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My memory of living in Brongest, I lived on farm called Blaenarthen, my most memory living there was hot summers we used to have, and hay making, when everyone would help with getting the hay in. I also had grandparents ...Read more

A memory of Brongest by Enid Diane Davies

Spent some time here down on the Dee, walking out to the middle at low tide, playing in the old gun garrison overlooking the Dee, until someone yelled "GHOST" and we ran like startled hares. My mother once said something ...Read more

A memory of Thurstaston in 1963 by Alan Sharp

We lived half way up the hill, you can just see my dad's motorbike and sidecar parked on our front garden. The council told him he couldn't park on there because he wasn't allowed to remove the privit hedge, so he dug them ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1965

I was born (53) in one of the pre fabs in Hornbeam Road that backed onto the fields & the Roding river where many a worm was lost when we tried to catch stickle backs & sliding down the dump on a piece of tin. ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Rosemary Collisson

We lived on the old East Hill Estate-Falmouth House, things I remember are my mother shopping on East Hill, there was a greengrocer there which I can't remember the name of, there was Whelans the butchers, the Junction was not ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth in 1970 by Eugene Garvey

Is there a photo of the original pub.? We lived a few yards away on Kingston Road. The old building had two bays with the door in the middle. It opened on to the road and the bus stop was right outside the front ...Read more

A memory of Ewell in 1900 by Chris Bragg

Along with my mother Ruby, I was evacuated to Alconbury on my birthday, 23 September 1940. Unknown to me, my paternal grandparents had already moved there and were in residence in Chapel Street. My Mum and ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1940 by Barry W J Chandler

Down Beggers Hill and round the bend, just a short distance from the Jolly Wagoners and next to the Eight Bells, there was a blacksmiths who used a furnace to shape the iron shoes that were used to shoe horses. The horses ...Read more

A memory of Ewell by Patricia Dickson

When I left my first school I arrived at Horsell school, a very pretty full of charecter building. I was about 6. A lot of the pupils were from my neighborhood, Hammond Road, Horsell. I remember the pretty church on the opposite ...Read more

A memory of Woking in 1860 by Shirley Hamilton

My parents bought the little cottage, 1 Harbour View (end of Boringdon Rd) in Coronation year. The area at that time was, quite frankly, a slum and many of the surrounding houses were being condemned and pulled down. Our cottage ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel in 1953 by Delphine Plaskett