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My memories of Nutbourne start when we moved to the Post Office in 1966-67, I was aged around 12 years old. I moved to Nutbourne with my father and step-mother, my younger brother boarded at little green school in ...Read more

A memory of Nutbourne in 1860 by Paul Vychodil

I lived in Turners Hill from 1941 on Tulleys Farm just down the road from the village. On a Sunday evening my family would first go to St Leonard's church then we all went and sat on the wall over looking the village green to ...Read more

A memory of Turners Hill in 1945 by Timothy Franks

It seems this is the first memory to be posted. My grandparents (Florence and Max Vetterlein) had the Wheatsheaf pub for about six years to 1957. They were tenants of the brewers Charringtons. There was ...Read more

A memory of Little Burstead in 1953 by Bruce Bagley

I was born in April 1938 at l Eardley Road off Mitcham Lane with the London to Brighton Railway running along the far end of our garden. Opposite was Aldrington Road which then housed St Albans Church which I attended every ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by Juliet Baxter

The 1860s saw the passing of my 3x great-grandparents Thomas and Sarah Waldron and the marriage of their grand-daughter Ellen to William Huxley, my great-grandparents. These Huxleys lived at Yew Tree Cottage and Bank Cottage before ...Read more

A memory of Clent in 1860 by Wendy Larmour

I was born in Kingston on Thames in 1943. In 1947 my family moved to Thames Ditton close to the old AC car factory and then in 1949 to Lovelace Gardens in Surbiton. At the very young age of 7 or 8 ...Read more

A memory of Hook by Peter Kenney

My friends, the 'Bartups', lived at No.1 Lycett Road. John, the father was an accountant who worked for ICI. His wife Isabella (Bella) was a Scots lady from Kirkcudbright, I believe. Two children John and Jean. John went to the ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1956 by Leslie James Payne

I am Reg Bright, born in Roman St, Seaforth. Moved to Thornton around 1951,courted Sheila King, Muspratt Rd, Seaforth 1953 ish, married her 1958. We now live in Bardsey near Wetherby - moved here in 1967 for the company Chadburns ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1953 by Sheila/Reg Bright

I turned eighteen in 1965. It was around this time that I had a tendency, upon coming home from the pub (in the summer), to have a black coffee, tie a rod onto the bike, and head off for Southwick via Brighton (about 35 miles from ...Read more

A memory of Southwick by Stephen Grieve

Me and my friend Marilyn, went to Primary school together in London. Her dad was the manager of our local swimming baths. I was devastated when he was offered promotion, it was at a pool in Wallasey, called Guinea Gap Baths. This ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1960 by Sue Meek