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Summer of 76 ... me and Vincent Stokes camping up the quarry, oopps fire, daming the river down the rugby field and swimming all summer long ...best days of my life. Wattsville was the dogs, Beechwood Ave.

A memory of Wattsville by Dave Jones

During the late 1940s and early 1950s my brothers and I were Scouts and each summer we went to Scout Camp at Westgate on Sea. There was no M20 in those days so our journey by lorry took us through Maidstone High ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone by Ken Cook

In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Oban in 1942 by Brian Woodward

What a weekend that was! Friday to Sunday with glorious weather, camping in the grounds of Loxwood Village Hall and all the organisation of a splendid Morris Dancing tour taken care of ...Read more

A memory of Loxwood in 1989 by John Howard Norfolk

My parents used to camp there before the Second World War, they used to go most weekends. My first memories of Newhaven were of camping after the war I was five. We used go most weekends. My father built his first ...Read more

A memory of Newhaven by Joyce Aedy

I have photos taken in the late 20s at Blackdown of my father Sapper Claude Harper. He was a 'mechanical engineer ' and twenty two years old, he later went over to France in 1939 with the BEF, any info would be gratefully acknowledged.

A memory of Deepcut in 1920 by Tony Harper

It used to be all fields around Dawley Bank before thay started building houses and Telford town centre. When we were kids, we could play out all over the place without any threat to us, we could build camps in the woods and Tarzan ...Read more

A memory of Dawley Bank in 1970 by Carl Wood

Although I no longer live in Northumberland, I still have a soft spot for North Broomhill. I was born in School Row in 1943. From there we moved to Coronation Terrace in 1947 which was a complex of rudimentary row of two ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1940 by Albert Taylor

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

I was posted to RAF Norton in 1960 and told by the powers that be to catch a bus (number ??) from the railway station to the camp. I asked the conductor to tell me when I got to the stop. He said "RAF Norton, I've not heard of that". He ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield by Michael Harnett