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I was a boarder there for about a year aged about nine or ten in about 1957. It was the unhappiest period of my life before or since. I don’t recall a moment of kindness, sympathy, or humanity from any of the nuns. As a ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1957

I have no connections with Bridport or the Visitation Convent but found the thread of messages detailing school life highly absorbing; I do know of another individual of note who may qualify as becoming "famous" (message posted ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1920

I was sent to the convent after my Father died in 1953. My Uncle had been educated there many years previously. I can confirm the recollections that have been put here of the vicious way in which some of the Nuns treated us. ...Read more

A memory of Bridport by Alan Yardley

i attended this dreadful school as a boarder when i had just turned 9. The headmistress was Miss McVicar, a remote and outwardly very Christian woman, though this never translated to ...Read more

A memory of Wickham by Mary Ann Godwin

I was born in June 1944. My mother started labour in Farmcombe Rd (the Sussex end of TW) but delivered in the Kent & Sussex (the Kent end of TW). The Kent Sussex border ran (does it still?) by the St Johns church, Pantiles. Does ...Read more

A memory of Tunbridge Wells

Anyone know Elizabeth bond ,Nicole 'de suza,Bernadette fromoe, Nancy black who s dad was a church minister

A memory of Uckfield by Heather Lyall

Hello all, just a note to say that I was born at Eaton Hall ijn May 1941. It is only a couple of years ago that I found it, now a school for what appears to be Asian boarders. Does anyone know anything about the history of the place? I have searched and can find nothing.

A memory of Eaton in 1940 by Cliff Hircock

I am researching my family history and found that my great-grandfather John Futtit was a pupil and boarder at the Besthorpe boys' school, the family had moved from Askern to Cottam in Nottinghamshire to ...Read more

A memory of Askern in 1870 by Ann Rees

I stayed with my Great Aunt Evelyn Cramer Roberts in one half the "Cottages" (16C left hand side of the road going towards the station) during parts of my childhood and growing years between 1934 and 1956. In my childhood ...Read more

A memory of Eridge Green in 1944 by Christine Winterbotham

My first recollection of Dersingham was as a seven year old boy in 1941. My mother, sister and I were evacuated from the East End of London during the blitz ...Read more

A memory of Dersingham by Karen Ebert