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My parents bought the shop and house in the foreground in 1980. You could just see a 'Hobbs' sign painted on the front of the building and Mr L E Hayward had a toy and pram shop there which he had run since ...Read more

A memory of Wimborne Minster by Paul Angel

I too found this site by accident. My great-grandfather John Dixon was the manager of Webbs Brewery in the 1920s, where my grandfather John Dixon jnr (Jack) was brewer. John Dixon lived in the brewery house known as Brondeg and ...Read more

A memory of Aberbeeg in 1920

Our family, living in India at the time, decided to travel to England for the Queens Coronation in 1953. We stayed in Wedmore for two months, in what was known as The Elmset Hall Hotel. It was a fun time for a small boy, me. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Wedmore in 1953 by Jonathan Manley

The photo was taken from the railway bridge and the new dual carriageway was only a year or two old. Round to the right opposite Deepdene Garage was Fairfield Drive and what a lovely area it was to be growing up in. We lived ...Read more

A memory of Dorking by Philip Ross

My gran came from Leasingthorne, moving to Cambridge in the late 1920s. She had a sister named Mary who lived in an end of terrace house near a corrugated tin 'social club', chickens were kept opposite. l can remember an Uncle ...Read more

A memory of Leasingthorne in 1960 by Nick Richardson

I was born in Chatham in 1951 and lived there up untill I got married when I was 19. I can remember a pub on Military Road called the Three Brothers, I think. We used to meet there before going to the Dockyard for the weekly ...Read more

A memory of Chatham in 1968 by Jenny Rew

I was a at school as a boarder at Churcher's College from 1945 to 1951. The immediate post war years in England were a time of great hardship and rationing. I remember vividly the bad winter of 1947, when Heath Pond ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield in 1945 by Howard Johnson

I spent most of my childhood in Tarves, my father was James Argo the bank manager. I remember cycling all around the grounds at Haddo House, attending Evensong at the private chapel on a Sunday night. I remember Duthie Webster and the ...Read more

A memory of Tarves by Margaret Chick

My sister and I would visit my grandparents in Cheriton and straight away off we would go up the hills, the trick, when the wind was blowing, was to see how far you could "lay on the wind". Later we would find many rabbits who had ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton in 1950 by Su Knight

The horse and cart in the picture belonged to my husband's uncle, Harry Goodchild. He worked with Len Pennock delivering coal and other goods around Robin Hoods Bay and Fylingthorpe. The delivery business ...Read more

A memory of Robin Hood's Bay in 1955 by Lynda Eastwood