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We were the Clarks who lived at 'Cotswold' Nine Mile Ride, out of Wokingham. I would sit on our front gate with pencil and paper taking number plates of cars going past to California. My mother rode her bicycle to work in Wokingham, ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1950 by Judy Macdonald

It may seem strange for a male to offer these memories but boys were accepted in junior forms and I was at Shute School from the summer of 1939 until the Easter term 1941. I and my sister, known as Ba Gauld, joined after ...Read more

A memory of Shute in 1940 by John Gauld

My dad was born in the house shown in the photograph; along with ten other brothers and sisters. My grandfather was the bailiff on the river, it has not changed one bit .

A memory of Avoncliff in 1920 by Michael Moore

This road was one which was mainly used to pass through Eastry. We used to take the 87 to Dover or Ramsgate/Margate, or the 13a bus to Deal or Canterbury. The 76 to Deal and Staple. To the right was the big-time first ever supermarket! Of ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1962 by Michael Mitchell

To Norma Singleton. There is a terrace of houses between Llanddulas & Llysfaen (2 miles from Colwyn Bay) with a terrace called Tyn y Maes. My Nain & Taid lived there before moving to Llysfaen village. I live in Llysfaen ...Read more

A memory of Colwyn Bay

I was at Tenterfield from December 1951 until April 1952. I remember the Irvine family, particularly Winston and James. I also attended Lasswade School later as I think Winston did too. Most of the nurses at Tenterfield were ...Read more

A memory of Haddington by Jim Wyllie

I was born in 1954 at Craggsfarm which is no longer there. The house had no electric or mains water. My dad worked up the road at Robinson's Farm. My brother was older than me and had polio in one leg. He past the 11 plus and I then had ...Read more

A memory of Salmonby in 1954 by David Brown

My grandmother, Kate Elizabeth Wicks, was born in Hythe on 16 June 1887. She was a Roman Catholic and attended the school run by The Austin Friars Church, in Hythe. They lived in Eltham. She married my ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1880 by Christine Wise

My brother and I were evacuated to Wiltshire during the middle of WW2 - he staying with two very dear old ladies, and me with my aunt and her two children whilst her husband was away in the Air Force. They were from Harrow and we ...Read more

A memory of Oare in 1940 by Audrey Pollard

I lived in Horton from the age of two when we moved from Chard. We lived in a cottage just below the village hall opposite the Police house. My dad was Joe Sparks, and my mum was Joyce, I had an elder sister ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1955 by Pat Sparks