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I was just reading the memory by Geoff Taylor and thought how weird it was that his grandad Robert Bignell was a shepherd at the Manor House and I Patricia Bignell am currently employed at the Manor house as housekeeper. Could ...Read more

A memory of Warmington by Patrica Bignell

We arrived in Brixham in the spring of 1954, our first 'home' was a one bedroom   basement 'flat' in Torquay. I found plumbing work on a block of flats at Plainmore, and became close friends with Brian and Whin Dovey from the Newton Abbott ...Read more

A memory of Brixham in 1954 by Tony Harper

I used to visit my grandparents Ike and Gwladys Morgan at 9 Sea View Terrace nearly every school holiday until I was 13. My sister and I loved to play on the witch's hat on the common - just across the road from our grandparent's house.

A memory of Cefn Cribwr

One memory of my time spent at St Peter's as a border (my house been The Rise )were the God awful brown blazers purchased from Moss Bros (of York). It wasn't that they were uncomfortable that was the problem, it was the rule that they had ...Read more

A memory of York in 1985 by Steven Paley

Me Da and Ma. This is about 1949. Me Da came from Clara Vale and grew up there in 1 West View (which was a small two bedroom stone cottage) with Granda and his six brothers, Billy, Bobby, Joe, twins Jim and John and Eddy who was the ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1949 by Jimmy Burrows

This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the steam ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

As an eight year old boy I lived at Long Wivets, the third house in this photo. We lived there in 1955 and 1956. My father was Lt. Andrew Dill and he was stationed at Brize Norton. That was a very nice time of my life and I enjoyed ...Read more

A memory of Burford by Matthew Dill

Since my blog of 2007 concerning my time as a boarder at the Visitation Convent school 1942-1947, I have noted with interest that other former pupils (though not from the years I was there) have commented on their ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1940 by James Mc Guinness

Ingram Richards was my grandfather. My father (John) was the only child of Ingram to emigrate (in 1927) to Australia. Dad died in 1978. I am a former Australian regular army officer and visited Wimborne on a couple of ...Read more

A memory of Wimborne Minster in 1975 by Owen Richards

Hi, I was born in Stafford and emigrated to Australia in 1975 and I have not revisited England since. Me and my older sister remember vividly exploring 2 old houses (Im unsure of how old they were) which were demolished in the early to mid ...Read more

A memory of Stafford in 1973 by Lisa Upton