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The large building on the left edge of the photograph is Ruswarp Mill. A mill has been here since Saxon times and the first written record of this mill appears in the Domesday book. The name Ruswarp may have originated from the mill. ...Read more

A memory of Ruswarp by Claire Allen

This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the steam ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

This dam on the river Scaur would be erected to power the mill,the big building to the right of the falls of which is now gone as is the dam When I was a boy water was taken from the left and used to power a turbine to generate electricty ...Read more

A memory of Penpont by Hugh Turner

I have found that two or three generations of the 'Hart' family were born in and around Eastleach, including Coln St Aldwins and Northleach. My curiosity led me to Arlington Mill - it seemed a likely place for work. One address was the ...Read more

A memory of Bibury in 1860 by Christobel Knight

To the lady who went to High Legh School. The school mistress was Mrs James who lived on Wrenshot Lane in High Legh. She had two children. Holly Cottage was recently up for sale, on the death of Mrs Hilton. The village continues ...Read more

A memory of High Legh

For a 9 year old boy from Edinburgh the travel arrangements for our family holiday to Dublin in 1958 were quite an adventure. Embarkation on the steamer at the Broomielaw in Glasgow and our billet turned out to be in the ...Read more

A memory of Dublin in 1958 by James Mc Ewan

It is strange to see one of the two portraits that hung in my grandparents' hallway, for sale on the web.  Issac was born in 1837 in Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire.  Taught himself to read and write while an agricultural labourer, ...Read more

A memory of Marlborough by Peter Waylen

THIS WAS MY DADS OLD SCHOOL HE TOLD ME THE HEADMASTERS NAME WAS MR SALMOND HE USED TO WALK FROM TRESCOTT TO GET TO THIS SCHOOL EVERY DAY/NIGHT,HIS NAME WAS LEONARD CROYDON

A memory of Trysull by David Croydon

I was at school at Tylers Croft school in 1957 for 18 months before we moved to Oxfordshire. I remember walking to school from where I lived in Salmon Street, along Slough Lane and passed the Green Man pub and crossing over the Kingsbury ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury by carole.gentry

In March 1940 we came to live in Gerrards Cross. The school which my parents chose for me was called "Oakend". in Orchehill Avenue, I think. Two ladies, Miss Hitchcock and Miss Salmon, owned the school and taught us, ...Read more

A memory of Gerrards Cross by Ann Martyr