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Hi, I was born in 1952 at Silver Terrace, Southdown, lived there till 1965, went to primary school at Blindwell Hill. I still have relatives living there, lots of older relatives buried there. Great memories of long summers wandering ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook in 1952 by Stephen Mewton

I was born in Epsom and lived in Belmont all my childhood. I attended Cotswold Road Primary School and also the Sunday School that was there on a Sunday. The building was knocked down in the 1980s, it was opened in the 1890s and I can ...Read more

A memory of Belmont by Catherine Johnston

My father was killed in the early part of the war, therefore my mum had to go to work and find a nursery placement for me. We lived in Caterham-on-the-Hill and the nearest nursery was Downlands, at Old Coulsdon. I ...Read more

A memory of Old Coulsdon in 1940 by Valerie Woolard

How wonderful to hear of one of my dear friend's memories of 1960s Menith Wood. Although I was actually born at "Eardiston" Farm called Moor Farm, in one of the converted barns in 1949, I spent all ...Read more

A memory of Menithwood in 1960 by Nicolas Fumarola

My mum and I were evacuated to Ingleton during WWII from Wallasey in the Wirral, after we had been bombed out. We lived at 129 New Village and when we went back to Wallasey after the end of the war, my Grandparents, Mr and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Ingleton by Brian Corbett

A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm »    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, when ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall in 1930 by John Mellor

If anyone were to ask me when I was most happy, I would have to go back some considerable time to those years spent in Wheatley Hill, more especially the late 1940s all of the 1950s and early 1960s. Truly magical times, ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1954 by Frank Dinsdale

The Oxleys. Deep in the Worcestershire countryside…at the foot of Clows Top hill, Lies the house called the Oxleys…a once sweet antidote to life’s bitter pill. The family home of the Keegan’s…where visitors ...Read more

A memory of Clows Top in 1971 by Stephen Parry

This is the Peart family. Amelia the eldest aged 17 holds her baby brother George. Next to her on the rock is Robert Leadley Peart and at her side is Robert's twin Matthew. Next to Matthew is Jane (known as Ginny) and then Tom. Ginny ...Read more

A memory of Whitby by Claire Allen

I have never heard of this person, although he makes reference to some people, and places in Colden Common I knew. So if anyone who knows him ever comes across this then I have been some help! COLDEN COMMON? Oh, yes - ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common by Bert Catt