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I have virtually all these original post cards as shown on this site. After my grandfather (Harry Bullen), Holmbury Post Master, stopped publishing his own, he changed to Friths. My bedroom was in the western end ...Read more

A memory of Holmbury St Mary by Stephen Bullen

The 4th Regt returned from BOAR duty in Kiel Germany the spring of 1948. We were given 'Disembarkation Leave', then whilst on leave; were granted 'Accommodation Leave' as the Barracks were not ready for us. In ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1948 by Joseph Watkin

I remember Duddon when it had two shops the post office and a generalstore, and a vibrant pub. It was a brilliant village to grow up in with the monthly dances at the village hall.

A memory of Duddon by Ann Hughes

Happy memories of visiting Wincobank to see my grandparents. They used to live in the back to backs on Newman Rd. My mother lived there until she joined the land army and was posted down to Aylesbury. We used to travel up by train, ...Read more

A memory of Wincobank in 1958 by Janet Knight

1940 - I had joined the W.A.A.F in London and chose to be posted to Nottinghamshire; I was just 18 and my posting was firstly to Hucknall and then to Watnall when the Ops room was ready. 1940 was a dreadful winter but thanks to the snowfalls ...Read more

A memory of Eastwood in 1940 by Margaret Scribens

Having survived WW2 as a frontline 'Signaller' in post D Day operations, Dad had a yearning for living afloat and after seaching boatyards on the Hamble River, eventually found a converted 'LCA' (Landing Craft ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1948 by Roy Pigneguy

I have just discovered this wonderful website today and oh what memories come flooding back. I was born in Lower Shott in 1954 and lived there until I was about 23. I remember these shops so well. Being sent by my mum to ...Read more

A memory of Great Bookham in 1960 by Anne Norris

I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got married, ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

Well, Byrness Utd, the lads in the village made the team up. We played local villages - we made the goal posts out of trees and we nicked the paint out of dad's shed to mark the pitch - this was around the year of 1967-68. We saved up ...Read more

A memory of Byrness in 1968 by Sean Skingsley

Although Runcorn born and bred, each year of my early childhood my parents would take us to visit Ingersley Hall in Bollington. By this time it was no longer a private country residence. It was owned and run by a ...Read more

A memory of Bollington in 1971