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My grandad came from Monk Sherbourne. He lived at the Rookery Farm. I used to go there as a child, the kitchen was huge, there were two doors, one went through to an apple store, the other must have been a well, the water ran ...Read more

A memory of Monk Sherborne in 1951 by Pamela Mather

We visited the Lizard during our summer holidays. It was the hottest year for years. We stayed in a caravan, on a caravan site near the Mousehole junction. There was my parents, my brother, sister and in the other caravan, next door was my two ...Read more

A memory of Lizard in 1978 by Jean Smith

I remember when I was little there was a shoe shop called Dimmocks, also near the church I remember a shop called The Dairy where I was allowed 3d worth of sweets if I'd been good, they came in a ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1961 by Fiona Scurlock

I loved Hinchingbrooke School growing up and the house just intrigued me. I remember my first year of sixth form in the house and my friends and I decided to look around the grounds where we came across the graves of Oliver Cromwell's ...Read more

A memory of Huntingdon in 2007

I was a patient at the RLCH Heswall in the 1940s . Although my family came from Liverpool I was sent to the hospital with what we knew as a diseaesed hip bone which I later heard referred to as Perthe's Disease. I guess my ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1940 by Fred Gott

My sisters Rita, Susan and me all attended Ightham Primary School, the headmaster was Mr Foster, he travelled every day from Maidstone by car, Mrs Kath Gordon, Miss Tomkins being the other teachers, Mrs Hussey replacing Miss Tomkins ...Read more

A memory of Ightham by Janet Le Saux

My grandfather G. A. Smith took the tenancy of Springs Farm on Edingley Moor in 1931, when I was six months old. A builder by trade, and a sergeant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry during the First World War, he ...Read more

A memory of Edingley in 1930 by John Watts

My family and I, the Oughtons, lived at 53, Wombwell Main Row, a community for miners and their families. My dad worked at Darfield Main pit all of his life up until early retirement in the early 1980s. I have kept in touch ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell in 1967 by Sallie Oughton /Taylor.

In about 1972 we as a family moved into West Challow, although with being at a young age I hated it, since moving from Wantage and my friends this it seemed was in the middle of nowhere. I used to cycle most days to Icknield, if ...Read more

A memory of West Challow by Mark Clarke

I was called up under the Bevin Scheme in April, 1944, and after a rather indifferent training at Annfield Plain Training Centre, was sent to the Hobson, as I was staying at the time in lodgings in Burnopfield with a Mrs. Crisp, ...Read more

A memory of Burnopfield in 1944 by George Rayner