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I was born in 1940 and my grandparents lived at 10 Queen Alexandra Hospital which was in a row of terraced cottages, just above the main part of the hospital. My grandfather worked there, I think on the nursing side. The ...Read more

A memory of Cosham

I was born in Haddington and spent the first couple of years of my life in Spott. Mum was Agnes Tear, daughter of Mary Mowatt Tear and sister of Tommy, Jock, Annie, Kate, Nellie, and Molly. Rose Cottage was our home, and i think it is till ...Read more

A memory of Spott

My father Brian Philpott was born in Hartley Wintney in 1933. He had friends whose surname was Ruffle; he was head choirboy at st Johns church til about aged 14, and he left around 1950 toi join the RAF, and my grandparents Rose ...Read more

A memory of Hartley Wintney by klevanskit

During the war I attended Sherwood Boarding School on Church Street and Downs Road. Behind the house was an abandoned and overgrown chalk quarry (The Pit) with an old cottage, our arts and crafts classrooms. The cottage is gone and it is ...Read more

A memory of Epsom by Paul Erland

A St Marychurch boy, I lived at Hampton Farm Cottage, St Marychurch... and I can still smell the tar and the salt from old fisher and other boats pulled up on Oddicombe beach... and I can still feel the beautiful shining ...Read more

A memory of Oddicombe Beach in 1940 by Frederick Watson

I lived in one of the cottages at bottom of the castle; it was my playground. My brothers and I would run around the top of the wall. The farmer just up past the Castle and us were friends. There was a gate at bottom of the hill and we would get tips for opening and closing the gate.

A memory of Kilmartin in 1964 by David Campbell/Tinman

I was born and raised in Belvedere and my father, Frederick Manwaring, was born in Orient Cottages, Norman Road, in 1924. I've been trawling the internet looking for information about his birth place to no avail. ...Read more

A memory of Erith in 1920

I remember the cottages which were very near the road,coming down Eastwood Road from High Street. I regret no photos but remember the last one farthest from the High Street was used as a Cobblers workshop and the buses that ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh in 1940 by Ken Soulsby

Does anyone remember the annual parties for Dr. Barnabas' collectors? There was a party at the Weir hotel and the cardboard cottages were collected with little presents for the best collectors. We managed a threepenny piece every week even in those hard days!

A memory of Thundersley in 1951 by Mary Cotton

My mum took us to Bascote Heath to see Aunt Hilda (nee Markham), she was married to Ted Fox. Aunt Hilda would take us round the woods to pick the primroses and violets and then we would have tea. On one visit Aunt Hilda told us of the ...Read more

A memory of Bascote by Wendy Willoughby