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My Grandmothers family came from Great Wakering. Her name was Daisy Alp. Her brother and father were both blacksmiths in the village. My Great uncle Stanley and his wife Doris lived in the village too along with ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering by pam.woodcroft

I lived at 12 Stanley Cottages, Lanes End with my aunt on several occasions, when my mother was ill in hospital. I loved the area, & made many friends while I was there. My mother was born at number 12, ...Read more

A memory of Green Street Green in 1940 by Barry Edwards

hi my mother may joyce johns lived in greenford Jeymer drive, she had one older brother george and younger brother robert. I believe her parents ran a post office they were stanley and ida. My mother had a ...Read more

A memory of Greenford by Amy Bowie

I was married in 1982 and moved into Park Farm (next to the church). There was a school, a church, village hall, a bowling green, two social clubs BNFL & EAT, a railway station and the Women's ...Read more

A memory of Capenhurst in 1982 by Joanna Pemberton

I lived in Stanley Avenue off Filton Avenue and went to Shields Road Primary School before transferring to Thornbury Grammar in 1955. I remember going to the Cabot cinema for the ABC Minors and coming home via the playing fields near Shield ...Read more

A memory of Filton in 1955 by Paul Whatley

For two-and-a-half dreadful years, from July 1942 to October 1944, my parents and I survived in three rooms at the top of number 40, Victoria Road, rented from a Mrs Pither. Only the front two rooms, overlooking the street, were habitable ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1942 by Alan Hickman

Hello My name is Chris Dann I am a direct decendant of Frank Gilbert Bird of Honingham, England and I am looking for decendants of his brothers and sisters. Frank had an older brother named Charles Edward Bird born in 1893, a younger ...Read more

A memory of Honingham in 1890 by Chris Dann

I remember the Great Float, Mona Castle, Five Bars and the Stanley Arms and the Bird and Hand. I used to go round with Johnny Rutter, Bobby Benette, Geof Kilby and a lot more. They were the good old days, going to Davey Jones ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey by June Hoey

Does any one remember the Moore family from Poplar Street South Moor. My grand father was born at number 19. As the family left school they took up trades at the Louisa Pit in Stanley. In 1925 his mother Jane Esther Moore (nee ...Read more

A memory of Stanley in 1920 by Cheryl Mellan

I am trying to find out infomation about Stanley H Davies. He was the owner of Stanley H Davies Motor Engineers in the 1950s in Harborne Lane. I believe he lived on Harborne Lane next to a pub and was possibly married to a ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1950 by Lania Lloyd