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I lived on Thinford Street the mail road, behind us were the houses known as The Blocks which only had dirt tracks as roads, no tarmac. We had the church beyond the blocks which was made of impressive stone and on Thinford St we had the ...Read more

A memory of Metal Bridge in 1949 by Wilf Moore

My playground when I was young. Long summer days swimming in the ponds and lovely walks to the windmill. I remember falling through the ice one winters day. Brrr!!! Not recommended.

A memory of Wimbledon by d.feist

My name is Robert Best. I was born June 24th. 1939 in Plymouth and evacuated to Princetown in 1941. My Mother, her parents and I moved to Plympton when I was 3 years old. I have clear memories of Princetown, of riding the train up ...Read more

A memory of Plympton by rjbmk

I grew up in Nizewell Head, we spent a lot of our time playing on the green with our friend's on bike's and playing in our gardens. This was in the 1970's and 80's we would walk around the village go to the shop and down to the river. I ...Read more

A memory of Steeple Aston by wills

The large house on the left of your photo was the Astill farm house . My grandfather Thomas Harrison originally was the groom to the hunting horses . He later took over as Shepherd to a large flock which grazed at ...Read more

A memory of Cossington

I was born in the flats in Dudley road in 1947 my mum [joyce] always told me extremely hot summer and freezing cold winter used to play gasworks a lot my grandparents lived at the end of stoney lane inside the gates north ...Read more

A memory of Southall by michael.barton3

Granny married George Norbury ( she already had 4 children including my Dad ) so they all lived over the ' shop' in High Street. ( 1920s ) Before the war ( it was winter ) I was born, it says Market Square, always thought that was a cold ...Read more

A memory of Stone

In the 1940s and 1950s as a young lad and then teenager, I used to spend my summer holidays with my grand parents who lived at 171 St. Helens Road Hastings. I have very fond memories of Hastings in general and in particular of ...Read more

A memory of Hastings by toebrown

I was born in the Munro Hotel, which was built by my great grandfather. Before that he was the teacher in the village school. Growing up in the village in the 1950's was amazing. We had total freedom,of the hills and the river or out on ...Read more

A memory of Strathyre by marykerr21

My name is Bill Young not related to the girl with the same name above, and I too was at the Edith Brough home in Whaggs Lane Whickham. I went there with my brother Bobby in the late 1940's, probably about 1946/7/8 ...Read more

A memory of Whickham by bjyoung2009