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My mother-in-law was Edith Winnifred Clarke (known as Winn), born in Guiseley in 1916 and whose family, the Morrells ran the Guiseley Post Office from the late 1800s. She ...Read more

A memory of Guiseley by Teresa Green

Neat gardens of squares of box hedging kept very small and neat, both sides of the path from the road to shop, these squares full of striking displays of red and yellow flowers changing with the seasons, ...Read more

A memory of Tantobie

We moved from Bexley Village to Barnehurst in 1971 when I was four years old. I grew up with my sister and two brothers on Eastleigh Road where all the children used to come out ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst by reunsie

This is Corby Town Centre as I will always remember it. Long before the pedestrianization of Corporation Street, and long before a new building on Market Square obliterated the social heartland of the town! This was a town centre that ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Kenneth Kerr

how things have changed in old days you would be able to leave your back door open for people to pop in have cup of tea, as my mum then child would say. her dad was down in mines digging for coal . then when the national service came ...Read more

A memory of Tredegar by Janet Ingate

I was a boarder at Kingsley School. I clearly recall our "crocodile" to church every Sunday, the Sunday story time whilst we continued our "hobby" ( I really do not know how they would have coped with a singing hobby!). We ...Read more

A memory of Horley by pamela.fabianska

I have posted on this interesting sight in the past - back in May 2009. I was talking recently about Staverton House in Lower Common with a friend, another former Eversley-ite, as we both had a Saturday job there ...Read more

A memory of Eversley by Giles Myhill

100 years to the date 11.10.1915-11.10.2015 William Clarke (DOB about 1874) Eliza Ann Street,Patricroft Wife, Mary Hanna (nee Edwards DOB about 1871) six children. Employed, Naysmyth and Wilson, Bridgewater Foundry, Patricoft as ...Read more

A memory of Eccles by albert.clarke2

My grandparents Ben and Margaret Hiller had the Jolly Gardeners pub on York Road. I cannot find any record of it or any person that remembers it. I was born in 1966 and can remember it vividly, also the distintive smell from the ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

Hello I am researching my family tree and have close ties and very fond memories of Borth y gest. My grandmother lived at Terfyn in Mersey Street for many years along with my mother aunt and uncle's. My mother ...Read more

A memory of Borth-y-Gest by harleyjayne1200