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This magnificent brick built church must surely be the finest example of brick architecture in the country. My nephew, Nick Arbin, and his bride Johanna chose it as the venue for their wedding on June 2nd ...Read more

A memory of Hampstead in 2012 by John Howard Norfolk

I am Philip Hopkins, born 1952 and moved the Ostels when I was 6 months old and lived there till I was 10. We lived in the posh part of the Ostels (brick built), I think the hostel had two bedrooms and was in a place called ...Read more

A memory of Abergarw in 1958 by Philip Hopkins

We were among the first half dozen families to move onto Darvel Down back in 1949, I think. We originally occupied No.43 which was one of the handful of finished houses and in those days the estate was a builders dump. ...Read more

A memory of Netherfield in 1949 by Brian Heard

In the 1960's Hartington Youth Hostel was a big modern and clean place to stay - yet strangely it was in a beautiful old stone building up the hill from the village. I remember my visit in summer 1967: I was ...Read more

A memory of Hartington in 1967 by John Howard Norfolk

Grew up in Newmarket Street, Knighton. Like most kids at that time we never had new clothes & had little food. I went to Avenue Road School when I was four years old, this was in 1939 just before the war. Craddock Arms Pub was at the ...Read more

A memory of Oadby in 1930 by Alma Friston

I lived in Horton from my birth to my 22nd year. I went to the Horton Church School first in 1941. There was a separate playground for both boys and girls, and a small door leading into the shelters. When the air raid siren ...Read more

A memory of Horton in 1940 by Sylvie Mc Kay

I was born in 1952 and lived in this village untill I was 22. My home was no3, the red brick semi in the centre of photo and later no5, the white house right hand side. These houses were called Kerrsland Cottages and were owed by ...Read more

A memory of Hurtmore in 1977 by Janet Wilde

My Creasey family ancestors, farmed here in the 1700's and early 1800's. There is a possibility that Edward Creasey acquired Gibbshaven through a family connection of his wife Amelia Stone, ...Read more

A memory of Felbridge by John Howard Norfolk

My earliest memory, is going to look at The Green, on the High Street in Fowlmere. It was in a poor state and the ceiling in the kitchen had collapsed. My father, had built a house in the village called Mere Place on Rectory Lane, so ...Read more

A memory of Fowlmere in 1969

This is actually my father's memory, told to me as I am researching our family history. My father, Douglas March, grew up in Plumpton Green from 1931 - 1944. He lived with his parents and sister, at a house ...Read more

A memory of Plumpton