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My name is Bill Young not related to the girl with the same name above, and I too was at the Edith Brough home in Whaggs Lane Whickham. I went there with my brother Bobby in the late 1940's, probably about 1946/7/8 ...Read more

A memory of Whickham by bjyoung2009

I have a similar tale to as someone also brought here from Liverpool in 1948 when my dad started work for the ICI in Lostock. We lived in Keepers Lane with a view over the Weaver Valley. We spent lots of happy days in Owely ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham by franktompeate

Remember the Marine Parade so well I came to Lyme Regis in the early 1950 as a pre nursing student at the Local Cottage Hospital my name then was Muriel. Davis we always were called by our surnames I married in 1956 to ...Read more

A memory of Lyme Regis by mwiscombe

My parents came from Nottingham to open a shop in The Gounce mum hated the change to live in then the relatively quiet Cornwall .Next to us was Burrells Stork café owned by Sid Burrell. our rented flat is still there next to ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by shirleyhebb

Born in Oxford, I moved to Portsmouth in 1952. My Father was in the army department constabulary, now the MOD Police, and we lived at 9, then 8, then 13 York Terrace, Hilsea in married quarters, my Father was based ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Peter Whyatt

I used to get off the bus in Windsor Street down by the post office. When I was young there was an optician on the left hand side. I can remember staggering out of there, when I was about six years old. They had enlarged ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge

I was born in Norwood Green in the Frogmore Nursing Home which was next to the police station in 1936. My family lived at 14 Crosslands Avenue until WW11 when we moved to Oxfordshire for a short time ...Read more

A memory of Norwood Green

I had some brill holidays in sandown, morning coffee at the Rendevous restaurant, well café in the high st, made friends with the son paul who was training to be a navigator in the merchant navy, met a couple of girls who came ...Read more

A memory of Sandown by Ted Lay

as the oldest member of the garvie clan .I thought I would leave my memories of the family on the Internet so that our grandchildren could always look back and see where our past started. the family consisted of Mary ,Theresa,Charles ...Read more

A memory of Caldercruix by Matt Sloan

CAMBER SANDS When we first went to Camber Sands it was on my father’s motorbike and sidecar, it must have been in the middle fifties. It was a surprise for us as we had never been there before. When we arrived my ...Read more

A memory of Camber by Carole Baldwin