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My parents used to camp there before the Second World War, they used to go most weekends. My first memories of Newhaven were of camping after the war I was five. We used go most weekends. My father built his first ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven by Joyce Aedy

I was born in East Dean but my grandparents lived in West Dean along with my aunts, uncles and cousins. I still have cousins in West Dean. My father was a Clifford and worked for East Brothers. I remember as a child playing ...Read more

A memory of West Dean in 1940 by Valerie Bailey

I have so many memories of growing up in Ferndown during the Second World War, when it was just a village. Collecting pigswill and old papers to aid the war effort. Scouting adventures with scoutmaster Doug Gabe. Playing games on ...Read more

A memory of Ferndown in 1940 by Brian Davis

In l984 my sister, Christine Ramsey/Taylor wrote to me at my home in Texas asking if I would like to share a holiday cottage with her and her three children. She had booked in at Cromer and had rented an old fisherman's cottage, called ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1984 by Janet Ramsey

I was also born at the Semon Convalescent Home in 1943, my mother was booked into St Lukes for my birth but was sent here instead, I often wondered what the home was like. I have visited Ilkley many times and never did find the home, now I know why.

A memory of Ilkley in 1943 by Jeanne Platt,Nee Wilson

I was brought up in Nailsea. My parents owned a toy and gift shop on Station Road rented from Bob Vance, later we moved to Noah's Ark Cottage. Built in 1666, it had all the original features intact, the stone ...Read more

A memory of Nailsea in 1960 by Martin Smith

I moved to Walton in the 1960s after my dad died. We lived in a caravan at a park up the Naze as we were homeless. I went to school in Stanley Road when I was 14 and went for a month or so and never went ...Read more

A memory of Walton-On-The-Naze by Tony Nicholl

My great-aunts, Selena (who died when I was very young) and Daisy Young (nee Francis, and died 1962?), lived in Lower Moors Road. I forget the name of the house, but my brother and I used to play in the ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common

I lived in No 2 Shabden Cottages with my mother and grandfather. Our name then was Wood. I was 6 years old in 1952 and this is my memory. The shops on the left of the road were: the newsagent/sweet shop run by Mr & Mrs Butcher. ...Read more

A memory of Chipstead in 1952 by Robin Whiting

Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig by Catherine Delahay