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My Grandparents lived in one of the cottages attached to what is now the White Bear Inn. They appear on the Census of 1921 Walter Knight & Florence Knight. My Mother Sylvia Knight who was 3 at the time of ...Read more

A memory of Chelsham by Derek Hay

I lived in South Wellfield just outside Whitley Bay in the years listed above. Despite being something of a mongrel in terms of heritage I always look upon the town and area as my true home. Although being probably conceived ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay by Neil Johnson

Does anyone remember a cafe / boarding house on the Esplanade, called Colman or Colman's? It was run by some relatives of mine and I am trying to trace the family tree; I do not know their ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay in 1930 by S Hill

Ah Whittlebury! Always knew that infamous dump would surface on the www sooner or later. A regime model for any totalitarian state, I still remember the oppression and dehumanisation that prevailed there, where the ...Read more

A memory of Whittlebury in 1960 by Simon Gwynn

This early motor wagonette was probably operated by J. Fred Francis from Colwyn Bay to Old Colwyn for a three-penny fare until the coming of the Trams in March 1915. It succeeded a two horse omnibus which ran between the two ...Read more

A memory of Old Colwyn in 1900 by John Owen

I last stayed at the Wide Sea Hotel in 1966. Margaret Eliott the owner was to marry my father, Hilton Devitte in 1967. I wondered if the hotel still existed today, and what had happened to Margaret Devitte nee Eliott. We ...Read more

A memory of Downderry in 1966 by Pat Underwood

SUDBURY 591/0/10020 GREAT WALDINGFIELD 21-NOV-05 HOLE FARM II House. Formerly a mid-C15 service building remodelled as a house in c.1600; later C17 extension to ...Read more

A memory of Sudbury in 1860 by Phyllis Willis

Me and my mates had so much freedom to "play out". We all lived around William Hopwood Street in them days. I'd just left Audley Secondary Modern School, to begin an apprenticeship at Foster Yates & Thom, (Dad & ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn in 1960 by Dennis Godfrey

I have read through all of the memories and no one has mentioned the dairy where for 6d you could buy a lovely ice-cream, not like the sickly ice-cream you buy today. The butchers shop was on the end then the grocers which ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Diana Corbyn

During the years 1960 to 1967, aged 4 thru 11, this was my playground, as well as the Devonshire Park behind to the left. My parents ran the Devonshire Park Hotel during this time in Compton Street, an old ...Read more

A memory of Eastbourne by Paul Biancheri