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I used to live in the little cottages at the bottom of Chequers Lane. 7 of us in a 2 up 2 down, outside loo - no bathroom. There was a ditch running all along the back of the cottages and all us children had hours of fun playing there ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1953

Our family used to travel from London to a cottage called Redlon in Great Wratting for our childhood holidays during the 1950s. It was owned by the Cummings sisters and their mother. We looked after their Siamese cats ...Read more

A memory of Great Wratting in 1950 by Elizabeth Heap Talvela

My Grandfather, John William Linge, and my Great-Grandfather, John Linge, lived at Wilson's New Cottage, Althorne in 1881. I have no idea where this cottage was situated and wonder whether anyone could help in locating it, please.

A memory of Paglesham Churchend in 1880 by Joyce Newton

One of three sons, Peter Came a local historian and former pupil of Danbury Infants and Juniors School who later became a teacher at Maldon School wrote extensively about the village in preparation for a book which ...Read more

A memory of Danbury in 1950

My parents bought the shop in 1976. I have very fond memories of living in the village throughout the 70's and 80's. Unfortunately the rise of the supermarkets forced it's closure in the 1980's so we converted the shop into the cottage that is there today, I did live in it for a short while.

A memory of Cholderton in 1976 by Nigel Turner

Yes, I remember it well and went in almost daily. During the war, around 1941, we went to live at 56 Albion Road, an old cottage for Millholme and Holmes farm, it was condemned and since demolished. It was just below Cordingley and ...Read more

A memory of Idle

Mum and Dad (Charlie and Annie Ruddick) lived at 5 Malt cottages (opposite The Anchor)from the mid sixties.I spent many a long and happy day in the summer with a bag of sandwiches and a bottle of squash at my ...Read more

A memory of North Warnborough in 1962 by Moira Anderson

Manchester the war.... then to Blackpool. And into Red Rose Cottage in 1950, Grandmare how she held us all together, what a lady Nellie Booth was her name... We started off with eight of us living in the cottage, and we ...Read more

A memory of Staining in 1950

We lived in 6 Promontory Terrace, which was on the border of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay, that was 1950 a time when the Fishermen's Cottages were just around the corner and we would have their Dressed Crab or the Wilecks as we ...Read more

A memory of Cullercoats by arnoldlee44

We moved to the outskirts of Southam in 1963 a small Town then. Walking to the shops where the highlighs of the day, my babies where born here delivered by the local midwife who just lived a few doors away. Pushing the pram down Abby Lane, ...Read more

A memory of Southam by trudyward999