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A St Marychurch boy, I lived at Hampton Farm Cottage, St Marychurch... and I can still smell the tar and the salt from old fisher and other boats pulled up on Oddicombe beach... and I can still feel the beautiful shining ...Read more

A memory of Oddicombe Beach in 1940 by Frederick Watson

Started by the Moon family; anyone know the reason for the "Aberdeen"? The steam whistle blew at 8am amd again at 5pm. They had a couple of (old fashioned then) Albion lorries. My father used to wear the old fashioned stiff white ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey by Melville Grigg

Joe and Elsie Boyd had a house built in California, which is a road in Winlaton. At that time California was a mud track and it never did become California Road or Lane or ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1930

The Mechanics Institute Library in Epworth is still in operation as a lending library. The Library also holds a wealth of information relating to the Isle of Axholme where Epworth is located. Local history books, ...Read more

A memory of Epworth in 2013 by Christine Pledger

I Lived in Bulford Camp from 1942 - 1958 and attended Wing School. The street the school was on was Bond St. A street of terraced corrigated iron houses, inhabited by civillian workers. My family and I returned in 1989 ...Read more

A memory of Bulford in 1958 by Brian Williams

I lived in one of the cottages at bottom of the castle; it was my playground. My brothers and I would run around the top of the wall. The farmer just up past the Castle and us were friends. There was a gate at bottom of the hill and we would get tips for opening and closing the gate.

A memory of Kilmartin in 1964 by David Campbell/Tinman

I lived in South Warnborough 1968-74 at 'Thatch End' and latterly The Old Parsonage. Both were on Lees Hill. From here I was collected and went to school in Alton. My sister attended Long Sutton Primary. Her headmaster was ...Read more

A memory of South Warnborough in 1968 by James Pratt

I worked in the ticket office at the railway station from about 1959 until about 1962. The taxi drivers would come in for tea and W.H.Smiths was attached to the building. I was one of the first to move in to the block of ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by James Stapleton

I remember my relatively short time in Wembley with great affection. At my mother's instigation we moved from Willesden to Lonsdale Avenue, Wembley, in 1953 when I was fourteen. My father paid the princely sum of just ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1953 by William (Bill) Rowan

I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop outside ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Derek Jones