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I lived in Codsall Wood between 1944 and 1952. I attended Albrighton Infants School between 1950 and 1952, I still have my school cap, the only names I can remember was the dinner lady a Mrs Orange and 2 other pupils Darryl ...Read more

A memory of Albrighton in 1951 by Reg Wilkinson

Having been born and brought up in Buckhusrt Hill in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s and now living in Kent, it reminds me what a unique place it once was. My immediate memories are of Lords Bushes and living in Forest ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans

My memories of Greyabbey date back to 1940 just after the Blitz when Mum and her 3 sisters plus one sister-in-law with a bunch of kids relocated to Cardy, a small community appox. 3 miles from Greyabbey. I was 8 years of age at the ...Read more

A memory of Greyabbey in 1940 by Joe Murphy

Wonderful memories! It was awonderful place to have grown up. I learned to swim in the brook, aged about 11 years. I wonder who wrote the following which I was taught in school. Very appropriate! "Little stream flowing ...Read more

A memory of Gayton by Sylvia Pugh

My grandmother was Lydia Brooks, her father was Bernard Knowles Brook. She lived with my mum and me at Burton Agnes Hall gatehouse until her death in 1949. My mother was Eedna Brook Wilson, born in 1904. Lydia Brook married ...Read more

A memory of Keadby in 1900 by Edward Horsley

Born at Petersfield in 1940, my first home was Berry Cottage, down Sandy Lane, opposite Sibley's farm. Berry cottage had only 4 rooms (2 up and 2 down), no running water, only a well and later a tap down in the lane. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Rake Firs in 1940 by Monica Stewart

It is 56 years this week since my beloved husband, WALTER JOHNSTON was killed in an explosion at the ICI plant known as The Broom, at POWFOOT, Dumfriesshire.He was 26 years old, tall, handsome (Gregory ...Read more

A memory of Powfoot in 1954 by Janet Johnston

My great-great-grandfather worked as a gardener and groom at Scawby Hall in the 1800s. He was John Henson. His son, also John, worked there, and also his daughter, Maud Alice. She was a parlour maid but died aged 23 in 1883, ...Read more

A memory of Scawby in 1880 by Hazel Smith

As a young lad, I enjoyed many happy holidays at Brook Farm Caravan Site in Nansen Road, Holland-on Sea, where my parents owned a caravan.  This site was very quiet and superbly unspoilt with nothing but a small shop ...Read more

A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1965

There was a knock at the door, and there he was, this tall man wearing a bush hat who grabbed my mom, giving her a great big smacker of a kiss. Of course I wasn't having this strange man doing this to my mom, so I promptly got ...Read more

A memory of Smethwick in 1945 by Patricia Taylor