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Terence Rodin, born in 1944, we llived at my auntie’s house West Avenue/Central Drive until we moved into our own council house in Griffiths Drive. I remember attending St. John’s school on Middlewich Road. There was a single large ...Read more

A memory of Rudheath by t.rodin

My father, George Potten, worked at the paper mill. We first lived in May Street then moved to Mill Street, think it was 1960/61/62. I had a brother Michael and sister Maureen, we used to play in the railway yard or along the banks of ...Read more

A memory of Snodland in 1960 by Gill Harris

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

I was born in Hawkhurst at some ungodly hour on October 5th, 1949 at the Little Fowler's nursing home, which is why I probably inherited some of its smuggling influence! At that time my parents were ...Read more

A memory of Iden Green by Paul O'donovan

The Ring O'Bells was run by my grandparents, Ernest and Mabel Turner until the middle 1940s. I believe your earlier memory of it being called the Grapevine is wrong. I remember seeing the Grapevine, a much more modern building 500 yards ...Read more

A memory of Meare by John Turner

During the late 1880's my great grand father Thomas Sampson Lancaster farmed and raised his family of ten children in Hockley Heath, and Umberslade Church was their local place of worship. ...Read more

A memory of Ledbury by Edward Williams

The place where I grew up with my five brothers and my sister. We used to play cricket on the green but there is no room there now because of all the trees! There was a shop in those days too and a weekly bus into Hythe. We did not sit ...Read more

A memory of Burmarsh by Susan Davis

I. First. Went. To. Druids. In. 1957. On. A. 6. WK. Trial. Basis, I. Was. 14. ,loved. It. And. Went. Back. After. Xmas. Full. Time. A. Previous. Memory. On. This. Website. Mentioned. 2. Horses, gold. Nugget. And. ...Read more

A memory of Druid's Lodge by colinbrear1

My Dad and my uncle had a hardware shop/builders merchants in Bush Hill Park in the late 60s early 70s. I can't remember the name of the road it was on but it was at the end of a small parade of shops ...Read more

A memory of Bush Hill Park by e.kwame

i was at MBS from 1969 to 1972 i was 12 yrs old when i went there i was in Russell house number 17 we used to wear red mr link was the head house master his wife worked in the kitchen making flap jacks for supper ...Read more

A memory of Mobberley by david1011uk