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I too was brought up in Rothley. I lived at 72, Woodgate. At the time it was the local telephone exchange, operated manually, my mother being the night operator. I remember George Hunt well, along with the Elkingtons, I used to get my ...Read more

A memory of Rothley in 1951 by Sue Marriott

My father moved to Cold Meece in 1960 to take up his job as a prison officer at the nearby Drake Hall open prison, and we stayed there for a couple of years before we moved to live at the prison itself. At the time I was between 9 ...Read more

A memory of Coldmeece in 1962 by John Grehan

My father was born in Kessingland in 1915 and as little children my sister, brother and me would go regularly to visit my grandparents there. They ran a grocery shop in Chapel/Church Road, the first house from ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1953 by Sue Robertson Danells

At the back of this photograph is Calne Free Church and just in front is "Wiltshires" the grocery shop.  My father William John Cook worked there for many years.  I can see him now neatly wrapping parcels in brown paper and tying them up with ...Read more

A memory of Calne by Judy Cook

I was born at Willey Gate House 1960, my parents Joe and Margery Pratt lived there since the early 1950s, my father was the gate man and opened the gates to let steam trains though, it was on the Rugby to Leicester line, ...Read more

A memory of Willey in 1961 by Mary Johnson

I lived in 106 Whytecliffe Road from 1968. We bought the house for £5200. I went to work at VW Motors at Purley Way just up the road. Use to have Chinese at the restaurant downstairs. I worked in the typing pool as Deputy ...Read more

A memory of Purley by Carole Parker

The second modern day Whittlebury School reunion has been arranged for Saturday 5th October 2013 at 12:00 hrs for 13:00 hrs at “The Atrium” which is part of the Whittlebury Park golf club (the same place as ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1963 by Tony Wood

I was born at 42 Stanley Avenue Portslade, on 21st July 1944. We moved to Shoreham after the war and Dad ran a small transport cafe, which, last time I visited it was a bookmakers called ...Read more

A memory of Shoreham-By-Sea by chrissy-harris

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

I left Rainsford School in summer 1959 and worked for 6 month on Hoffman's assembly line. I then joined the Chelmsford Co-op Grocery, starting on the provisions counter, in Wells Street where I trained under Arthur Halliday (he ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1960 by Brian Hanchett