to collect the key from the lodge at the front ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1960 by Lorraine Pritchard

My paternal grandparents came from Evesham, they moved to Birmingham in the 1930s I think, but we still had relatives still living in Evesham. On a Sunday we would go and see my grand auntie Lott and my second cousin Patricia and her husband ...Read more

A memory of Evesham by Elizabeth Ballard