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I have just been going through a case of my grandparents' photos and I see they lived at 2 Model Cottages - their names were Henry and Harriett Plume and they had three sons, Henry, George and Norman, the latter being my dad who is ...Read more

A memory of Swanley by Penny Fordham

I was born in Exmouth Road in 1945., Growing up in Grays was lovely, we had everything, no need to go far for anything, even shellfish was delivered on a barrow on Saturdays by Mr Going who also had a stall in the ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Patricia Gaywood

This is the stretch of the Parade past the Donkey Stand and Balcony House, the Copper Grill restaurant is in sight before Little Lane at the side of the famous Nicholl's ice cream shop. The Copper Grill is now some kind of tandoori, I'm ...Read more

A memory of Parkgate in 1980 by Stuart Hill

My dad John lived in Broomhill and married my mother Evelyn Crackett from Amble in 1947. I don't now anything about my dad's family other than his mother who's name i don't know died in1958 and he had a sister, Mary Stewart, still living ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1947 by Maureen Burton

The person on the right, on the pier, is myself, Ron Stokes. As I wrote in my memory previous, I worked on Beachley and Aust Piers, weekends, school holidays, until I joined the merchant navy in 1958. If you wish to know the history of ...Read more

A memory of Beachley in 1955 by Ronald Stokes

1959. My family and I stayed at Grandmother's house in Seabrook. I was 7. We lived there while Dad was waiting for his next military post. We rode on the light railway often and I remember being enchanted. I thought the idea that some ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1959 by David Robbins

I was in a hospital called Highwood Hospital, in Ingrave Road. It was for children who had TB. I remember lots of friends there, the girls were separated from the boys. We had open air wards where we ...Read more

A memory of Brentwood in 1953 by Joan Saville

I was born here in 1949, then both my children. The first in 1967 and the next in 1971. The maternity unit was around to the left in a seperate building. They were very strict about visiting times etc. The staff were great ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1967 by Terry Herring

Thousands of teenage boys would have spent their formative years at William Baker Technical School which was housed in the historic mansion of Goldings in the village of Waterford. In 1922 around 240 boys and staff marched from Stepney ...Read more

A memory of Waterford in 1967 by J Parsons

First a little bit of history. There is a double cottage on Thurgoland Bank overlooking Cheesebottom, it was built by my Great Grandfather John Tufft around 1880. He was a Shingler at Wortley Lower Forge, having moved ...Read more

A memory of Thurgoland in 1957 by Roger Tufft