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My great-grandmother Margaret Adams, according to the Census of 1891, lived with the Davis family as a servant. The address was Bird Cottage, Main Road. I just wondered if anyone had any information? The Davis family ...Read more

A memory of Llanvihangel Gobion in 1890 by Joy W

It was only recently that my eldest daughter (17) asked where I was born, I told her of this place, she asked if the place still stands to which I told her no. She asked about the Cambridge Military Hospital and I ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1971 by Steve Oliver Pulford

Loughton was the village I grew up in. A loveley village surrounded by countryside and farm land. I grew up in Railway Cottages, somtimes known as Fog Cottages. Me and my friend Marlene used to sit on the fence train ...Read more

A memory of Loughton in 1955 by Jose Mabbutt

At the side of the Post Office is a single track lane that leads to the cliffs, half a mile along the lane past the farm was a large thatched cottage named "Rixlade". In 1957 our father Major William (Bill) ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsham in 1957 by Raymond Hay

What an amazing place! The old post office in Budlake has been preserved by the National Trust and it is absolutely fascinating getting close up to the village shop goods and the post office stamps and stationery from the ...Read more

A memory of Budlake in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

I am trying to find out more information about Wiseton Road in Tooting. My family William and Ann Raven lived there in Blackmore Cottage, next door was Raven Cottage. I know that the family surnames are Raven and Blakemore. Are these ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1870 by Alison Brimicombe

Anyone remember the Avenue Club and Cafe run by Wally and Grace? I was their daughter-in-law and I lived at 95 Old Road in a yard above a private garage that looked like a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1962 by Patricia Cohen

My Nana and Grandad Evelyn and Tom Gordon Walton, my dad's parents, retired to Alder Cottage, Crook Bank, Theddlethorpe. As a child I lived in a cottage in the grounds until moving away. But my brothers ...Read more

A memory of Theddlethorpe St Helen in 1950 by Myra Turner

From 1946 until 1949 I was a boarder at Court Hall. At the time I was there Lady Poultimor lived in a cottage in the grounds and kept parrots. There were stables at the rear of the house and a full pack of hounds was kept ...Read more

A memory of North Molton in 1946 by Brenda Mitchell

When - andwhy - was the green in front of Plough Cottages at China Lane sold off?

A memory of Bulphan by Kenneth Moring