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I remember attending the village school opposite Holy Trinity Church of which I was a chior boy for a few years. We had a local football team made up of choristors - we were very good. I lived at the bottom of the village in New ...Read more

A memory of Long Itchington in 1950 by Roger Sheasby

Have just read about the gentleman who worked for Ledgers. I lived in Exeter Rd, and used to play with Joanne Ledger. I also remember going in the van with bench seats. I vaguely remember it being something to do with the ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1960 by Janice Wilson

As village 'Bobby' in the late 1960's early 70's, we, my wife and two daughters, lived in the Police House in Furnace Lane. Sometime about 1970 I called into the village shop (I think it was Fuller's) and the lady there asked me if ...Read more

A memory of Lamberhurst in 1970 by Barry Knell

I remember George's second hand shop in the village, my nan would take me and my brother there for a treat that was the highlight of the week for us. Also the pie and eel shop, with the brightly coloured tiles outside on the wall. ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1951 by Norma Dignum

I was born at 27 Croft Court, Smallthorne, in 1948, my father was born at 8 Back Crof in 1920. From when he left school in around 1934, he went to work in the coal mines. During the war years he went to join the army and ...Read more

A memory of Smallthorne by John Turner

We had a caravan in Kingsford Lane, Kinver from 1960 to about 1963, my dad bought it from someone in Wollaston and we used to stay there all the school holidays and weekends and my dad would go to work from there to Fry's ...Read more

A memory of Kinver in 1960 by Alan Hinton

Hi, it's not actually my memory but my dad's. He was in the RAF stationed at Ford, a Spitfire crashed in Felpham, I read somewhere it was on the tenth green of the golf course? The strange thing was, when my father was sent to remove ...Read more

A memory of Felpham in 1940 by David Millman

Wasn't this at one time a butchers and then later became the Ironmongers owned by the Cordingley family? I am talking about the early 1900's and am not quite old enough to remember that.

A memory of Great Bookham

I attended the local school. I now live in Tasmania, Australia. Seeing this photo of my school brings back so many happy memories. Mrs Butler was my headmisstress and I remained in contact with her even when they retired to the Isle of ...Read more

A memory of Standon in 1968 by Diana Fildes/Machin

I remember walking and splashing in the ford with my family.

A memory of Hinxton in 1963 by Stewart Kember