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I came to Southminster to join the Staff (there were actually just 2 teachers and a headmistress) at the new infants school in 1963. It was a long warm autumn and my husband and I being newly married lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Southminster in 1963 by Patricia Hardy

I remember going to the bakers (Kings), and getting little brown Hovis loaves rolls, then taking them back to Bradwell. I also used to live in a flat at 5, Church Street, 2nd storey, rent in those days was £1 50p a week, it belonged to Muscutt at Thompins, those were the days.

A memory of Wolverton in 1967 by Christine Cobbold

My Nan and Grandad used to live in a bungalow on Bacons Chase. I can remember leapfrogging over these mushroom looking concrete things that lined the road to the Bacon Farm/House. Back in those old days I still remember the ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell on Sea in 1970 by Ann Mc Gaw

We Joined Bradwell Bowling Club after I couldn't walk properly owing to a bad accident in Wales a couple of years before. I thought I could manage the bowling. It was a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon when John (my late husband) and I ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell in 1976 by Elsie Hollis

High winds and loud crashing in the middle of the night. Not long after my divorce, moving back to live with my mother and father. We were woken by crashing of bricks from the gable end of the house. Both mine and my father's ...Read more

A memory of Great Wigborough in 1987 by Alan Theobald

We had the priviledge of staying in Muchelney during December 2007! What a discovery! We stayed in a beautiful cottage, had lovely hosts. As visitors from Africa, we experienced our first real heavy frost. The pools of water ...Read more

A memory of Muchelney in 2007 by Susan Neethling