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My friend Raymond Slinn was the last bar man to work in the Adelphie Hotel and he was telling me about it when I stayed with him in his home in Tenerife where he is retired. Apparently when the Adelphie was pulled down grown men cried ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1965 by Ken Edwards

Any news /photos/records of Uxmore Farm, Ipsden would be welcome. I have been to Ipsden Heath and Stoke Row, visiting relatives but not actually visiting Uxmore Farm. since my father and grandfather farmed there in the early 1900s I ...Read more

A memory of Ipsden by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

I worked in the Tony Bros Ice Cream factory as a school holiday job in 1967 or 68. I vividly remember Tony Tedeschi, who chain smoked Benson and Hedges, Derek the gentle giant who took me under his wing and the lovely Yolande. It ...Read more

A memory of Acton in 1967 by Hugh Macken

I was born in Rettendon  in 1938.  My father (Ernest James Hazell) and mother ( Ellen Wiseman)  were both born in the village as were my maternal grandmother and great grandmother. As a child I remember watching aircraft flying home ...Read more

A memory of Rettendon by Keith Hazell

I was born in Hornchurch in 1934, but my mother, father and myself were the first residents of 121 Warren Drive, Elm Park.  My brother was born in the house at 121, in 1945.  This is the last view I had of the street, as we left in a taxi, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1930 by First Name Last Name

The hot summer of 1976 - I was 16 and studying for my O levels in between minding the shop for my adopted parents Bert and Mary Belli. Our cafe was one of two Belli cafes in the town, but of course I always thought ours was superior and ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon in 1976 by Stephen Belli

In June 1964 a group of us Belfast grammar school boys crossed the sea to Liverpool and took the long coach journey south to spend the school summer vacation working in the Bournemouth beach cafes. Three of us shared a bedroom at ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1964 by John Mc Millan

Of course they had been nicely re-furbished and with all mod cons like running water and electricity. It was a nice experience living in a thatched house and, believe me, they aren't full of spiders and not as much ...Read more

A memory of Thatcham in 1983 by Donald Macdonald

Whenever I heard the words "The Mumbles" as a child, it conjured up a very romantic image in my mind. According to family history, my Great-grandfather Thomas Stokes proposed to my Great-grandmother Matilda Thomas there. I can just ...Read more

A memory of Mumbles, The in 1890 by Karen Larson

We used to stay at Three Ashes, Stoke Hill with my grandparents most summers in the fifties. They were called Moore. My mother (now deceased) was called Enid Moore and was brought up by her grandparents, John Moore a ...Read more

A memory of Stoke St Michael by Lnda Wilson