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It may seem strange for a male to offer these memories but boys were accepted in junior forms and I was at Shute School from the summer of 1939 until the Easter term 1941. I and my sister, known as Ba Gauld, joined after ...Read more

A memory of Shute in 1940 by John Gauld

I was a boarder at WGS from 1957 to 1964 and it doesn't live in my mind as the happiest place in the world - but there were plenty of girls who did love it, I remember. I was only thinking of it yesterday, ...Read more

A memory of Ashford in 1962 by Annie Marks

I lived in Sandy between about 1963 and 1979 and have seen changes even in that short time. It was a fairly quiet village when we first came in spite of the adjacent A1. I went to St Swithuns school in St Neots Road, then Sandy ...Read more

A memory of Sandy by Sue Horne

Aged 7, with my parents, we moved from Hadrian Avenue, Chester le Street to 'Woodside', Picktree Village in 1951, where we kept hens and three pigs. Fred Scott had the nearby farm and delivered the milk each morning. ...Read more

A memory of Picktree in 1950 by John Crawford

Have just come back from a visit to Gilfach Goch, it looks so different now. I wonder if anyone out there remembers my late husband and I living in an old caravan at the top of Holly Street? We held some meetings for ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1957 by Meta Price

from Jeff Hubble Born in Church Path no 8 St Johns Place 1943 went to Star school thence Western Road Secondary till 1959 Remember Leo`s at the Cricket Green, the Fair at Three Kings, Saturday morning Pics cost either ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jeff Hubble

This once sleepy hamlet was first home to me, a better place for childhood there could not be. Little Drayton church and it`s `olde` Sunday school. fishing excursions with Uncle to Buntingsdale pool, Dalelands ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

I was born at Low Westwood, a small mining village in the North East of England in 1955 – well, when I say I was born there, that’s not entirely true. Unlike today, children were born at ...Read more

A memory of Hamsterley in 1960 by Kathy Aveyard

My parents bought the then new property of 14 little Bookham street sometime in the mid 1950's when I was a very young child. I went to school in East Horsley and one of my ...Read more

A memory of Little Bookham by lea.christopher

I have just stumbled upon this site and have spent a few happy hours reading memories of Little Sutton, here are a few of my own. My brother, Edward (known then as Teddy) Johnson, and myself, Sharon, lived in Hawthorn ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by sharon.smith51