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I do not have a specific memory myself but I think my great-granny worked here. On the 1901 census she is listed as a kitchen domestic. At the time Lady Ashburton and her children Alexander and Lilian Baring and many other ...Read more

A memory of Buxted in 1900

My gran was born in the Ivorites 1897. Her parents ran it (Bill & Margaret Moore) & later her sister Margaret who married Henry James. Bill Moore was a bare knuckle fighter on the mountain ... illegal! There were 7 children of ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1880 by Rita Tait

My mother was from Newtown in Cardiff, near the docks. It was a community of very poor Irish immigrants. My great grandmother had a job cleaning the City Hall. She would walk through Cardiff in the early morning and do her ...Read more

A memory of Cardiff in 1910 by Marian Foot

I was born and grew up in Fowey 1930 - 1948. It was a small tight community in those days but often visited by "outsiders " who came on holiday. I went to Fowey Girls and Infants School first, and then having "passed the ...Read more

A memory of Fowey by Rosemary Freeman

I was born at 15 Currie Street in a modern prefab which had electric lights when most other houses still only had gas. We had an inside toilet and bathroom luxuries that others could only dream of then. At one end of Currie Street ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1957 by Michael Box

Lived at No7 Wolverhampton Road.. opposite Sammy Hall's butchers. Mum and Dad ran a shop out front and a car repair garage at the rear. No.1 was Coopers tailors... No.3 Baileys dry cleaners and No.5 I recall was owned by Mr & ...Read more

A memory of Heath Town by Graham Lester

there stood on frimley green road was a sweet shop. two lovely ladies used to serve behind counter.use to love going there after school . the shop however stood there for sometime above the shop the name just barely see The Mons ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by Janet Ingate

St. Andrews Church figured quite prominently in my early teens as it was my parish Church. Although not a religous person, I had to go the Church at least once a month as I belonged to 6th Uxbridge Scouts who were a Church Group, ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by Bill Crowther

Hi Readers ...My name is Vince . I was born in Greenway Lane in 1955 and spent my early years in the village . My father was a Child Okeford man and my Grandfather was in Gold Hill . Even today I have family ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford by vincreveleigh

The Greenway Tylers Green 1966-73 We spent the first night after getting married in our new house at 46 the Greenway, Tylers Green, but despite promises by the builders, there was no electricity ...Read more

A memory of Tylers Green by keith.poole