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My father was a military policeman and we lived at no 17 MSQ (just around the corner from these houses and now known as Wellington Terrace.) At the front of our house there were woods across the road and a small ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1949 by Sandra Evans

I think you need to get a bit further back in history to find anything about the Old Reading Room which you describe as "High Trees", Long Lane.  In the thirties my parents rented Ploverfield Lodge Cottage which stood ...Read more

A memory of Old Milton in 1930 by Belinda Heathcote

My paternal line goes back to (definitely) Joseph Wood b. 1751 at Cowick near Snaith but there have been Wood's in Cowick back to the 16th century. Joseph married Hannah Mapplebeck of Heck at Snaith in 1782.

A memory of Snaith in 1860 by Olga Lockley

To the right of the Jaguar car was a farm yard set behind a large brown wooden gate. As a child I recall seeing an old man dressed in black coat and hat riding very slowly on a black bike driving his black cattle through the ...Read more

A memory of Beaumaris in 1955 by David Mills

I lived in Trallong at this time. I was 7 years old. I lived in a cottage next to the school and the church on top of the steep curving hill which led down to the vicarage. The vicar was Mr Lewis and his daughter Carol and I were ...Read more

A memory of Trallong in 1947 by Bernard Morris

In 1979 my then boyfriend and I viewed Brightwells Cottage in The Square at Sutton Scotney. It was, to put it bluntly, a hovel ... mud floors, lead covered wiring, an Elsan Toilet and holes in the thatch, but we loved it. ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Scotney by Kim Burnett

Anyone living in Earith before 1970 will know my name, not because of me, but through my father, Don Guymer, and my mother Beryl.  Dad was known because of the haulage firm he used to run out of the house in the High ...Read more

A memory of Earith by Russ Guymer

I'd have to work out the date, but around there. I moved to Newent from Wales and used to live in a nice little house just down from the Black Dog on the corner of Church Street, if anyone has photos before it was knocked ...Read more

A memory of Newent in 1963 by Stephen Dunn

I remember going to the Savoy Cinema that you can see on the corner of the High Street and Vine Street. This was about 1953, I was seven and went with my brother who was twelve. I had never been to the pictures without an adult ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1953 by Barry Hawgood

I believe the Watney’s pub on the left of the picture was The Red Lion. In 1962 I was a lad of sixteen and worked at Blundells Shoe Shop. From the photograph this would have been behind the cameraman. I live in America now and ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1962 by Barry Hawgood