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My dad always ensured that we had a "fortnight's"  family holiday each year. A fortnight was 2 weeks - ie fourteen nights. These holidays started in 1949, when I was seven  and continued to up to 1958 when I was 16. In 1949 and ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1949 by Roy Beiley

I am a 67 year old British citizen and have lived for over 40 years as a rock musician in Germany. I went to Ryde School in the 60s. After I left I was lonely living in London and used come back to the island ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Simon Hornsby

In 1962 my parents and I (12 years old) moved from Bristol to open Victoria Wine (later to become the Wine Market before reverting back to Victoria Wine). There were still several empty units awaiting occupation. I can recall ...Read more

A memory of Plymstock in 1962 by cpden

Situated at the top of our road, as young children Hilly Fields was something quite magical. During winter time we would trek our home made sledges over to toboggan hill and hurtle down to the brook at the bottom of the hill at breakneck ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1950 by Roger Davis

I was born in Somersham in 1940, in my grandmother's house, which was 1 West End. My own house was known then as 6 Trinity Terrace, since changed to 90 High Street. Until the mid 1950s a lot of the houses were quite ...Read more

A memory of Somersham in 1940 by Frances Marshallsay

My wife and I visited your lovely church in July 1982 where we discovered that our family bible was used on the pulpit every Sunday. The Bible was donated by my ancestor, Mary Corpe in approx. 1854. We were told Mary Corpe ...Read more

A memory of Fivehead in 1982 by Robert Corpe

I worked at the gas board showroom on Dartmouth Road. It was next door to the bank on the corner of London Road. As well as selling gas appliances and receiving payment on gas bills we used to sell bags of "shillingsis!" for ...Read more

A memory of Purley by Raymond Day

Barbara Brian.  I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap dancing ...Read more

A memory of Bishopstoke in 1930 by Frederick Cannock

I have so many memories of Delamere but unlike the others who have written on this page my recall of the names are not so good.  I tend to see things as pictures (and have a good memory for faces) and have vivid ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1966 by Jane Castrignano

Thinking of Lloyds Bank I wonder if anyone remembers the uncle from 'Only Fools and Horses', he was the bank manager at Lloyds in Byfleet, in more recent years (1970s) he would always chat to everyone once he had started on the ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet in 1970 by Christine Woodruff