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My family moved to Helions Bumpstead in around 1964. My parents renovated an old farmhouse which they named "Roslyns" because my Mum went to the Chelmsford Records Office and discovered that the place had been ...Read more

A memory of Helions Bumpstead in 1964 by Penelope Davies Brown

Robert Urquhart, as a young man, lived at 9 Mosset Street, Forres. That address may have been accommodation related to his job with the railway. Following his marriage, to Margaret Stewart / Stuart, Bob and Maggie Urquhart  lived at Elmlea ...Read more

A memory of Forres by R Urquhart

The village played an important part in my early life. My parents moved here in 1927 and bought a small cottage in Back Lane and named it 'Mon Abri'. I went to school here, up to 11, and then I was fortunate enough to ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Giles in 1930 by William Taylor

The Old Vicarage Cottage in Church Street is now home to the Parish Office and is a local access point for North Kesteven District Council. There is a good display of village photos, the building itself is about 350 years ...Read more

A memory of Billinghay

I used to live in the station yard at Ebchester, 3  Railway Cottages. I was there when the Railway Hotel was burnt down, at 5am in the morning. That's all for now. E. Collingwood

A memory of Ebchester in 1950

My mother and her sisters were married at St Michael's church at Lower Rochford. They lived at Peter's Cottage. Gran and Grandad Kennett used to be the caretakers of the church and are buried in the church yard.  It is the ...Read more

A memory of Lower Buckenhill in 1930 by Margaret Hampson

I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves from 1943-53, living in Beacon Road, number 65. My grandfather Handley lived in the last house in that row of white cement-rendered houses, it had the only garage in the row in which he kept his ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves by Michael Handley

I spent my childhood summer holidays with my Nanny at 7 Crown Row, Cwymtwrch, a whitewashed cottage on the main road. My Aunty Annie lived further up the road, opposite the grocers shop. Next door lived my 'Aunty Molly', she ...Read more

A memory of Lower Sketty in 1950

We visited Gipping in 2003 to try to get a sense of the place our ancestors left in 1859 to start a new life in New Zealand. The flatness of the area was a significant contrast to the rugged coastal lands they farmed on their arrival in ...Read more

A memory of Gipping in 1860 by Barbara Allan

My first recollection of Dersingham was as a seven year old boy in 1941. My mother, sister and I were evacuated from the East End of London during the blitz ...Read more

A memory of Dersingham by Karen Ebert