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My mum Ruby Osbourne born in 1913 and her brothers and sisters grew up in Lowestoft. She married my dad a sailor in the Royal Navy and was then Ruby Pearce. She later moved to Wiltshire with my two brothers due to the Second World ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft by barree64

I have many happy memories of holidays spent at Dhoon from about 1934 to 1940, when I was under ten years old. My parents had visited the Isle of Man for many years before I was born and had discovered Dhoon on those visits. We used to lodge ...Read more

A memory of Dhoon by pandcvenour

Some of my happiest childhood memories are of the holidays the family spent at Withernsea, staying at my Grandmothers caravan. Her name was Clara Peat and my first visit would have been ...Read more

A memory of Withernsea in 1956 by David Peat

My Family moved in to N0 9 East Cliff in 1960, we moved from an old cottage across the beach where I was born in 1955. The cottage was demolished & some Garages were built in the place of the two cottages. Many people ...Read more

A memory of West Bay in 1960

I was born at 12 Lyndhurst Ave Southall on January 1941. My parents moved into this property in the late 30s. I remember a bit of the war when I was about three or four as we had a shelter in the back garden as we ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Eric Wedderburn

Colomendy Camp was my first job after leaving school. I worked in the main house as a maid and then went to work in the dining hall of the boys' camp. I worked there for a year before moving on to the Glass Factory in Saltney. I loved ...Read more

A memory of Loggerheads in 1951 by Jean Linton Schoonover

My father, Charles Axford, found a mine on the beach in the morning. As it was a hot summers day he carried it into the back room upstairs of the Watch House as he knew many people would be coming & informed the ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1944 by Christine Dodgson (Nee.Axford)

moved into cllffe, north road in 1969, sold up in 1976 n moved to berrycourt cottages cooling street, would love some old photos of our home to scan and save, all would be returned, desperate for pics of berrycourt cottages

A memory of Cliffe in 1870 by Mick Mew

I attended Palmers Green High School in the late fifties and early sixties. There were no school playing fields so we had to go to Ford's Grove in Winchmore Hill for sport. One day I and a group of friends went to find ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1959 by Marilyn Hall

The hotel was used by the Duke of York's Military School which had been evacuated from Dover - on the cliff tops. Wooden huts were erected along the cliff in front and alongside the hotel to be used as classrooms - each ...Read more

A memory of Saunton in 1944 by First Name Last Name