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By accident i have just come across this site- shame there are no memories already entered for abercwmboi- As a child I remember looking out of my Grandfathers front door or his bedroom window at the wonderful array of lights ...Read more

A memory of Abercwmboi by Denise Meadwell

I am researching the Thomas family, who were living in Llanbadarn Fynydd from 1841 to 1861 and then Llangurig at Bailey Farm. There were 12 children; Jane, Catherine, Ann, Margaret, Humphrey, ...Read more

A memory of Llanbadarn Fynydd in 1860 by Ken Evans

i spent my early days in welling having moved from Canning Town in 1938 lived at 6 Axminster crescent went to the new St Michaels Elsa road and Erith tech.schools. Visited the Embassy Roamed borstal woods Danson park and Fanny on the ...Read more

A memory of Welling by g.olmit

Hal's Café, The Caprice, Bernies, were the favoured meeting places for the Motor cycling boys form Morden and the surrounding areas shoving tanners in to the juke box and trying to make a cup of coffee last for about 3 or 4 hours. On ...Read more

A memory of Morden by malclatch

I was born in Addlestone down good old greenlane . I attend st pauls school until I left in 1969. I used to hang around crown cafe alot , there was never alot todo at night disco at the com center which always ended up with a fight .as I ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone by johnhoughton1955

I was born in 1955 and lived in Cwm, the village at the bottom of the mountain with Manmoel on top of it. We actually lived in Canning Street, which was about a mile from The Rhiw (pronounced Ru), which is what we called it. It was a long ...Read more

A memory of Manmoel by crystyn

So glad to review the two messages from former boys of Schooters Hill Grammar School in Woolwich, London. I ( A.David Barnes ) was there a little earlier: 1948-1955 with clear memories of WW II and London ...Read more

A memory of Shooters Hill by Arthur Barnes

My grandmother was Mary Davies who kept the pub until her death in 1959. I was born and brought up in the tiny village on top of the mountain between Cwm and Hollybush. My dad George was a farmer in the area until his death in 1978. ...Read more

A memory of Manmoel by Glyn Davies

The lovely Thomas family took me in as an evacuee during the war years, they had a daughter, Myra or similar. Sundays were special, we visited grandparents up on a hill. Moria C.M. Sunday School presented me with a ...Read more

A memory of Kenfig Hill in 1945 by Lilian Haslehurst (Fry)

When we moved to Snapewood, neither of us could drive, our father started to take us out in a yellow and black Hillman Imp. For people who don't know, an Imp has the engine at the back. It was the first car to have an overhead ...Read more

A memory of Wollaton in 1870 by Jean Smith