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How could I forget another treat - a day out in Barry! This was before the fairground entertainments were there; there was just miles and miles of sand (at least that's how it seemed to me). I think we used to get ...Read more

A memory of Bedlinog by Margo Smith

I was born in 1934 and lived at 26, Gatonby Street until I married in 1955 so I have a vast store of memories of "old" Peckham both before, during and after the war I went to school at Oliver Goldsmiths and two things in particular ...Read more

A memory of Peckham

Sad boat accident Monday morning 26th March 1877 at Ryton. There were two brothers named Scott who lived in a house on Ryton Island, this was just below Moor Court. (You can read about this in my other stories). The brothers had ...Read more

A memory of Ryton

RECOLLECTIONS OF ASH VALE By Lt Col Taylor Ash Vale, viewed from the main route through it the Frimley and Ash Vale roads would not have appeared to alter a lot during the last 100 years. Houses do now ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale by nemeton2

I worked as a consultant engineer in Ireland in the early nineteen ninety's staying in the Carrickdale hotel in Dromad, just over the border, as my base in the South whilst working in Newry. I also traveled ...Read more

A memory of Ballymascanlon by ducatee

I can still sing this old school song and remember the school motto "Nothing but the Best" inLatin of course. I still have those rolled up group photos but also my badge from my blazer, Thanks for the memory.

A memory of Braintree by sylvied7

Opposite Deans Gardens was a little 2nd hand electrical and record shop. It was about two shops down from Drayton Green Road. Previously it had been on the other side of the road opposite the Wimpy Bar. There ...Read more

A memory of West Ealing by Nick Beard

I am trying to obtain information regarding a mid- air collision over Bracknell Berkshire in the 1940’s. Believed to be 1943 but could a few years away from that date. It is believed to be between a Hurricane and a ...Read more

A memory of Abingdon-on-Thames by stephenclark00

I used to visit a lady called Sarah Dixon with my mother in law in the 1970s. She used to play the organ at Croglin Church and her two sons farmed nearby. I believe one of her son's owned part of the fell behind the farm and another son ...Read more

A memory of Croglin by Margaret Cooke

We lived at 70 Bridlington street from 1974 until 1988. The house and all those in Park rise were brand new. At the time our friends were Delvine and John Street, Chris and Roy Bartram, Carol and Gary Frear, Janet and Geoff Smith and ...Read more

A memory of Hunmanby by plumber