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I was born in The Burn, Burrow Lane, Newton Poppleford in 1945. My parents were William Francis George Drake (George) and Dora May Drake nee Shobrook. My brother David Andrew Drake was born in 1942. We ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford by Rosemary Forslin

I was born in Butleigh Hospital near Somerton in 1968 and lived in Somerton from then until 1990. My Grandparents Ted and Elsie used to be the landlord and landlady of the Globe Inn. In 1974 my Granfer passed away and my nan moved to ...Read more

A memory of Salford by andrewkirby495

My name is Lyndon Evans, I was born in 1941 in the Police station during the war, my brother Stuart was also born in the station in 1938. My dad was constable Ted Evans PC1234 he was one of 4 officers based in Tottington ...Read more

A memory of Tottington by throstlefarm

My father was born "on the road to Queensbury", as I was told. He grew up in the Queensbury/Mountain/Bradford area and I have ties to those places still. Dad came to the U.S.A. in 1927 and lived with an aunt who had come earlier. I ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury by andersoncynthea73

I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more

A memory of Beckington by patwalker37srpen

The following is taken from my mother's memoirs and the time period Winifred would have worked at the Lodge was between 1929-1932. Her mother, Ann Pamela Myring (b 1887), is described as a 'Housemaid Domestic' in the 1911 ...Read more

A memory of Shenstone Lodge School by hilary.tait

Diary of a Toe Rag is all about my early life from Harlesden in the 1950s through to a new life in Hemel Hempstead. Check it out on Google, but here's the synopsis: More than 28,000 ...Read more

A memory of Harlesden by steveriches

One year, for Ascension Day, a curate at St.Luke's decided that we, the choirboys, should ascend the church tower and sing appropriate hymns. (Was it the Rev. Pollett?) All of us lads dutifully made our way, fully robed in cassocks, ruffs ...Read more

A memory of Cannock by brucehaycock

My father Eric Martin was a teacher at Burrowhill in the fifties where he met and married my mother Evelyn Stones, who worked as a cook at the school. At the time Mr. Rees was the headmaster, I remember Mr. Jarman, and Jess ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green by tonymartinnorfolk

I also remember this tower as my Great grandmother, Elizabeth Welham lived under the tower when I was a boy. This would be in the late 1940's/ 1950's. The door to her rooms was just inside the archway and you would take one step ...Read more

A memory of Great Yarmouth by loopyju8