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Although I lived in Cookham Berkshire when I was about 11 yrs old, my parents decided to send me to boarding school. Which was St Finians, Cold Ash. It was a very emotional time being an only child, and I will never forget my ...Read more

A memory of Cold Ash in 1951 by Judith Lambert

Hi, my mum's family was from Ashgill, although I was born in Motherwell in1965 I like to regard myself from Ashgill. My grandparents were Daniel Gardiner and Isabella Barr. I am responding now because my auntie is now seriously ill and she ...Read more

A memory of Ferniegair in 1970 by Isabell Brown

My Dad was from Ashgill and my Mum was from Stonehouse. Emigrated to Canada in 1957 where I was born. First visit to Scotland in 1967 and met my grandparents in Ashgill - 15 Bogside Rd - Peter and Jeanie Hamilton. My Dad ...Read more

A memory of Ashgill in 1967 by Catherine Wells

It has been a while since I have entered my memory bank, but the impending arrival of my first grandchild from my Australian marriage is reason enough, strangely (or not). I was invited to move to Brisbane to be near my eldest son in 2009 ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 2013 by John Scott

At the age of nine, I had to come and live with my mother's parents, Albert and Emily Warner, at 3 Church Path (pair of cottages now pulled down, but their well - (what wonderfully tasting water, drawn up with a bucket) still remains now in ...Read more

A memory of Ash in 1950 by Ray Attwood

I was born above the old post office in Ashgill and my family moved to Cornsilloch when I was around 6 months old. My whole family from my grannie and grandad Nellie Waddell and John Smith and their parents Hugh Smith all lived ...Read more

A memory of Ashgill in 1930 by John Smith