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I hope someone can help, my family lived in Snodland during the 60's and 70's. My father attended Holmesdale. He wrote a poem about Kent and mentions a place called gamekeepers hill, which we think was in or around Snodland as it ...Read more

A memory of Snodland by Paul Billanie

I lived in Bredbury from 1958 to 1979 and went to Barrack hill school. then went on to High field we used walk pass the slater house on bents lane. Mum and dad always went in to the club next door as my dad was one of the singers there.

A memory of Bredbury in 1969 by Karen Whittaker

The building with the turret is Acton Lodge where my grandparents Drs John and Mary Leedham-Green lived from 1946 until the late 1980s. The two cottages to the right had been demolished when my mother first visited (in the 1960s - ...Read more

A memory of Southwold in 1946 by Kay Leedham Green

I was born in Pluckley in1954. My family have lived there for four generations. My great Grandmother Bessie Masters came there from Northiam and her daughter Abbigale Annie Manser (her mum married twice) married my ...Read more

A memory of Pluckley in 1954 by Gillian Barnes

Hi, can anyone help? My mum was born at 1 Crystalate Cottages, Golden Green, Hadlow, Kent. Do they still exist or were they knocked down?

A memory of Tonbridge by Heather Marchant

My sister and I lived at Gardeners Cottage, Mappleton between 1950 and 1954. Dad (Tom Fairbanks) worked at Hinchley Wood as a gardener for Hugh Molson an MP. We went to school in Ashbourne, and played with John Peach ...Read more

A memory of Mappleton in 1951 by Sheila Glazebrook

My name is Jan and I was born in Cronin Road in 1952. My Great granny Payne had a shop there, a drapers I think, although she died before I was born. We moved to Camberwell and then to Gloucester Grove when I was three and lived ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by jan.amos151

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

Hi, I lived in Hextable from about the age of 9 until I was 17, when I joined the WRAF. We lived in New Road and there was a nursery opposite where we lived and the road was UN made. There was also an agricultural college in College ...Read more

A memory of Hextable by benchar54

my time at this school was good.I arrived from Scotland in march 1957 ,I went to Mr Dunn's class.I met Shirley Kent and we got on great .I think it was my Scottish accent that did it.there was a lad called ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough by alexdjohnston