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I was very fortunate to be evacuated to this beautiful village at the beginning of World War Two. I remember being lined up in the village hall with about fifteen other evacuees. My elder sister was with ...Read more

A memory of Luxulyan in 1940 by Reginald Tipple

This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she moved ...Read more

A memory of Misterton by Anthony Spracklen

Actually this memory via my father and grandfather go back further than 1860. My great-great-grandfather, Richard Seanor, got interested in match making and went to London to find out the process etc. He then came back to ...Read more

A memory of Rothwell in 1860 by Eric Seanor

Sixty-four years after the photograph was taken, little had changed when my father Donald Macdonald a resident of Bridge of Allan was buried at the Logie Kirk graveyard just the Ochil's side of the Craig. My Dad ...Read more

A memory of Bridge of Allan in 1963 by Alastair Macdonald

The public telephone in this picture of Tredegar Street was outside my father's butcher shop. There were only two buttons to press: button A and button B, but people were terrified of pressing the wrong one. My father, Gomer Mumford, used to ...Read more

A memory of Risca in 1955 by Cedric Mumford

The name is Gareth Davis, and my grandfather (Harry Davis) lived at No 2 Ivor (Ifor) Terrace in Blackmill, although I later lived in Bryncethin I used to travel with the local butcher Clive Heale back to Blackmill to deliver meat to homes ...Read more

A memory of Blackmill in 1957 by Gareth Davis

I recently made a trip to visit my ancestor's grave in the cemetery at Mortlach Parish Church. The tomb stone records the deaths of my Great Grandmother Margaret Stuart who died in 1897 aged 50 years ...Read more

A memory of Dufftown in 1890 by Caryl Longland

Hi, I am trying to find out a bit about my great-grandmother who used to live at the Flying Horse pub with her daughter Ruth Phillips about 1930/40. Ruth and her husband William Phillips are both buried in the church graveyard behind ...Read more

A memory of Smarden by Margaret Williams

When Davie Gibson was manager of the Haven, when all the guests were seated in the dining room, he would bang on the table and lead everyone in singing grace to the hymn 'Let us sing with gladsome mind, praise the Lord for he is kind.....'

A memory of St Abbs in 1943 by Denis Kirkland

I have lived here all of my 65 years and can't imagine living elsewhere unless fate dictates otherwise. Corwen had reached rock bottom at one stage, but,as they say - the only way is up! Hopefully, I will live to see the railway back ...Read more

A memory of Corwen by Gareth Hughes