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I have just came across a letter about my father (Matthew Fury) who was killed at St Columb during the Second World War, my father was with his regiment  219/46Light A.A Battery. R.A. The letter was sent to my grandmother in 1941 ...Read more

A memory of St Columb Major in 1941 by James Fury

I went to Sunday School here from 1949, and I sang in the church choir from 1950 until 1960 alongside my Nan.I was also allowed to learn to play the organ, the church has (had?) a wonderful organ, 2 keyboards and foot operated ...Read more

A memory of Stokenham in 1949 by Amanda Newson Webb

My father was inducted as the new vicar on 31st December 1949 at All Saints Church. I was just nine at the time but I retain some dim memories of a packed church! My dad stayed at Dovercourt until his retirement in 1976. I ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1949 by Martin Johnson

Hello, When I was a small girl I used to be taken to Monks Kirby by my grand parents, I think an ancester lived there way back in time. My grandmother always insisted that I kissed a tree, I think it was outside the Bell Inn ., was this ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby in 1946 by Ann Reece

Living far away from Bynea it was lovely and sad to see in this second photo of Bynea that the bus pictured is outside the house that I was born in in 1941. This house is approximately 110 years old and has always been in the Cooper ...Read more

A memory of Bynea in 1948 by Marilyn Jones

A demi paradise, Fluids Lane was at the far end of the village towards Glen Road, I think. It contained a stream, and woods. What wonderful memories I have of that place, nothing can compare, we played for hours damming the stream, climbing ...Read more

A memory of Oadby in 1948 by Christine Price

I started work at the laboratory in the Llandarcy Oil Refinery in 1942 for the great weekly wage of one pound, one shilling and ninepence, when I was 16. Mostly women worked in the lab but once the war was over the company only ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1942

On July 12th 1944, the day after my 8th birthday, my sister Maureen and I were evacuated from London to St Breward to live with Arthur and Ethel Hawken of Lower Lank. They were wonderful to us and cared for us with love and affection. We ...Read more

A memory of St Breward in 1944 by Kathleen F Shorey

As a child I lived in the estate office in the square, my father was estate bailiff for W J Brymer for all of the war years. I remember many of the troops were billeted with us in the house, at one time we ...Read more

A memory of Puddletown in 1940 by Richard Gaunt

My Grandma and Grandad lived in a tied cottage in Budby, and I spent many happy times there when I was a little girl. Grandad Dudley was a cabinet maker at Thoresby Hall, and I was given a lovely little music chair by Lord Manvers, but ...Read more

A memory of Budby in 1940 by Penny Bradford