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My father built the square flat roofed house called Beverley on the sand dunes in the late 1920s next to the bungalow by the creek. It has since had two refurbishments, the first of which ...Read more

A memory of Anderby Creek in 1953 by John Stacey

I came to know Drummore when I met my husband in 1957. We married in 1960 and this year is our Golden Wedding. My memories of Drummore include Crawfords shop, The Queen's hotel with the great family feeling you got when ...Read more

A memory of Drummore in 1957 by Sheila Mc Gaw

My mum apparently worked in a cafe in Woolwich during 1955/56, it may have been near the market. I really need to know about all the cafes that were there at that time, who owned them? And does anyone remember the ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1956 by Linda Fletcher

Being born in a house opposite the Angel pub in 1952, and having a family history going back over 300 hundred years in the village, I think we were a local family. Those memories of the school holiday times will last a ...Read more

A memory of Stanton by Colin Fordham

How well I remember having to march down to the rectory for our school dinners, the chatter was mind-boggling, my grandma used to say!I can hear you boys coming as soon as you get by RA's shop", that was Instones the ...Read more

A memory of Broseley in 1947 by John Wilkes

As a pupil at Gosport High School, I had to attend swimming lessons first thing in the morning each week in the open-air, unheated pool at Gosport, in the school term following Easter. It was ...Read more

A memory of Gosport in 1953 by David Wybrow

I remember Huins shoe shop, and Evesham Street. I worked for a time in Liptons. I went to college in Birmingham and returned to Redditch to work in N. H. Harris hairdressers in Market Place, above the Singer sewing machine shop, ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1960 by Roger Nettleton

When I was young we would holiday in a caravan at a site near to Hollicombe in between Torquay and Brixham. As we lived in Walsall in the West Midlands this journey, by coach, was not to be undertaken lightly and a day was ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1956 by Michele Alberto

My Dad, Dennis (Den) Smith lived at 69 St. Andrews Avenue with his widowed mother Iris and his younger sister Mary. During WWII the area suffered bomb damage and dad and his sister were evacuated to ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1943 by Debra Budge

I attended Zeals C of E Primary school between 1958 and 1963. We actually lived over the border in Bourton (next to the White Lion pub) but the school was nearer than Bourton school. "Pop" Winter and his wife were the full time ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1958 by Simon Palmer