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In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

Does anyone know where this was in Andover? My grandparents lived there.

A memory of Andover

We were one of the early families to have a caravan at Bovi. This was what the campers called it back then. Caravans were positioned randomly before terraces were excavated in the field over the fence from the green above ...Read more

A memory of Bovisand Bay in 1949 by Jeffrey Smith

My maternal grandparents owned Daneswood, which you reached by taking the Mells road out of Great Elm, then turning left at a bungalow set right on the edge of the Mells river valley. After passing the bungalow, Daneswood was the first of ...Read more

A memory of Great Elm in 1959 by Richard Tomlinson

My parents opened Roselyon School, on the St Blazey road out of Par, in 1953, when I was nine years old, and ran it until they retired in 1970. Hence I knew Par pretty well both as young boy, teenager and young adult. Walking into Par from ...Read more

A memory of Par in 1959 by Richard Tomlinson

We moved into School Street when I was nine, along with my two sisters Norma and Iris and our parents Mary and Norman Cook. My father was a lead glazer at Reed Millicans on Team Valley. At the Derwentwater Road end of School ...Read more

A memory of Bensham in 1958 by Linda Boss

I well remember the name as I lived to the rear of the Albert Terrace, at number 11, and the Thistlewoods lived on the front on the Britannia Road. Elsie, Harry and Bob, I am sure those were the names. I ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1957 by Andrew Butler

About 1953 onwards. I wrote this out a while ago and somehow it got lost, I know Rob Blackburn read it as he left a comment, so I will try and recall as much again. In Millfield we only had a couple of house shops one was Meggie ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1957 by Jimmy Burrows

I always go to the beach and I did when I was little and I remember a type of building on the beach opposite from the beach terrace cafe. I always thought it was castle ruins, it was made of big stones and it looked like it had been ...Read more

A memory of Lytham St Anne's in 2005 by Eleanor Wood

My grandfather moved to Easington and worked at the pit for two spells. He married a girl from the village and they had 7 children. The family moved to the Midlands in the 1930s. One uncle returned after the war and ran ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Vivien Williamson