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Although I come from a professional musical family my father was a career naval officer so perhaps it was not surprising I was sent to Stubbington. Arriving as a boarder aged seven in 1946 was quite a ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington in 1946 by Barry Sterndale Bennett

I remember that the eastern part of the park was turned into allotments during the war. And a water-filled ditch was created for testing tanks' abilities to cross muddy/hilly terrain. And after the war there were often ...Read more

A memory of Brighton by colinoyoung1

I was brought up in the white cottage mid-left, by the roadside, by my grandparents. The Crown Inn at the middle of the picture in the distance was run by Jim and Winnie Tuer, and I was friends with their daughter Ruth. The ...Read more

A memory of Ainstable in 1949 by Kate Walker

I used to camp as a child and teenager at Crosswater down the road [my father knew the then owner] and one of my memories is of driving past the hotel en-route from Farnham. I stayed here as a birthday treat in 2003 and went on ...Read more

A memory of Churt in 2005 by Richard Clark

My mother was born in Churt and grew up at Number Four Sandy Lane. She worked for a time at the Pride of the Valley during the war and lived upstairs in one of the rooms. While working at the Pride, she met and later married a Canadian ...Read more

A memory of Churt by rlangner

The chapel shown on the right of the photo was the Primitive Methodist Chapel, which I attended as a child. The highlight of the year was the Sunday School Anniversary with Mr Kellington conducting the singing and ...Read more

A memory of Misterton by Joan Norton (Burn)

Please can anyone help me, I'm looking for photos of primrose Valley in the 70s onwards, as a child I spent my holidays there and came across some great friends I'm 52 now, it would be really nice to hear from anyone who went there the ...Read more

A memory of Filey by andrew-smart15

When this photo was taken my grandfather Horace Smart was running this shop. I was living in the flat above the shop with my parents and brother Ralph. We enjoyed living here and having the whole of the valley to play ...Read more

A memory of Filey in 1955 by Rose Hollis

I lived for a very short time with my gran in Liverpool 8, now infamously Toxteth. She lived in two flats on Parkway off Princess Parkway. She was a nurse and walked to the hospital so it must have been nearby. Think it was near Granby ...Read more

A memory of Toxteth by jdb_jacqueline

This view has hardly changed, I have recently took a photo from about the same place and it is almost the same. The wall running in front of the church as gone now but the park on the left and the school wall on the right is still ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1959 by Barbara Whiteman