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My Mothers parents owned this house ,i remember a post card of it but lost in time, was great to find this photo.there surname christmas, mother was born boxing day.

A memory of Windlesham by Richard Druce

I was born in 1954 in Bideford. I went to a small private school near the strand but it closed down, then went to church infants school near St Mary's Church, then to another school near Abbotsham Road , then ...Read more

A memory of Bideford by yvonnecosmetic

We moved to Southall when my brother Peter was two 1959/60 From a maisonettes in Hayes. I remember my dad had a lot of work to do in the house in Greenford Avenue as when we moved in it had creosote on doors and dark green paint. It ...Read more

A memory of Southall by frances.nana6

The following is taken from my mother's memoirs and the time period Winifred would have worked at the Lodge was between 1929-1932. Her mother, Ann Pamela Myring (b 1887), is described as a 'Housemaid Domestic' in the 1911 ...Read more

A memory of Shenstone Lodge School by hilary.tait

During late July to early August, 1966, while visiting the U.K. from the States, I stayed in a stone duplex off the eastern main road into Cirencester from Oxford. One half of the house was occupied by three students from the Royal ...Read more

A memory of Cirencester by mzivich

Diary of a Toe Rag is all about my early life from Harlesden in the 1950s through to a new life in Hemel Hempstead. Check it out on Google, but here's the synopsis: More than 28,000 ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by steveriches

My grandparents, Kenneth Gordon and Mavis Lyne Smith, opened this hotel in 1923. The money came partly from Mavis' mother, Harriet, who had been widowed in Barbados c.1897 and was left a substantial amount of money. Harriet purchased the Clifton Hotel and ran it until 1933.

A memory of Folkestone

I'd forgotten the name - until recently when I was reading through letters sent by my father while on Army Service in West Africa during World War II. My mother and I were living with his parents in Great Bookham (I ...Read more

A memory of Hawk's Hill by jennylane305

I had the huge displeasure of being sent to Warden House School in Crowborough Sussex. I ran away from the school on several occasions. The head master was Alan H Long. His wife Biddy and two daughters Rosemary and one whose name I cannot ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough by mikemansel

Started school in Daviot primary aged nearly six in 1958. Only there a short time. My brother who was six years older was also there. My amity lived in an old house a few miles away and my ...Read more

A memory of Daviot by helenirh