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My first introduction to Fairbourne I think was in 1953 (the same week that we heard that Everest had been conquered and the Coronation). As a child resident of St Christopher's Railway Orphanage in Derby, we went camping for the first time ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne by Peter Studden

I was10 years old and as I got out of the removal van I cried, I wanted to go back to London. My parents showed me our house it was the first time I had my own bedroom. We lived in Dagnam Park Drive right near Gooshays ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill in 1951 by Brenda Dreyer

My elderly mother has been telling me how her first house was in a row of cottages she thinks was called Halfway Cottages, on the corner of Terling Road and Witham Road on the way to Terling. This was her first ...Read more

A memory of Terling in 1947 by Susan Seymour

Not so much a memory - more an update! Since Mrs Barkway sold the hotel business, the property was split into dwellings and 6 years ago my husband and I bought Swan House, the building on the far left with the ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe St Andrew in 2013 by Phyllida Scrivens

I remember Hollybrook Guesthouse well from my childhood as I lived with my parents at Hill Top, Westwood Road, which at the time was a Children's home for boys from "broken homes". I spent many happy hours with Mary ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1958 by Janet Parker

I think about 1955, when I was living in St Pauls Cray on the main road by Hearns Rise, there was a lady who always wore a brown coat and used to spend most of the day walking up and down in front of Orchard ...Read more

A memory of St Paul's Cray in 1955 by Derek Stocker

I lived at Long House Children's Home. I remember running away one night with a bunch of the other kids and taken back by the police about midnight because we had decided to try and find food, McDonalds. I loved my ...Read more

A memory of Long Hanborough in 1985 by Sonia Nestor

I spent many very happy holidays at my uncle's house, number 8 Beach Street directly behind the pub in the photo. It was an old house with very steep stairs with large ropes instead of handrails. It had no electricity although gas was fitted ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1954 by Anthony Lock

In the summer of 1952 I learnt that my parents had decided to move from our home in the Midlands to the West Country as my father wished to return to where his relatives lived. It came as no surprise therefore, when one day they ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1952

I was born in Hawkhurst at some ungodly hour on October 5th, 1949 at the Little Fowler's nursing home, which is why I probably inherited some of its smuggling influence! At that time my parents were ...Read more

A memory of Iden Green by Paul O'donovan