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Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

Until we emigrated to the U.S. in 1948, my family spent our summer holidays in Coldingham with Cha Crowe & family, also, Johnny Walker, known as Walker the Butcher whose son Ian still has his butcher shop in Eyemouth. ...Read more

A memory of Coldingham in 1940 by Derek Gilchrist

Just after the war my father (Harry 'Ginger' Scott) and a friend (Ralph Phillips married to Maggie Mullins, Eastleigh's scrap merchant) built a small caravan which they towed with our old Ford 8 to the caravan park at ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1940 by John Scott

Memories are the garnish of our later years... During my extreme youth, the closest we ever got to a summer holiday was a week spent with our maternal grandparents. My father would trundle us through to their ...Read more

A memory of Felixstowe in 1957 by Mo Haarhoff

I was a bakery student at Wrexham Tech. in the early 1960s and worked two holiday jobs in Rhyl. The first was at a bakery run by a Polish baker and he had a real Vienna oven, baked lovely crispy bread! The second was at Harry Brereton's ...Read more

A memory of Rhyl in 1962 by Ian Mabbitt

While exploring my British Roots in 2003 with my then 80+years-old mother we were blessed with the opportunity offered by the owner of the Woolstapler House, pictured in the lower right foreground of this ...Read more

A memory of Cirencester in 2003

As a 16 year old, I was a boarder from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia at Saint Joseph's Convent, 122 Ladbroke Road. With me there were around 25 girls ranging from the ages of 4 to 17 years old and at least from 10 different ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1966 by Maria Victoria Garcia Azuero

Growing up I had a good friend and neighbour, who I knew as 'Miss Porter'. She inherited her house from her Uncle who (according to her comments to a young boy) used to be a footman to Queen Victoria and was the first owner ...Read more

A memory of Guffogland by Ewan Sinclair

It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, our friends in Grimspound Border Morris were in a party mood. Our own group of ...Read more

A memory of Haytor Vale in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born in 1939 at 28 St.Anthonys Avenue, off St.Barnabus Road. I remembered the Anderson shelter in our back garden only vaguely as I was evacuated to North Wales with Janet Jenkins, and Brenda Hart. After the war, I ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green by sissontessa