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I have a great-grandfather and several of his brothers who went to this grammar school in the 1830s and 1840s and they all had very nice writing with perfect copperplate. So maybe the severity on the outside was reflected in the ...Read more

A memory of Rye

I too, as others, have many fond memories of holidays in Sizewell. During summer school holidays I travelled from Scotland to London to be with my grandparents. They were well connected with Sizewell and would take me there ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell in 1953 by Ronald Mcdowell

My father Ted Friend was the millwright at Thorpeness for many years, he worked on the Ogilvie estate, and we lived at Thorpe Road. He and I would often walk on a Sunday afternoon around the mill, and Dad would tell me ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell by Yvonne Jeffries

My brother Arthur drowned in the River Ure.Does anyone remember this, and the Thorpe family?

A memory of Skelton on Ure in 1944 by Walter Thorpe

When my Great Aunt Phyllis Ivy Jarrett left school at the age of 13 (about 1918), she joined the domestic staff at Williamscot House, where she was an 'under-housemaid'. Phyllis used to send photos home to ...Read more

A memory of Williamscot in 1920

My lasting memory of the majestic cinema was going to Saturday morning pictures: with my sister Linda and all our mates watching Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Superman, The 3 Stooges and all the cartoons. I still love Tom and ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by James Dawson

My mother, Joyce Hogg, whose grandparents were Egglestone of Culgaith, used to tell us that her relatives, two aunts, used to run the Bridge Inn at Kirkby Thore in the 30's, 40's or 50's. Unfortunately I do not know their names or ...Read more

A memory of Kirkby Thore in 1930 by Jane Dunn

Miss Briggs was the most stern teacher I ever knew; she put the fear of God in me. Even now her names scares me. I always wondered how old she was when I was at St Marks, and Mr Thorpe was a nice man and also Mr Haig. I still have school photo which are so funny.

A memory of Bredbury in 1960 by Lavinia Thompson

I was born in 1952 in Redruth, but we lived in the prefabs which were built in Pengegon after the war. Two years later we emigrated to South Africa, where I still live. My mother, Thora Horler (nee Bawden) still talks ...Read more

A memory of Redruth in 1952 by Vivien Horler

I spent most of my younger life in Bexleyheath, we lived in Oaklands Road. I went to Upton Road Primary School, I remember that the Head Teacher was Miss Hughes. From there I went on to Bexleyheath Secondary Modern ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1951 by Arthur Paice