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In the late 50.s we lived at park farm Colliers Green. I had a sunday job working for"dinks" (that was his nickname) At the service station on the Cranbrook Road. I and my brother Roger went to Colliers Green primary. I ...Read more

A memory of Goudhurst by freremike

In 1970-72 I worked for a man in Sydney, Australia who told me that his Great-Grand-Mother came from the Isle of Wight, and that is all that he knew of his 'roots'. In 2015 I said that I would try and find some more ...Read more

A memory of Binstead by Mr. Gerald Rickwood

We moved to Swindon in 1957 from London (Wimbledon, actually) when my dad, a skilled engineer, got a job at Vickers Armstrongs at South Marston, with a brand new council house thrown in. In those post-war austerity days there was no ...Read more

A memory of Swindon by besafisher

Hi my grandparents lived in the house where the girl is standing - maybe my mother - I can't tell. There was a terrible fire that took out a lot of those houses and the ones behind. My grandparents lost almost all their belongings and had ...Read more

A memory of Chagford by brenda261238

I moved to Beltinge in 1948 with my parents and we lived at number 8 Churchill Avenue. At that time the avenue was a prefab estate and was a baby boomer child's heaven -,and there were plenty of us. I have many cherished memories of ...Read more

A memory of Beltinge by ned.jetwave

In the 1950s we spent several family holidays in the South Hams, staying at the Dairy in Stoke Fleming. We lived in south west London and travelled overnight on the A30 in my Dad's wet fish van, my brother and I sleepiing on a ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming

The first 8 plus years of my life were spent here at Merrow Down, off the Common. The only time we were away was for a few months in 1939-40 during the Phoney War. I had various nannies, the best being Flora. She came about autumn ...Read more

A memory of Timberscombe in 1940 by John Nurcombe

I was born in Flete House and adopted very soon after. I have a sort of memory of a large wood panelled room filled with cots, there are windows along one side with the sun streaming through. I wonder if that was the nursery ...Read more

A memory of Pamflete Ho in 1952 by Mary Impey

I was 9 years old when I moved with my family to Kirkcudbright. My father worked for Sir Charles Hope Dunbar. We moved into his castle and had a rear section as our home. I am not sure of the date, about 1940 the castle caught ...Read more

A memory of St Mary's Isle in 1940 by James Mc Givern

In Bonnie Scotland The road back to Campsie Glen Is a forty-year long tunnel of mist! Dug deep into the cut bedrock of memory, And neatly knitted in the multi-storey labyrinth Of pouring passions, in pounding poems!! ...Read more

A memory of Campsie Glen in 1965 by Dr. Feisal Esmael