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I was born in Crouch End in 1963 and lived for 22 years of my life in Buckley Court, Carysfort Road, a small block of council flats in quite an exclusive road.  My Grandfather, John Leo Monnington, was relieving officer for the area ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1963 by Lucinda Cotton King

I will continue with some information on the businesses in St Blazey around 1950. Station Road, starting with no. 1. Grigg's the butchers, the house where I was born and the shop run by Jack Grigg. The next business, no.3 Station ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1950 by Melville Grigg

I have always enjoyed walking and exploring so when our family moved to Tiverton in 2006 it wasn't long before Elizabeth and I discovered a local group called "Walk & Talk". The group arranges planned walks almost every ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2007 by John Howard Norfolk

I came to Abergynolwyn in 1962 to work at Tyny-Cornel Hotel with my brother Luis, we were very happy to work for Mr & Mrs Hunter. I'm 66 years old and I remember many times the town and my first love Gwylem ...Read more

A memory of Abergynolwyn in 1962 by Candelas Marie

I was also at Heswall Children's Hospital between 1969 to 1973. I also knew Denise O'Gorman and a few others including Anne Fay. Every couple of yeas I go back and visit the town and my old school in Pensby. I have some very fond memories ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1997 by Bill Ryan

I wonder if anybody remembers Green Hedges. I believe it was a maternity home in 1941 as I was born there. I recently went to back to Ditchling and it is now an old people's home. My mother went to Ditchling during ...Read more

A memory of Ditchling in 1941

Friday the 8th of April, 1984. The day I met the actor Jon Pertwee when he opened the visiting centre in Deri. I arrived around 10.30 am, the weather was dreadfull, raining, typical,..and Jon Pertwee was 90 minutes ...Read more

A memory of Bargoed in 1994 by Andrew Dexter

We - my parents and their five sons - lived at Beaconsmount, a house formerly owned by the Maules and before them, the Staggs. We moved to Ivy Hatch (opposite the 68 bus stop at the Sevenoaks end of the village) ...Read more

A memory of Ightham in 1960 by Brian Parsons

This picture named Redhill Hospital 1908 is in fact the porter's lodge at the main entrance. When I nursed there in the 1970s we all called it "Rose Cottage" as apart from housing the switchboard and the porter's lodge it also housed the ...Read more

A memory of Redhill by Ian Brooker

My parents owned the nursery at Spurstow, (I remember the big oak tree in front of the petrol front on the A49). They were there from 1943 to my father's death in 1951.  Was there a family called 'Prier' (soliciter, doctor) in the ...Read more

A memory of Spurstow in 1943 by Robin Wallis