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Assisted and guided by my daughter, I have recently started researching my paternal ancestry and find Longforgan and Castle Huntly loom large in it. My great great grandfather, Robert Robertson (1775-1867) was ...Read more

A memory of Castle Huntly in 1860 by Thomas Robertson

I am interested in family history. Many of my relatives surnamed Hunter came from the Townhill Miners Village, the earliest being William Hunter, born 1750. I have been researching the area my ancestors were miners, ...Read more

A memory of Townhill in 1860 by Alan Hunter Roy

At the bottom of Willsbridge and Brockham hills, on a busy Bath to Bristol road, stands an unassuming little building called The Queen's Head public house. Unlike other pubs in the vicinity, The Queen's ...Read more

A memory of Willsbridge in 1860 by Paul Townsend

When a boy, my father, Donald William Stevens, used to show visitors through the Pixie caves for 1/2d per person, with the light from a candle for illumination. After WWII he followed in his father's (William ...Read more

A memory of Chudleigh by Richard Stevens

Started out as isolation hospital for scarlet fever(?) Used as nurses hostel for nurses from Cliveden, they were taken by coach, was at the back of site, backed onto Aspros( later Sara Lee?) factory, they built Westgate School on e ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by Dave Hill

Was born in Waterhouses 76 years ago at North Terrace, enjoyed the freedom of playing out in the street and fields . my father worked down the mine like all the other men and boys, my mother stayed home and cooked ...Read more

A memory of Waterhouses by donnagreaves5

I recall as a young boy the Saw Mill that existed neat Esh Winning Colliery. It was sited just prior to where the Railway siding crossed the road at the bottom of West Terrace. It used to cut pit props which were ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by James Wigmore

At the age of ten, my father moved me and the rest of the family from Low Fell to Esh Winning, without consulting any of us, including my mother. He had bought a tumble-down holiday cottage, situated between the pit-heap and the ...Read more

A memory of Esh Winning by David Woodhead

Trolley buses ran along Green Lanes from Finsbury Square; turning right for Enfield at Mason's Corner. The 244 route went from Collegiate School, Winchmore Hill to Muswell Hill. Chalkleys the bakers was on the corner of The Green ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill by Malcolm Geary

My mother was born in Blaenrhondda at the top of the Rhondda Fawr in 1914 and was one of four sisters but she was the only one to leave the Rhondda at the age of fourteen to go into service in England. During WW2 when my ...Read more

A memory of Treherbert by Viv Browne