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Every year my family would travel to Cwmllynfell for our summer holidays. We went to visit family there (Morgan Morgan of Harries road) I remember the freedom of playing out, making bows and arrows and exploring. We always had to visit ...Read more

A memory of Cwmllynfell by Joyce Morgan

I lived in Kemsley until 1970 when I left to get married. All the kids from the village played rounders and cricket together. We always built a huge bonfire for Guy Fawkes Night but it always got burned down, we always blamed one ...Read more

A memory of Kemsley in 1963 by Sylvia Webster

My family and I stayed in the old vicarage in Westfield in the 70's with Robert Wright and his family, we had such lovely times and we loved the old house - does anybody remember the family or going into the house? If so, I'd love to hear from you!

A memory of Westfield by Tracy Bourke

From 1935 to 1941 I was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Crediton, travelling every day by train from Morchard Road Station, leaving home at ten minutes past eight to board the eight thirty train ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

I was fortunate to be at Loddiswell Primary school in the last few years of the reign of Ms Christian Michell and Ms Margaret Common, in the late 60s. In these days the summers were always very hot, and winters very cold ...Read more

A memory of Loddiswell by Mr Sosgez

It's not an actual memory, but my grandad, Tom Gurney, used to fetch me from the nursery, put me on his shoulders and take back to the house up at Heol Isaf. I have many fond memories from home, I was a bit of a rat bag when younger, but my ...Read more

A memory of Brynmawr in 1968 by Simon Johannis

I remember talk about my grandma May who worked at Harewood House about 1918-19, she became pregnant with my father who was born in 1920. She was banished from the House, forbidden ever to reveal the father's name.  i often wonder who my grandfather was!

A memory of Harewood in 1910 by Maureen Goy Nee Mead

Born and bred in Kerswell along with my 3 sisters and brother we were (are) the Nelson family of Carswells. Our mum Joan moved to Kerswell at the age of 3 months and was brought up in the bungalow of Resthaven on the ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1959 by Jan Vian

Hi, I would love to hear from anyone that may have memories of Yorkletts in the late 1960s. I used to spend a lot of time in the village, spending all my school hols with my gran who lived in a bungalow ...Read more

A memory of Yorkletts in 1968 by Sharon Searle

I grew up in Epping, living next door to an old lady, Ann Young (nee Shakespeare), who lived in a bungalow her husband built on Bower Hill crica the 1920/30s. She had lived in Epping all her life. Her ...Read more

A memory of Epping in 1910