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I lived with my grandparents in the late 1940s at 201 Carlisle road Ferniegair, known as the huts which was opposite the gatehouse to the duke of Hamilton estate.My ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair by eddieallsopp

The old arch extends the boundary wall of the Baptist graveyard and juts into Abbey Road. The Primary School is further along the road. On my first day at the school, in 1942, the new infants were enrolled for the ...Read more

A memory of Bovey Tracey in 1942 by Michael Steer

Hello, I used to go to this cinema on Saturdays, to the shop next door for my sweets with my friends, 'hay ho' good old days. Across the road there was a ladies clothes shop, this is the shop where I got my first job after leaving ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1963 by Alma Durrant

My grandmother had to work in the flaxworks during the First World War and caught her arm in a machine and severed it!  I was told she was taken to Yeovil and spent many weeks in this hospital.  In 1964 I spent two weeks in here but for a much nicer reason, my first son was born.

A memory of Yeovil in 1910 by Wendy Conway

My mum & dad used to take me and my sister to Margate (Cliftonville) for 2 whole weeks back in the late 50s/early60s. I shall look up some old photos when I have a chance. Although we didn't have much money then, we took a ...Read more

A memory of Margate by Wendy King

I was born here in Newton Green and lived in the house just visible on the left - the last one. It was called Cotswold. The village shop was run by Mark Wilson and that could be him in the photograph, tinkering with ...Read more

A memory of Newton in 1957 by Pete Rowland

This is Southcombe Terrace, Axmouth. 6-13 Southcombe Terrace was designed by the architect Frederick Kett and built by Bert Warren around 1937/8 for the Stedcombe Estate. My parents, Rock and Olive Real, then in their mid ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1955 by Pauline Morgan

I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Derek Jones

It was amazing to look back at some of these photos..remembering them well. We as a family lived at 35 stratford road which was then a council house owned by the fire brigade, father worked in the fire ...Read more

A memory of Stroud by william007roberts

Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, and this country's involvement in the Second World War began. German air-raids and gas attacks were expected imminently, and many ...Read more

A memory of Princes Risborough in 1940 by Julia Skinner