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I was born in Windsors Street, Collyhurst in 1950. I went to St Oswald's School and also walked with St James Sunday School. I remember Pop Henson, he married my mam & dad. I remember the docs Davey, Duguid and ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by June Major

Hi Linda, Not sure how my tree links in with yours but I am also descended from a Davis family that I have traced back to Inkberrow. So far I have gone back to a John Davis born 1808, who was a farmer working on Priory ...Read more

A memory of Feckenham by Sam Davis

I believe that my Great Grandfather, Henry Herbert Ward had a Blacksmith's business in Markyate in the 30's / 40's. My Grandfathers name was Ernest Ward born 1910 and I believe he had a ...Read more

A memory of Markyate by Annette Ward

Hi, I was born in Wouldham, 3 Castle Street, in 1946 and my family moved away in 1949 but I had a memory of the house that stayed with me all my life. The memory is of a tree in the garden that had a swing that my dad used to push ...Read more

A memory of Wouldham by Kathy J Ordan

I was born in Nant Gwynant in 1925 and lived there for the first 20 years of my life. In 1944 I was drafted into the army and served in German and Italy. Upon release in 1947, I decided to try and make a career in agriculture ...Read more

A memory of Nantgwynant by Gwilym Evans

I moved into Avon Carrow in the Spring of 1970. I was stationed at RAF Croughton but moved my family to this small village in Warwickshire because that life was what we were used to, coming from the small ...Read more

A memory of Avon Dassett by Don Colley

I was born in Redhill hospital in 1948 and lived in Shirley Avenue. I went to Downland School which was a stone cottage called Pound Cottage just before Stanley Close. There was Cherry Tree Cottage about 3 doors up, they used to sell ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon by Margaret Collins

Mrs Sarah Norris, born Berwick, died in 1852 at Great Mongeham. Although she was a pauper, she had lived to a grand old age of 85 and was kept out of the workhouse by her daughter Mary, who cared for her and did the ...Read more

A memory of Great Mongeham

George James Norris and his wife Charlotte, nee Halliday, lived at Alders, Sholden with their 5 children in 1891. Miss Sarah Norrice who was living with her mother Ursula at Sholden in ...Read more

A memory of Deal

My memories span many years. My grandparents lived in the small terrace cottages adjacent to the pub and next door but one to the Pennys. My grandmother, Eva Morgan looked after the chapel. My Uncle Bob used to live in the ...Read more

A memory of Manmoel by Gillian Edmunds