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I have very fond memories of Ivanhoe Aston. My Aunt & Uncle Tom & Florence Boanson moved there from Sunderland in 1939 along with their 2 sons George & Tom. To my knowledge they were the first tenants ...Read more

A memory of Ivinghoe Aston by Stan Kershaw

The pub over the road did a singalong every Saturday night ending in a very long finale of "Hit the Road Jack - Don't you come back no more, no more ,no more, no more", and so on. I don't know about the pub but I doubt if anybody ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

We came to a deserted Moresdale Hall in the 1980s and spent several years refurbishing it. Because it had 2 front doors and 2 staircases we were able to divide it and share it with my brother's family. It ...Read more

A memory of Moresdale Hall

My memories of Collingwood began with my very first day there, in 1948, when I was l was left alone in a big empty hall, not knowing what to do! Eventually one of the teachers came in, saying crossly, " Why are you ...Read more

A memory of Wallington by Gillian Bryan

I grew up in Polzeath and my two best mates also lived in the area, sadly, both dead now. I remember in the summers the CSSM coming down and staying in New Polzeath, arranging lots of beach games in the afternoons but building a 'Pulpit" ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Christopher Le Bailly

Before & during the Second World War my uncle was an electrical engineer & had a shop in Plashet Grove opposite Washington Road. Unfortunately I wasn't born until 1946 & so I have no knowledge of the shop except some photos ...Read more

A memory of Upton Park by Alan Guy

I was here with my sisters in the 1980s and I remember it as scary and horrible. There was 3 teachers i remember miss fletcher she worked in a wee tiny tiny shop with her wee white dog.miss lockie old women played piano in the ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by mariemurphy44

I was born in Taplow in 1957, my parents shared a house (a semi) with my grandparents. They lived downstairs and us obviously upstairs. I attended St Anthony’s Catholic School on the Farnham Rd and at that time they had ...Read more

A memory of Slough by Bob Gough

We traveled from Missouri U.S.A. in 2015. Having reached Bonsall, Derbyshire, a kind, elderly resident told us she used to deliver meat to Mouldridge Grange for her uncle the butcher, as she pointed across the rooftops to his ...Read more

A memory of Mouldridge Grange by Gary Bonsall

Born in 1955, we went from Botley to the New Forest and then we moved again where I went to school in Fair Oak when I was 8 years old. I remember the cows to be milked used to come down Mortimers Lane to the ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak by Jeremy Phipp