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Not so much a memory as a request! My great-grandfather William Saward was Station Master at Audley End for 38 years, between 1857 and 1895. He lived in the Station House, where my grandfather Bertram was born and became a ...Read more

A memory of Audley End by david_saward

We, the Brown Family from Wembley Middlesex spent two wonderful holidays with Mrs Robbins on the front at Instow. Mrs Robbins had been our neighbour at Lonsdale Avenue Wembley before returning to her native Devon ...Read more

A memory of Instow by Jennifer Keen Nee Brown

My happiest memories of childhood are the weeks spent with my aunt who lived in Weare Giffard. Coming from London I felt I had arrived in paradise. My aunt, lived in a bungalow called ...Read more

A memory of Weare Giffard in 1958

My father, Sydney Wood was born in Malborough in 1914. He moved away to get married in 1940 but always considered Malborough as home right up until his death in 1992. He always maintained that he was the young water carrier in this ...Read more

A memory of Malborough in 1920 by Tony Wood

My Grandmother ELLEN REAL was born in Axmouth 1875. Her grandmother was a Lace Maker and one of a few lace makers who contributed to making Queen Victoria's Wedding Veil.  My father (William Tom Sparkes) told me ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1947 by Kay Foulger

A weekend long folk festival in June attracted crowds of spectators to the street entertainments around Teignmouth and also to the concert performances in the Carlton Theatre. Many of the entertainers were morris ...Read more

A memory of Teignmouth in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I suppose one of the advantages of being "old" is having both the pensioner's free bus pass and the time to use it! So having retired to the middle of Devon with my wife Elizabeth in 2006 I ...Read more

A memory of Huntsham in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

We lived at number 20 from the early 50's to 1969 when we moved down to Devon. It was a lovely street to live in with the magnificent beeches all along. Nice neighbours- the Radfords at number 16 and the Huttons at 22. We had a ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton by babbagerichard

I have recently discovered that my Great Grandfather John Main originally from Devon (a shoe maker) and then in Brixton, London as a Dairy Manager owned the Bell Hotel in Hare Street around 1905. My ...Read more

A memory of Buntingford in 1900 by Judith Irwin

I was born in Otley hospital as were most from Guiseley and all around. In 1969 I was posted there as a police officer and stayed until 1974. My daughter was born there in 1972 and my dad died there on his 81st birthday. I know ...Read more

A memory of Otley in 1969 by Alan Hill