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This is Alan Edgar Fullwood's memory and the reference to Slinfold is right at the bottom of this narration: Edgar Fullwood was my father.  He was born in Birmingham England in what is to me the beginning of our history in 1875 on October ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1870 by Anne Robertson

I bought my favourite car in Hatch End from the Cornwall Garage in 1970. It is on the right of this view beyond the row of shops and the crossroads of Uxbridge Road and Cornwall Road. ...Read more

A memory of Hatch End in 1970 by John Howard Norfolk

On The High Street, Neston as you look towards Liverpool Road with The Cross just behind you you may still be able to see two alleyways. One used to end in a shed ...Read more

A memory of Neston in 1975 by C Evans

Year 1955 because it's central to the time we lived just a few doors down in a new bungalow (Khandala), from the Thorpe's café (it was west towards the roundabout, north side of the road) and one of my cherished ...Read more

A memory of Southbourne in 1955 by Liz Forrest O Driscoll

John Hayward (1813) came from Loders in Dorset and settled in this area  of Wallingford, of Benson, Bradfield, Englefield and married local girl Mary Anne Kitchen.  His son Robert James eventually farmed Uxmore Farm at ...Read more

A memory of Wallingford in 1860 by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

Lived on Bata Estate 1954-1964, near railway crossing. Through crossing on left was sad row of shops, we knew as Mucking. Turning right down farm track (forbidden!) I could creep through undergrowth to an almost deserted settlement, very ...Read more

A memory of Mucking in 1960 by Stephen Warrington

LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS I have written about Cannich and living in Fasnakyle under the Heading of "Glen Affric". However there is so much to write about my two years living there. It's part of this earth that is for ...Read more

A memory of Cannich in 1948 by Denman Lalonde

I wonder how many people remember the Jerry planes that came over Portslade on their way to Croydon & London. I was out with my brothers  taking a lame dog home to its owner in Foredown Drive when a large German  plane flew ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1944 by Marion Parker

My wife and I moved to Powick in the 1980s. Dating back to the late 1500s the whole row of (now four) houses were used by Cromwell as a hospital during the Civil war. It had no central heating and during our stay there we added that, ...Read more

A memory of Powick in 1991 by Fred Dager Brown

I was sorry to leave the village, some of my best memories of my childhood relate to Gainford and its residents. I lived in what was known locally as 'knobs row' or High Row, no.13. One of my best friends was a boy whose ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1969 by Penny Airlie