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Chew Magna, High School - this was in fact the High School for Sacred Heart High School & Preparatory School, which I attended for 3 years. I was in my first year senior's when the high school ...Read more

A memory of Chew Magna in 1983 by Helen May

I'm trying to trace my family tree and found that my g,g,g,grandfather Henry Travill, born 1829, lived in Corse up to 1886. Going back to my g,g,g,g, grandmother Ann Fisher, known as Nancy, was ...Read more

A memory of Corse by Joanne Keddie

Many is the time I have spent in that bus shelter, on a winters night, freezing, waiting for an Eastern National bus or a Campbell’s Flyer [1/2 penny cheaper in old money]. Having been to the Kingsway cinema and munching on a bag of ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1951 by Horace Rogers

I entered White's Children's Home and Mission (known as CH&M) in June of 1945 having come from Surbiton, Surrey. I was 9 years old. The home was situated in Church Rd opposite "The Pond", it is now a CO-OP supermarket.  There was a large ...Read more

A memory of Tiptree in 1945 by alanclffrd

Remember The Cross very well, worked my apprenticeship at Leighton Printing Works from 1950 to '55 when I joined the RAF, the photos bring back lots of memories. Went back in '77 to visit the old works to see if anybody remembered me. ...Read more

A memory of Neston in 1950 by William Mc Cully

I was born in Wales and lived at 3 Bailey Street until moving to Canada at age 10. All of my memories of Cwm are wonderful ones, sliding down the mountain on cardboard, wading in the river behind our house, climbing the hill to play at the ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1966 by Debbie Turner

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