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Is there anyone reading this with memories of Barry Island in 1955? I am writing a book and two of my characters stay in a holiday cottage late summer of that year. Where can you suggest would be an area at that time ...Read more

A memory of Barry Island in 1955 by Noel Bennett

My name is Bill Maundrill, brother of Brian, I was born in 1941 in the Firs Cottage and went to Farrington School. Tony Brimble lived next door and his father kept pigeons, Phillip Payne and John, Ducky Rogers, ...Read more

A memory of Farrington Gurney by william.maundrill

I wasn't born there but the years I spent in Rumford were some of my happiest. We moved there in 1960, my parents bought a house in the very centre of the village which also had a grocery shop attached. It turned out that ...Read more

A memory of Rumford by Barbara Fisher

where on earth do I start, well lets have a bash, do remember when you were a small child. and the staff, ie sisters, the principal, his deputy, the carpenter,the gardener, the matron in ...Read more

A memory of Bramhope by Ronald Ellington Tully

I've just received an e-mail from Ray Cooke today 29/2/2016, i have been in touch with him before and we did remember more or less the same things and people in the home, so after his e-mail i decided to have another look at this site, it ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle by Stephen Gilbride

I was born in West Common Road in an old cottage next door to my grandfathers' shop in 1940,Sadly the shop was bombed in the war and was then moved to Hayes Lane. It was Hayes Stores, which my father took over when my granddad ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by gillian4026

Memories Remembered After reading Brian Keighley’s story of his memories in Lifton, my memories came flooding back and has prompted me to recall a few of my own. I was born in Lifton 18 months after my sister Jean in 1927 at Rock ...Read more

A memory of Lifton by geoffbailey29

An uncle, Arthur Garside owned a chemists in Freshwater following his service in the Royal Artillery during World War Two. He made Turkish Delight and would bring one or two trays of lemon and rose flavor when he visited us in Bedfordshire ...Read more

A memory of Freshwater by ducatee

Ellen Laura (Ibbett, Clack, Hodgson) Preston, arrived from Canada and recorded: My sister Jessie and brother Lawrence met me for lunch in London and looked up my sister's train for Selsey, Sussex, with whom I was ...Read more

A memory of Selsey by rosemaryabram

My name is Alan Mudge, cousin of Valerie Mudge, her father Doll (Arthur) was one of my Dad's brothers.I was born on 15th. Sept. 1940 at The Shant, Grain Road, Lower Stoke, later, in 1948 moving to 12 Windmill Cottages. I went to school ...Read more

A memory of Lower Stoke by Alan Mudge