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Here in Helperby we have hosted a great Hidden Gardens every July. And this year it will be even better. Last year was great , the weather hot and the strawberrys were very tasty. But we wanted to share more of Helperby with everyone. so ...Read more

A memory of Helperby in 2007 by Helen Jarvis

I had a wonderful week's holiday based at the Bay Hotel in the first week of August 1968, when I was eleven, with my godfather and his wife. Got slightly tiddly one night on shandy: played Rummy for the first time: roamed all over Anglesey ...Read more

A memory of Rhosneigr in 1968 by Jonathan Hutchins

My mother's ancestors all seemed to live in Abingdon and the surrounding villages of Launton, Kiddlington, Bicester, Charlbury etc. and I am collecting photographic records of these families and ...Read more

A memory of Abingdon-on-Thames in 1860 by Yoga Prakash Saraswati

I was born in 1950 and attended the convent as a boarder, leaving in 1958. I travelled by train with my mother from New Street station Birmingham to Paddington station London where the convent nuns met up with us and the ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1958 by Alan Yardley

I attended Warnham Court when it was a school.  It remained a very good school right through to the 1990s when it was closed and revamped in a rather horrid way and sold off as individual flats.. some houses ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School by Stephen Bowden

My forebears came from the village of Harpford. In the Tithe schedule of 1839 Joel Carter rented the small cottage in the centre of the photo and also the cottage on the far right (which had a workshop at the back.) Joel was ...Read more

A memory of Harpford by Anne Speight

This is a photo of Earls Barton Church in 1965, just two years after Susan Ford of Earls Barton married David Tall of Wellingborough 21 Sept 1963.

A memory of Earls Barton in 1963 by David Tall

MY TWO DAUGHTERS ELSIE AND EUNICE AND THEIR FRIEND MARY YOUNG ARE THE CHILDREN ON THIS PHOTOGRAPH.  THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN ON THE 'LITTLE SHORE' AND THEY WERE TRYING TO KEEP THE INCOMING TIDE OUT OF THEIR SANDCASTLE.  THEY ALL HAVE GROWN UP ...Read more

A memory of Amble in 1965 by David Barclay

I just love this photo because my gran was born here in the 1890s.  She was Elizabeth Ann Barwick (nee French) and she also, when married, lived just around the corner at Southern Wood Farm, Malmsmead.  Wonderful lady.

A memory of Malmsmead in 1900 by Keith Butcher

My mother has a copy of this photo on her wall. She remembers a photographer asking to take the photo and then sent them a copy that was printed as a postcard (She still has the original card which I enlarged and printed for ...Read more

A memory of Rustington by Dave Turnbull