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I used to hire the Council deck chairs and beach floats on East Looe beach and rake and clean out the beach tents as a student summer job. On the high tides when the tents were removed the sea would break against the promenade wall. ...Read more

A memory of Looe in 1965 by John Tyler

My father was a bank manager in Faringdon in the 1970s and managed the accounts of the Pusey estate and the Hornby family, owners of the estate. On one occasion, during an annual fete, Dad was asked to act treasurer of the fete. He ...Read more

A memory of Pusey in 1970 by David Pusey

My parents were married In St James Church, Christmas Day 1935. Both my mother's sisters & her brother were also married there, as was myself, two sisters, a cousin & nephew. He being the last, in June 1990. Before I ...Read more

A memory of Friern Barnet in 1930 by Dorothy Stock

My lifetime in Kirn ran from birth in 1948 until I left the area in 1968 to become a policeman in Newcastle upon Tyne. My family lived in Argyll Terrace (No. 8). I worked with George Fraser the grocer for at least seven years and ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1952 by Campbell Findlay

I went to Crawley Down school for a few years in the mid sixties and when I went back recently to have a look I found the Parish Church and school (now a private house and so much smaller than I ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1965 by Carol Evans

Hi.  I moved into the Gamecock in 1963 with my parents Norman and Jean Bennett and my brother Bryan, I was only two years old. My parents were landlord and land lady. Bartons grocers was next door, there was no Gamecock Field as ...Read more

A memory of Harworth in 1963 by Eleanor Hipwell

Our family moved to New Haw when the new council houses were built at Heathervale. We lived at 26 Park Side. Everybody moved in about the same time so during the fifties there was great community spirit in our street. The ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1956 by Michael Ponting

and died in 1883, Emma had a son, Thomas Leonard Smith, and he was brought up as one of the children and became a butler in North Wales and died in 1915, he left a widow and 2 daughters but never knew Emma was his ...Read more

A memory of West Felton in 1880 by patriciahughesbrynymaen

Welcome to all. Most of my life was spent in Leadgate where I enjoyed living. I moved to a beautiful village called Milborne Port near a nice town called Sherborne in Dorset. I am married to a beautiful women called Caroline who ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1970 by Stephen Yallop

It is quite possible that the the little boy to the right in this picture is me at age six. My family used to stay at a friend's caravan in the park above the cliffs. During the summers of 1954 through 1958 we stayed ...Read more

A memory of Lavernock in 1955 by Phillip Armour