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I n 1965 my parents retired to Saltash and my father built himself a small boat. As it was moored off the end of the garden. He looked around for a dingy to get to and fro and eventually found one in Gunnislake. Guess who got the ...Read more

A memory of Gunnislake by Chris Scott

My parents, Edward (Jack) and Mavis Byard and myself and German Shepherd Dog Julie, moved from Poole, in Dorset, to live in a de-commissioned British Power Boat Motor Torpedo Boat, 451, in November 1947. My father worked ...Read more

A memory of Lymington by Michael Byard

I'm Teresa Shackell/Torrington I remember very well my nana used to work washing the dishes and I used to go regularly over to the three salmons hotel and help her she was in her 90s then she never gave up her little ...Read more

A memory of Usk by teresashackell

I lived in Glanville Drive, a residential road off Upminster Road about 100 yards to the west of Wingletye Lane, for the first part of my life from 1947 so I knew the area well. The building on the corner ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

I lived in Glanville Drive for the first part of my life from 1947. Out nearest post office was in Woodhall Parade, just over the railway bridge in Wingletye Lane, One thing that sticks in my mind is that the ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by John Fricker

I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more

A memory of Faversham by Peter Manuel

When my family moved here I was only 7 and there was only a cottage on the left at bottom of Brae and a row of four terraced houses on the left, they were holiday homes for my grandmother and her sisters. We lived there with no ...Read more

A memory of Mid Calder by Doreen Knox

My parents and I spent several vacations at Higworth farm caravan camp in the early/ mid 50's. I remember my Father having to get out of the coach, along with others, to lighten the load to cross the bridge. On the way to the beach we ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island

During the 60s I lived in Surbiton and worked in Hersham. As I was getting ready to leave for work one morning in 1968, a radio broadcast warned of severe flooding along the Mole valley following heavy rains, and ...Read more

A memory of Hersham by Tony Newman

I still see the journey from my home in Morecambe to start my senior school years. First the bus from my home on Regent Road to the Midland Hotel. Then, across to the station for the train to Green Ayre station. ...Read more

A memory of Lancaster by Joan Tew