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This photo was taken in 1963, my husband was the boy on the bike. He said that it was taken on a Saturday afternoon. The chapel on the right of this view has now been demolished.

A memory of Ton Pentre in 1963 by Jan Powell

Down Beggers Hill and round the bend, just a short distance from the Jolly Wagoners and next to the Eight Bells, there was a blacksmiths who used a furnace to shape the iron shoes that were used to shoe horses. The horses from ...Read more

A memory of Ewell by Patricia Dickson

I was born in Gosport in 1959. As the daughter of a sailor we left a couple of times but always returned. I married at St Marys Alverstoke in 1980. I have very fond, maybe a little rose-tinted, memories of ...Read more

A memory of Gosport by Sue Hibberd

Holidayed on Pagham beach as a young child in the late 1950s. Somewhat dilapidated bungalow with outside toilet called Sand Toy (now vastly different). Remember going to the amusements and paying 3d to ride on Muffin the Mule, and put ...Read more

A memory of Pagham by Barbara Townsend

My memory bank has been activated by the contributed items about Hugh Bell Central School, though my recollections of Hugh Bell are older than those published on this website. My years at Hugh Bell were 1938 to ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough in 1940 by Harry Killick

I started school at the age of five following in the footsteps of my brother John and sister Pam and walking each day to school from Quarr Lane, sometimes we used the footpath starting at Frogmore farm and coming out above the ...Read more

A memory of Chideock in 1943 by Patricia Homewood

My dad used to drive the speedboat, I used to go for rides as a child, it used to seem so fast. All the holiday makers used to scream, it was great fun. I used to help with the beach ponies and donkeys in the summer holidays. Has anyone got any memories to share?

A memory of Hunstanton in 1967 by Marlene Hyland

Does anyone remember Wyleboro Farm in Havering atte Bower, owned by my grandmother Mrs Maggie Saward? She also owned the riding school near the Green with her sons John, Tom and my mother Nancy,and I ...Read more

A memory of Havering-atte-Bower in 1950 by Wendy Tait

My family lived at No 3 (the top flat), Corner House, at the top end of Broad Street, first on the left looking at the photo (but just out of the picture) for many years from 1947 or so. I ...Read more

A memory of New Alresford in 1947 by John Dear

I was born on Room's Lane in one of three cottages near to the train station. My father worked for Roland Humphry. We moved to St Bernard's not long after I was born, the house was the previous horseman's home, My dad ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1951 by Leslie Kershaw