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I well remember the open air swimming pool where we used to go for swimming lessons from Norman Gate primary school as well as the open air pool at the Grammar School featured in one of your photos. However my first experience ...Read more

A memory of Andover by Chris Dance

My Mum, Evelyn (Bess) Hoare was born in Tir-y-Berth in 1918. The Hoare family were not natives of the town but my grandfather, a tunnel excavator, obviously found work in the area and the family were there for a ...Read more

A memory of Tir-y-berth by powelljimpat

I spent three holidays from 1954 to 1956 on houseboats rented from the Giddins family who owned the boathouse The only access to the boats was by punt which was always paddled not poled The main pastime was fishing with nice ...Read more

A memory of Hemingford Grey by Peter Marler

I was born at 171 Church Street, where the East Marsh flats now stand. My father worked on the docks at New Holland, so when I was a few weeks old my mother took me there to join him in Manchester Square. In 1953 my father - ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by leslie

I was evacuated from Fulham south London in September 1939 along with my brother and sister. my first school was Lincoln Court School in Green Lane Addlestone. We all thought Addlestone a beautiful place which it was after living in ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge by donald.ramsey34

Around 1922 at the age of 17 my Dad , Bill Walker had his first motorbike and every evening after work he would ride from his Fathers garage in Acocks Green to Yarningale Common to meet up with his pal Val Reynolds who lived down the ...Read more

A memory of Yarningale Common by kevbrittain