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Last year, as part of a two month trip from New Zealand, in mid September, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to Walkern, the place of my paternal ancestors. During the war I was taken by my mother and grandfather to Clay End, near ...Read more

A memory of Walkern in 1943 by Michael Bennett

I grew up in Warwick in the 1960s. These are some of the shops I remember from my childhood, nearly all of which are gone now unfortunately. The Saltisford and North Rock. Summers the  butchers, Maydays the bakers, Hobdays the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick

I remember going to Maidstone Zoo, I believe it's location was Detling Hill, the old road going downhill from what is now the Kent showground. If I remember rightly there was a lift system in which was pulled up and down by elephants, ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone in 1957 by Graham Pudney

I was first on Nash page, now first on Whaddon page, and I'm from Bletchley!  Well, I moved to Whaddon in Feb 1974 with David Hogg (originally from Nash)and we lived in Stock Lane, a tied cottage, and Dave worked for Mr ...Read more

A memory of Whaddon in 1974 by Margaret Hogg

My dad was born Headcorn in 1891, grew up in the village. He served in the First World War and, later, moved to other areas in the south. He ceased travelling after arriving in Bedfordshire with my ...Read more

A memory of Headcorn by pashburner

I was a partially deaf pupil at Ovingdean during the 1970s and as my home was a long way from there, I was one of the very few pupils that resided at the school during the weekends. I do remember two very profound memories ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven in 1974

I spent a lovely sunny July evening with my morris dancing friends at Babbacombe providing a musical and dancing entertainment for the holidaymakers on the Downs. The entertainers were the ...Read more

A memory of Babbacombe in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

Hi, I am trying to get in contact with someone called Belinda Armson who lived at Little Cote on the common at East Runton. I used to vist East Runton on all my summer school holidays and I would love to find her. She had a brother ...Read more

A memory of East Runton in 1960 by Mary Martin

My mother Mary Dart was brought up in Kingswear, where she lived with her mum, dad, and brother Edward until she married my dad Les Witty who was in the Army at the time. She had to move away as Dad was posted to Germany in 1953. ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear in 1968

I remember Aberdare Park. When our daughter was a baby my husband Ian and I use to walk round the park pushing the pram on a Sunday afternoon. In the 1950s that was the venue for walks with my parents, also on a Sunday ...Read more

A memory of Aberdare in 1965 by beryl.allinson9