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We returned to Greywell after a time away, my father worked again for Lord Dorchester however this time we lived in the house near the farm instead of the village. We were sure that it was haunted as we could hear noises in the ...Read more

A memory of Greywell in 1958 by Patrice Amor

I think overall I enjoyed my time at the comp. It had its bad times, Billy Raybould, Welsh master, I hated him, he was a mental and at times a physical bully. And him a Welsh International to. Ended up wagging his lessons for ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1968 by Colin Bennett

My great uncle Mr Arthur Real who was born at Axmouth Devon in 1886 and grew up there, started a business in Castle Cary Somerset with Mr Walter Holton from Trowbridge Wiltshire in the 1930s. They named ...Read more

A memory of Castle Cary in 1940 by Kay Foulger

Earliest memories... staying home from school (Church School now Russell Hall) in the winter because the boiler had burst. Swinging on my gran's gate on Highfield Terrace, and playing with a teaset and dolls pram in her house, and ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury by Margaret Stork

In 1944 my mother was in the Ruskin Emergency Hospital in Oxford giving birth to my brother. Before going to hospital she sent me to the Kathleen Schlesinger Home at Russels Water. I was 4 years old but I do remember ...Read more

A memory of Russell's Water in 1944 by Richard Wilmot

Hello Margaret, I knew the Cowleys and the Laidlaws, but only as acquaintances. I did work with a Miss Pauline Cowley and lived opposite a Mr and Mrs Cowley in Northfield Road near Cockfosters,New Barnet. I don't know how ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

I was born in No 9 Manor Bungalows (The Prefabs), in 1947, Channel View wasn't built then, the area was laid to allotments & then open meadow to Gelli Crescent & Tynycwm Halt Railway platforms. In 1955 the second Phase of ...Read more

A memory of Pontymister in 1955 by Lyndon Ivin

1957, I am six years old. I am with my twin sisters who are ten and we are in the biggest house we have ever seen, a mansion with massive gardens, a children's home. The reason we are here is that my mother is in hospital and our ...Read more

A memory of Sproughton in 1957 by John Barrington

We moved to Frimley from Sutton as part of the London overspill. I was 2 when we moved into a house in Ansell Road. I remember my childhood with fond memories. I remember an old pig sty where Stonehouse Rise is now, I had some great ...Read more

A memory of Frimley in 1961 by Bob Lucas

I remember the big question "Are you a saint or a sinner?". I still have my badge to this day, alas I was a sinner, lol.

A memory of Heysham in 1965 by Geoff Eley