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My family, aunt, uncles, mum, dad, grandparents and cousins spent many good times at the Bat and Ball. Nana & Grampy lived at Arfonia on the Green and all cousins would congregate there and spend the weekends. Lovely ...Read more

A memory of Churchdown by Jane Risbey

Our parents bought Little thatch in the 1970's as a weekend cottage, and we loved it. One night, staying there with my husband, we heard a rapping on the front door. The time was very late pm, and we ...Read more

A memory of Ogbourne St Andrew in 1982 by Catherine Mackenzie

My grandparents used to run the Post Office at Carthew, I remember my Dad telling me that's where he grew up, but my earliest memories are of my grandparents living just down the road from there in Charlestown in a lovely ...Read more

A memory of Carthew in 1952

My Grandfather came from Milverton and lived at a cottage called Butts Way and he is buried in the churchyard with other members of his family. He was William Moore who died in 1920. His daughter, my aunt, spent her honeymoon ...Read more

A memory of Milverton in 1952 by Linda Carding

I accessed this print because it is a picture of my 'Aunt and Uncle's' shop which we stayed in on many happy occasions. My mother was cousin to Mrs Cooper but, as is often the case with village people, they were very close and ...Read more

A memory of Oakley by Stephanie Smithson

I was born at the Bearstead Memorial Hospital in 1946 and lived on Hurstfield Road for my first 5 years, then moved to Weston Avenue. That house backed on to Hurst Park racecourse and I used to love to look over the fence to see ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey in 1950 by Alison Collin

Memories of bringing up three daughters in the stables nest door to this house, as my husband worked in the stables under Dick Hern. Going on lovely picnics with the children and their friends in the summer within the ...Read more

A memory of West Ilsley in 1971

When I was a teenager, staying with my aunt, she took me for a drive through Pleasley Vale and told me that her grandmother, Jane Sanderson, was born in one of the terraced cottages by the Mill. I recently went exploring to show my ...Read more

A memory of Pleasleyhill by Julia Waller

In the 40's and early 50's the Goodland family lived in one of the pair; with their son Norman, and during the war a boy called, I think, John Hunt lived in the other. No relation to the Hunt family who ran the Post Office and shop, and ...Read more

A memory of Chilbolton by Colin Johnson

I lived in Horton from the age of two when we moved from Chard. We lived in a cottage just below the village hall opposite the Police house. My dad was Joe Sparks, and my mum was Joyce, I had an elder sister ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1955 by Pat Sparks