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I recently visited Wootton Wawen to look at the war memorial where my great-grandfather Samual James Whitehouse is mentioned. He was the local postman and sadly died at the beginning of the First World War. I felt ...Read more

A memory of Wootton Wawen by Jakki Ball

Hi there, I am trying to trace the daughter of William & Ethel King who lived in Haynes Road, Hornchurch for many years. Ethel passed away in 2004 at the great age of 93 so I am hoping that someone may be able to ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by sarahhendy

The 60ft, 11knot, TSMV "New Princess Maud" was built for our Family Company, the Southend Motor Navigation Co Ltd, by Cook's Yard on the Hythe at ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea by julian

What a wonderful site. I came across it while researching an accompanying book for my sister's planned 90 birthday Tour of Brentford in June this year. We lived in Brentford from around 1930 until 1976 when our mother died. They were ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by bildoric

Can anyone help please. My father found 2 boxes of slide film at a Carboot sale just recently and would love to pass these back to their owners. The slides of around 700 show ballroom dancing at the Locarno ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by juella1963

I was born at 78 Celandine Road in 1949. My mother told me that it was a very cold March day and had been snowing. The midwife had a number of calls to make that morning but as she threw back the eiderdown to make room for my ...Read more

A memory of South Ockendon by ceking

How lucky I was to be able to spend many holidays from age 11 at Walsh Manor with the fantastic family the Hemmens. Then Walsh was just a struggling farm, complete with Dolly the very large cart horse, out buildings ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough by macssmith38

My sister, Paula, and I lived in Blackheath. Early in the 60s every Satuday we were lucky enough to have our father take us to Mottingham Riding School. I remember the first ponies we rode - little fat Squibs, Brownie and later ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham by denisecook

Late 1940s I used to visit with my mother the Dingle cafe. I remember the 2 paths down from themain road.The first one took you down into the village but the 2ndone brought you out into a large lawn covered area wher ther was a white ...Read more

A memory of Lymm by jcapper6j

I would like to dedicate this story to The Memory of my Mum Elsie Merridew nee Gooch,who often told us this story of how her dad died while out fishing during WW2,we as young children never took much notice ...Read more

A memory of Barbican by shirleysummers