Search Results

When I was 6 years old my brother Ken and I went to live at Kenward, the Dr Barnardo's home in Yalding. It was a fantastic house and I can still remember the lay out of it. We had a wonderful childhood there. We had 'aunts' in the local shops ...Read more

A memory of Yalding in 1952 by Margaret Cadger

My family owned the Chinese laundry at the corner of Cannon St. and Liverpool Rd. The laundry was named the Soo Wing Laundry, after my grandfather. I was born in August 1941 and, as a baby, I remember being wrapped in ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft in 1940 by Peter Soo

My father was a teacher at Pyrford School when Len Cowie was the headmaster. I remember Mrs Jones and Mrs Bugler and Miss Mcdermot and Mr Stevens, who lived by the old school in Engliff Lane. I remember being privileged to sometimes ...Read more

A memory of Pyrford in 1965 by Adrian Bray Bray

This is the Broadway as I knew it. Both the Middlesex registered Driving School Morris 1000 and the East Sussex registered Morris 1000 truck MPN556 date this to after 1958. On the right beyond Eastman's the cleaners were WF ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath

As a boy of 11 or 12, I left school everyday at 3.30pm. I then drove the cows to Mr Goodings Mill about 30 or 40 yards away from Mr Shepherd's shop. After being milked I drove them back again. In wintertime I'd grind up ...Read more

A memory of Washford by Claire Allen

The photograph was probably taken from the top of the Odeon cinema which was demolished in about 1983. On the skyline can be seen the Lyceum Theatre, the Corn Exchange (now demolished), the Market Hall clock tower, the Town Hall and the ...Read more

A memory of Crewe

This view shows the junction line which linked the GWR Victoria station with the Junction station - running from left to right and opened in 1887. It must have been almost new when the photo was taken and the earthworks are still bare.

A memory of Barnstaple in 1890

Frome's 'Oldest House' or 'Pepperpot' has a chequered past even in recent times. I moved to Frome in 1992 when it was being used as a Travel Agents and looked fairly run down. It then remained closed for a number of years except at ...Read more

A memory of Frome by Julian Hight

What a lovely vacation we had that year. When I see photos of Buck's Mills, like this one, I am transported back to those precious days under the sun. People that live on in my heart are there. I remember so clearly the path by the ...Read more

A memory of Buck's Mills in 1971 by Kelly Mitchell

According to my research, the Wangford Post Office was, in 1901, run by Philip W. Champ (Sub Postmaster) and his brother Septimus S. Champ (Post Offfice Assistant). I am related to them by marriage. I believe that Philip died in the First World War.

A memory of Wangford in 1900 by Shirley Newman