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Memories are the garnish of our later years... During my extreme youth, the closest we ever got to a summer holiday was a week spent with our maternal grandparents. My father would trundle us through to their ...Read more

A memory of Felixstowe in 1957 by Mo Haarhoff

My family, being mother, father, brother and I (Nancy Laythorn) moved to Scraesdon Cottage in 1940. Under the watchful eye of the Headmistress, Mrs Crabb, Joy Maddever, Margaret Hitchcock and I passed our 11 plus, continuring our education at ...Read more

A memory of Antony by Nancy Allwork

I worked with the ponies and donkies in the mid to late 1960s. Sometimes we would take them home to their field via Seagate Road, there would be about 4 or 5 of us riding ponies and the donkies would follow but ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1968 by Marlene Hyland

I was born and lived in Forest Hall 1952-1968. I had relatives that lived in South-Shields, they owned the cycle shop Hornsbys. I used to go on visits there with my grandparents for tea, I remember we used to go down to the ...Read more

A memory of South Shields by Brenda Glover Nee Malone

I have many fond memories of holidaying at Pinewoods Caravan Park where my now late grandparents (Lil and Bill Potter) used to own a caravan. They would take me up there for 2-3 weeks in the summertime and my mum ...Read more

A memory of Wells-Next-The-Sea in 1976

I returned with my mother from the United States to Talacre where my grandmother lived. My grandmother's name was Dora Williams, she lived at Beach Cottage, Station Road. Dora Williams during the Second World War owned a bakery on ...Read more

A memory of Talacre in 1962

When I was three or four years old I visited Cawsand for a family holiday. I remember it very clearly because, for various reasons, it was the only holiday we all went on together. I am hoping someone might be able to solve an on-going ...Read more

A memory of Cawsand in 1967 by Patricia Adams

During the invasion scare of WW2, Porthpean beach was protected from seaborne landings by the Germans by having anti-landing craft defences built along the length of the beach at I believe, the low tide mark. ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1943 by Peter Marks

I have very fond memories of the childrens pool in Lee-on-the-Solent where I used to live between 1960 to 1966.  Many summer days were spent at the pool which was located adjacent to the beach. I remember I learned to swim ...Read more

A memory of Lee in 1965 by Rosemary White

My Family moved to the house to the left of the school gates in 1957, before the school was built. I lived there until 1965 when I married and moved to the USA. My brother went to this school, and I used to cut across the field to catch ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Common in 1957 by Jill Trimble