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In January 1917, my grandfather, Percy Smith, a young soldier from Australia, was on leave from the Front in France. He visited a family in Camelford, and this is the letter he wrote home to his sister. I would love to know ...Read more

A memory of Camelford in 1910 by Sally Edsall

I went to Uplyme school from about 1958/59, I was about 8 years old, we lived in Combpyne and came to school by bus which we caught at Rousden.  My memories of the school are three sisters by the name of Taylor, one I think was ...Read more

A memory of Uplyme in 1958 by Sally Cundall

After dad got his first car, an Austin A30, he used to take me and my younger brother out for trips a little further afield, and Wire Mill Dam was one of our very favourite places. We'd be armed with a jam jar and ...Read more

A memory of Sheffield in 1959 by Jean Smith

I was born at School House, Crawley Down in 1941.  My Gran and Grandad (Reg & Florrie  ... known as Ducky ...Fry)  lived there for many years. My elder sister Jean and I (Jacki) lived there with my Mum, Marjorie ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1941 by Jacki Moon

I was 9 years old when we came to live in Combpyne, we lived at the end of the village accross the road from a farm where my father worked. The farm must have belonged to the Webbers as I remember they had a son called Giles, like ...Read more

A memory of Combpyne in 1959 by Sally Cundall

I have very fond memories of the childrens pool in Lee-on-the-Solent where I used to live between 1960 to 1966.  Many summer days were spent at the pool which was located adjacent to the beach. I remember I learned to swim ...Read more

A memory of Lee in 1965 by Rosemary White

Hi there.  My father-in-law was born in Gilfach Goch but left when he was a child.  It was not long ago me and my husband took him back and he was quite shocked to see how much the place has changed. The address he used to live at ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1930 by Bobbie Cook

I moved to this village in 1967 aged 14. The main building in the centre of the picture is a bank, I think it was the National which later became the National and Westminster Bank. Beyond the bank and to the right on the corner was a ...Read more

A memory of Freckleton in 1967 by David Moore

As a pupil at Launde School it was compulsory that we were taught to swim at Oadby Swimming baths, for those of you who know Oadby today it wasn't the newly built baths on Brabazon Road, the baths were in the centre of the village, it ...Read more

A memory of Oadby in 1968 by Karen Miller

My family of four childen, my husband and I, moved into part of a large country house known as 'Ravenscourt', standing in 3 acres of land: we named our semi "Little Ravenscourt'. Within our back ...Read more

A memory of Great Amwell in 1964 by Edith Wood Smith