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Over Here... The first American troops to arrive in our part of the world arrived in 1942. The came to what became know as Sudbury Camp (nearly in Marchington). A hospital was built at the present site of HMP Prison. A great ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall by John Mellor

I was born and brought up in Hadleigh. I was born at home in Beresford Gardens, third of seven children. I went to school at the "new" infants school and the red brick built junior school, lots of memories, mostly good. ...Read more

A memory of Hadleigh in 1968 by Sandra Jones

We moved to Cattedown in 1952 when I was 8 years old, to Tresillian Street. My first memory is of the Coronation celebrations and a resulting street party, when we received Coronation Mugs, had bicycle decoration contests and street ...Read more

A memory of Cattedown by Jeffrey Smith

I visited Dungannon several times with my father who was born in the Lindesayville Cottages in 1923, his mother's family, the Stranaghans, lived at number 17 and my father lived second from the bottom end. The family attended ...Read more

A memory of Dungannon by Martha Warrander

I was 10 years old when I visited the hotel run by my father's cousin George Appleton. We were visiting from Cape Town South Africa. I virtually had the beach to myself during that time and had a wonderful time exploring, ever ...Read more

A memory of Lavernock in 1952 by Peter Newill

To me the first eleven years of my life, growing up in Quarry Bank, was the most enjoyable. I was born Kenneth Graham Sewell, on the 26th January 1947, at 59 Saltwells Road, now renamed White City, and the whole country was in the ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1947 by Ken Sewell

I was brought up in Lichfield and attended St. Michaels Primary School and left to attend Kings Hill Secondary School when it opened in September of what must have been 1957 if my maths are correct. I lived near to Stowe Pool and ...Read more

A memory of Lichfield in 1957 by Pat Blears

To the right of the Town Hall is Wote Street and my father Ronald was one of the sons that worked in Tyrrells fishmongers all of his life, he can remember delivering fish from a horse and cart, the fish shop has now gone, that was a sad day

A memory of Basingstoke in 1900 by Jon Tyrrell

I was brought to Luton, 219 Ashcroft Rd when I was four years old. the cottage we lived in was part of Farmer Holdstocks farm, it was origanally the Cowmans cottage. It was here that my Dad , Fred Chater and Mum Violet, raised ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Sandy Mc Dowell

My husband Bill and I married in Brantingham Church on a cold day in January 1959, the snow lay thickly on the ground. We moved into Holderness Cottage, adjoining Holderness House, the home of Mrs Dunn, an elderly lady of ...Read more

A memory of South Cave in 1959 by Jean Carr