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I was in Mobberly Boys school in 1977 it was a nasty place for a young kid and vey scary. The only thing I did was run away. There was good pionts though, as a young kid from Ordsall, Salford I got to see the countryside ...Read more

A memory of Mobberley in 1977 by Adrian Cavanagh

It's the 5th February 1953 in the front upstairs bedroom of 15 Elm Street, and Abercwmboi welcomes a new resident - me! The house belonged to my grandparents, William Joseph and Claudia Morris. I was to remain a resident there for ...Read more

A memory of Abercwmboi in 1953 by Martin Wale

Can anyone remember a riding school and livery in speldhurst/Langton called Cobblers Yard?It was owned by a lady called Mrs Saggers and the riding school and livery were run by a lady called Francis.So many happy memories from my time ...Read more

A memory of Speldhurst in 1982 by Christine Cavanagh

I was born and raised in Frome, West End and then we moved to Green Lane.  We emigrated to Canada, I did not want to leave Frome at all. I still miss home!. The pretty streets and the steep hills. I can remember swimming in the ...Read more

A memory of Frome in 1972 by h_mcfadden

I was fortunate enough to live at Trevone and then Padstow from 1951 - 1964, living at Craig-y-Mor which is the white house with the big balcony right down on the bay. I have very happy memories of my childhood ...Read more

A memory of Trevone in 1951

I lived in the old post office for approx. 18 years but my family lived there for about 10 years longer. When my parents bought the property they spent a lot of time and effort making it into a family ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1978 by Caroline Smith

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s my father, Patrick Scullion, known to many of his customers as Jock, was the family butcher at 8 Bishopric. I was his butcher's boy around 1960 delivering orders on the trade bike on Saturday ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1960 by Richard Scullion

The Boulevard used to be Station Road and was the local monkey run on Sat and Sunday nights, where young teenagers male and female used to walk up and down

A memory of Tunstall in 1950 by Gordon Stockton

I lived in a cottage in Long Lane, beyond Church End as a child during the war. I have vivid memories of my life here. The snowy winter of 1943 when the snow reached up to the cottage windows. We had no neighbours except Dick and ...Read more

A memory of Gamlingay in 1940 by Maureen Arrowsmith

I have happy memories of going down to the swing bridge in the school holidays when we visited our grandma in Huttons Ambo, long summer days going down to Leamans' shop for a block of ice cream and running back up the hill before it ...Read more

A memory of Huttons Ambo by Doreen Peel