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My mother went to St Polycarps school from 1913 to 1914. The address I was able to find from the schools archives where they lived was firstly at Beech Villas, Park Rd, Farnham and then Figgs Yard, Long Garden Walk. I ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1910 by Margaret Hughes

Bostons second cinema to open was the New Quay Picture-House was situated in the High Street, opposite Van Smirrens tower building which still stands today. The New Quay was opened on Thursday 29th January, ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1910 by Maurice Brader

When my Mother passed away in 1999 I had the unhappy task of clearing out her Warden Controlled little flat. Amongst her possessions I came across an old history project I had done at school in the 1970s for which I ...Read more

A memory of Handsworth in 1910

My grandparents lived at Stream Cottages and were there during the 1911 census. My dad was born there in 1917. I still remember visiting there as a child in the 1950s. There was a scullery and, in the dining room, a door that led to ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1910 by Pat Gannon Leary

Not really a memory, my great-grandparents were living at Gilberts Row on the 1911 census. I was hoping someone out there knew where it was. I have a photo of them outside the cottage. My great-grandfather was born in the village as were ...Read more

A memory of Caunton in 1910 by Karen Beckett

I am trying to find out more about The Folly in Radlett. My great grandfather, Charles Piper, lived there from 1902 - 1924 with his family, running a garden nursery. When he died in 1924, he is buried at the 'parish church, I am ...Read more

A memory of Radlett in 1910 by Sylvia Yates

My great-grandfather, Silvester Hale, ran the Inn from about 1880 until he died in 1911.  One of his sons, my great-uncle Reginald, was lost on the Titanic.  His body was recovered and I still have a shilling piece which was ...Read more

A memory of Rodney Stoke in 1910 by brownharepreservation

My grandmother and grandfather were married in Aberdare in 1912 and settled in Trecynon at 1, Cynonside, where my mother was born in 1917. She left to get married in St John's Church, Aberdare from Cynonside in 1935. My brother was ...Read more

A memory of Trecynon in 1910 by Alan Squire

Will I ever hear the wind sough in the trees as I lie in my trench in the night? Will I ever hear our Anna's laughing voice. or see my mother's kindly face? Here in the trenches of the Somme, lying in the mud, the everlasting ...Read more

A memory of Little Hucklow in 1910 by Elsie Hollis

My grandfather Edward Chase kept the Windmill Inn on Pitch hill and my father worked for him. My maternal grandfather John Allen kept the Bull Head in the village of Ewhurst and had two daughters, Mona and Lilian. My father ...Read more

A memory of Ewhurst in 1910 by Michael Chase