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I'm trying to find information about the Bernard Smith family who lived at Barrymore, Bow Lane in the late 1800s/early 1900s. My grandmother Alice Mary Odgers had a studio in their house where she painted for 10 years before she married in 1915. The 2 daughters of the family were her bridesmaids

A memory of North Finchley by dicksfun

I was born in 1941 my dad bought the house in Lower Morden Lane in 1939,I went to Morden Farm School. Morden was a great place to be as a child I remember starting school and not liking it one bit I only started liking it in the last few ...Read more

A memory of Morden by David Huggett

My parents had a ground floor flat in Wood End Lane, and my father worked in a reserved occupation at AEC in Southall. In late 1940, my mother was pregnant with me, and she went to stay with her brother in Durham, wher I was born. I was ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by williamfairney

Kidder fire station was then the North Division headquarters of the old Worcester & County Fire Brigade . Aged 20 I started my first day as a fireman in July 1965 here. Some of the watch I served with were ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster by douglpaulin

I am going back to the mid '70s here. I have found no reference to the lake anywhere, but it is not related to the Gurney Slade quarries. As a schoolboy, living in Shepton Mallet, I was keen on fishing. I ...Read more

A memory of Bruton by bru.enzer

I remember dover street very well. I worked on the Wilson Walton site constructing equipment for the north sea in the mid seventies as a crane driver. I lodged with a lovely lady Mrs Renie Pearson at No 6 Dover Street for a few ...Read more

A memory of Cargo Fleet by dharding39

Have done Penmark research as my Grt Grandmother was from Penmark to - Missouri coal mines back to Sefton (pump still there, south and east of 6 Bells). It seems that there is a mix-up between Kenson Cottage and ...Read more

A memory of Penmark in 1900 by T Donn Roberts

Can anyone remember the church (methodist) you could go in from North Road or from Crossgate, across from St Margaret's Church! I remember the family living in the church house - the Parks (June/Madaline)?

A memory of Durham in 1957 by Marjorie Anderson

I was born in Etton EAST YORKSHIRE It was always Yorkshire for me never humberside

A memory of Etton

The side road (foreground) was one of two streets in Digswell both called Station Road! To remove the confusion, this one was renamed Adele Avenue some time before 1937, after the lady of the only house in the street at ...Read more

A memory of Digswell in 1978 by Peter Neville