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My family moved from Woking to Tongham in 1942 into Springpond Cottage in Grange Road - a farm worker’s cottage belonging to Ben Ceasar. Dad was a lorry driver delivering the farm’s vegetables. There was only cold running water ...Read more

A memory of Tongham in 1965 by John Reynolds

I was born 6 January 1956 at 4 Lodge Road across from Skellow School on a Friday morning. My parents baptized me Shirley when I was 3 years old at Owston Church, my surname was Brown. My past relatives are buried in ...Read more

A memory of Old Town in 1956 by Shirley Roe

Hello my name is Muriel Minshull, I was born in Whitefield and lived at 1 Statter Street, the two cottages are no longer there. I went to school in Whitefield, my teachers were Miss Cook and Miss Roland, oh she gave ...Read more

A memory of Whitefield in 1951 by Muriel Minshull

I was a boarder at St Peter's Court from the age of 6 to 10. My father worked on the oil fields in Iraq and because of my age we got special permission for me to board during the civil war there. My two eldest brothers, ...Read more

A memory of Bacton in 1957 by Kevin Heath

I, Helen Blake and my sister Carolyn moved with our parents Eileen and Arthur Blake to South Hill Cottages, next door to what was then the Post Office in Downderry run by Mrs Harris. Mrs Harris retired and the post office moved ...Read more

A memory of Downderry in 1954

My mother was born here. My family lived here until I was a teenager even though my father was English. I remember all the village as I went to the village school along with my brother and sister until I moved to high school in ...Read more

A memory of Llanegryn in 1950 by Jennifer O'donohue

My parents bought the White House - a thatched terrace of 6 cottages in the Main Street opposite 'Thatchers' Shop. I believe I only lived in this village for about three years between the age of 7 and 10. The 'White House' had a ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1957 by Martyn Kelham

we lived in public hall cottage at the top of brook street john burrow

A memory of Flimby in 1953 by John Burrow

I was a boarder from 1956 to 1960. It was a boys only school at the time , and there were around 28 boarders from first to sixth form. I belief there were around 240 boys total at the school. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch by Paul Roper

I was brought up in Alderside building, on Biggar Road, there were 24 houses in the building (12 bottom and 12 above). My gran and grandpa lived across the road in Wellwood Cottage. There were loads of ...Read more

A memory of Cleland in 1958 by Wilma Francis