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Born and bred in Kerswell along with my 3 sisters and brother we were (are) the Nelson family of Carswells. Our mum Joan moved to Kerswell at the age of 3 months and was brought up in the bungalow of Resthaven on the ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1959 by Jan Vian

I don't have a memory but some of our family lived there around 1950 pre and onwards. The Tomlinsons, Peggy and Burt, maybe Peggy's sisters and brother John and their mother who I believe was a Collins. Hoare is another surname. If ...Read more

A memory of Perivale by Helen Acott

I remember being quite excited when Mum (Jessie Beattie} and I would take the bus from Blantyre to Glasgow and then another to Lennoxton to visit my father's sister Mary Richmond {nee Blair} and my 3 cousins Jean, Claude and Samuel. ...Read more

A memory of Twechar in 1956 by Marion Anderson

I returned 2 years ago and found an old recluse who remembered the folks, but the village is still recognisable. Every Good Friday it was a ritual to leave Noss Mayo in Devon early in the morning down to a little ...Read more

A memory of St Tudy in 1930 by John Hockaday

My name is Vivienne. I was born in Yeovil in December 1953. My father was Graham Stanley George Adams born March 1926. He had four brothers: Stewart Roland Adams (Married Phyllis), Maurice Escort Adams (Married Jean Hallett, ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1957 by Vivienne Moss

I attended Fairfields "school", and I use that term loosely, in the early 1960s. I have nothing but bad memories that have haunted me for 50 years! The only pleasurable memory I have of the school is hearing a new singing band ...Read more

A memory of Basingstoke in 1964 by Barry Elton

Hello, I now live in Co. Waterford. I gave my name as I was known in 1949. I lived with my Gran - Annie Evans - & Grandad Will at 26 Bryn Terrace, almost at the top. Grandad was a miner (he went underground at 11 years of age) ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1950

The lovely Thomas family took me in as an evacuee during the war years, they had a daughter, Myra or similar. Sundays were special, we visited grandparents up on a hill. Moria C.M. Sunday School presented me with a ...Read more

A memory of Kenfig Hill in 1945 by Lilian Haslehurst (Fry)

I lived at 42, Woodlea Drive from the age of 9 until 18 when we moved in 1963. My dad bought the plot and we used to visit it regularly until the house was completed, and we moved in. Our house was at the top of the hill ...Read more

A memory of Bromley in 1954 by Nigel Hurley

I moved to Stubbington as a 6 year old to the Red Lion Estate. My father like so many  on that estate was in the Royal Navy based at Portsmouth. I remember Foster's school and especially the daffodils by the fence ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by Lorraine Emery