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RAF Upavon first came to my attention while on my Air Radar Fitters course at RAF Yatesbury in 1961. I was taken by a friend to the Gliding Club operating from Upavon and quickly got hooked on flying. The CFI at the time was ...Read more

A memory of Upavon in 1961 by Christopher Morris

I would like to know what was the history of the old Tudor-looking public toilet building that used to be at the bottom of the bus station when I was growing up in the 1950s. It was a shame to see it demolished. Does anyone remember ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford by Victoria Manning

60 Gonsolva Road...I lived here from 1947 until my family had to move out in 1960. Slum clearance they called it. One car in the road. The Batty family, who lived further down the road, went hopping every year. A flat back lorry ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1950 by Pamela Brooker

When I lived at the Pound I was a lot younger and at 28 took the licence of a closed rundown empty pub called The Pound, that morning I pulled my first pint in a pub in Oxford for the Oxford Mail to get a look of the new ...Read more

A memory of Goosey by Phil Evans

My Dad, Ray Hall, was born in Hutton. His dad John Hall was a tailor and his cousin May Hall ran the post office. I would come to the village as a child and often played with Basil, who lived with May. One winter I ...Read more

A memory of Hutton Rudby in 1952 by Peter Hall

I have just found that my family on my grandmother's side came from Wisley. Some lived Ripley, Byfleet, and Ockham, but most Wisley. 1841 1851 records onwards. Their name Woodger worked Park Farm.Pond Farm. The Hut. Wisley ...Read more

A memory of Wisley in 1860 by Ronald Stanley

I remember the sound of the clogs at 6am as people came past 6 Hilton Street (second house from mill).

A memory of Darwen in 1954 by Thomas Glass

In April 1963, my ex husband and I moved from Nottingham to Coultings, he to work on a farm owned by the Triggol family. We lived in a thick-walled cottage on the main road through Coultings, which had ...Read more

A memory of Fiddington in 1963 by Diane Kerwin

I lived in Devonshire Road from 1941 to 1962 and when we first arrived Intake ended with Warwick Road, Argyll Avenue and Cumberland Avenue for those of us that lived on this side of ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1944 by Frank Mowforth

The village school was very small and later converted into a home, but I will always remember Mr Riley the headmaster, an ex-Policeman who drove a very flashy sportscar to school (Equipe- something on the ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1970 by Robert Denning