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Our family lodged with a Mrs Cotter at XX Dartford Road during the 1940s.After leaving her home I used to visit her and often notice she had bruises on her.Then one day in 1946 we were in Margate on a day trip and the newspaper seller ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by johnrank

how things have changed in old days you would be able to leave your back door open for people to pop in have cup of tea, as my mum then child would say. her dad was down in mines digging for coal . then when the national service came ...Read more

A memory of Tredegar by Janet Ingate

in 1959,. as a lad i used to catch a train from rotherham with my friends to fish in the canal, we were able to buy chocolate, crips and lemonade from the station.we also made friends with a family named Zenall the live on Jaques bank by a ...Read more

A memory of Medge Hall by jonesmelvyn

I was raised in Mandeville Road where my mum and dad had lived since 1953, a year after the houses were completed. Ours was the last brick built, no 7, before they started building the pre-fab houses from steel frame and concrete panels. ...Read more

A memory of Brampton by neil

I have loads of memories - I moved here with my family in 1956 (aged 8) - I just read about the changing huts out at the Castle - what a lot of fun was had in them!! A big memory for me was of the Blacksmiths (the Middletons) - I spent as ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth by fionartait