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I remember the time when a poor boy stole ten shillings from a teacher's purse. Later the school was assembled, the gymnasium horse installed in front of the audience; we boys. The headmaster, instructed ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1958

I was born at 16 Roding Avene, the prefabs right next to the River Roding. Across the main London Road was Delayneys, also the Masters Match factory with its tall chimmney. I remember seeing the chimney being knocked down, the man at the ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Yvonne Tilbury

I had never been to the north of England, I am a Cockney London girl, four years ago I met my angel of the north, I came to Seaburn where he lived, I love the place and the people, for the first time in my life I felt a sense ...Read more

A memory of Seaburn in 2007 by Gillian Marison

My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses and a ...Read more

A memory of Bourne End in 1945 by Eileen Savedra

The newspaper published at Grantham in England, the original home of the ancestors of the well known Plumb and Parker families of Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass and Shelby Counties, recently carried a story ...Read more

A memory of Barrowby by Alan Plumb

It was the weekend of the Royal Wedding and on Sunday, the day before the May Bank Holiday, everyone was in a party mood. We took a party of dancers and musicians to the ...Read more

A memory of Christow in 2011 by John Howard Norfolk

My dad Henry Burton became Post Master at Dunks Green in the early 1950s. I had a wonderful childhood there. It was so quiet in the evenings that we played skipping with a long rope that was tied to the bus stop and ...Read more

A memory of Dunk's Green in 1953 by Angela Bagley

In the year of 1981 in Dublin (I'm from Antrim) I was lucky enough to meet a lovely girl called Fenella. I always wondered where her name came from.

A memory of Belfast in 1981 by Charles Nelson

My parents were both born in Kidderminster, one in 1937 and the other in 1938. They married in 1957 and came to America in 1958, my first trip was to Kidderminster in 1965. So I have many fond memories as a child being ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1965 by Jennifer Jamieson

Hello. This is not so much a memory as a request. After the war my dad and mum moved to Cwm Penmachno from Liverpool with my younger sister and myself. I was four and a half years old. My dad had a job driving a motor car for a ...Read more

A memory of Penmachno in 1951 by Stanley Fletcher