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Our granddaughter Anna Norfolk stays with us each Tuesday and Friday starting with breakfast and we try to keep her entertained with things to do around our home town of ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born in 1942 and spent my childhood years living in the Way Road area of the city.  My brother and I were lucky enough to have a family living directly behind us in Homefield Avenue (I think that is what it was called) - there ...Read more

A memory of Leicester by Susan Bailey

This was the town I grew up in until I was 8.  There is one day that stands out in my mind.  My mother had been informed that the local fruiterer had oranges. His location was about half a mile from our house.  England was still ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1949 by Raymond Garfield

We used to visit Leigh-on-Sea by train from Dagenham on a Sunday. After a stop at the cockle sheds for refreshment and for us children to see the process of the boiling of the shellfish, we would then walk along the seafront as ...Read more

A memory of Leigh-on-Sea in 1950 by Eileen Hammond

As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by Neville Robinson

In the early 1940s I went to Manor House School. It was run by Dr and Mrs Wallace, and occupied the former Rectory in South Street (the site is now covered by a housing estate and the motorway to Portsmouth). Some of the ...Read more

A memory of Havant in 1942 by Barry Mahony

Hi I am from New Zealand and from information I have my ancestors came from Semer the male name is johnson and the Female maiden name was Cuthbert, the only info I have indicates that they lived there in the mid 1700's i would be ...Read more

A memory of Semer by Don Johnson

I was born in Longton in 1933 at 151 High Street Post Office, Longton. All my childhood was spent there with my grandmother, Sarah Wright and my great aunt Matilda Ward (my grandmother's sister). Between them ...Read more

A memory of Longton by Barbara Johnson

Mrs.Ball at the Post Office. Westlecot House (now March House) with the Hayward-Jones family. Imo H-J and self at fete at the Manor house dressed as Shah of Persia and Aga Khan. Old Mrs.Ollie home help/cleaner. Pony ...Read more

A memory of Ogbourne St George in 1940 by Liz Derbyshire

I was born and bred in Gravesend. This photo brings back many memories of summer days down the prom! We always came here with my mum. She used to leave us and our cousins in the park behind the cafe whilst they went shopping in town. We ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1969 by Trudie Grant