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"It's only wind or powder on the stomach"my Mam had said as she walked home from the ammunition factory on a cold Autumn evening. The "wind" or "powder" was born on the 2nd December 1942. I, Colin Gronow, had ...Read more

A memory of Graig in 1940 by Colin Gronow

I attended Zeals C of E Primary school between 1958 and 1963. We actually lived over the border in Bourton (next to the White Lion pub) but the school was nearer than Bourton school. "Pop" Winter and his wife were the full time ...Read more

A memory of Zeals in 1958 by Simon Palmer

This is my Uncle and Aunt and cousin Arthur, outside their cottage no. 32 North Hill in Clovelly village. They lived there for many years and took in many many people for B&B, people ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly by Graham Shackson

I have always loved Highmoor; my father, John Tudor Mills, was born there, at Satwell, in 1924, his mother Doris Tudor having been born opposite St Paul's church in Highmoor in 1900; her parents, George Tudor, of ...Read more

A memory of Highmoor Cross by Roger Mills

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

The marriage in 1804 features distantly in my own family history and follows through with the marriages of Thomas and Tryphena Lawrence in 1834, followed by David and Ann Durant in 1870, and then David and Mabel Marshall in 1907. ...Read more

A memory of Gedney Hill

V. E. day was a great day, as I clearly remember it. I remember cycling up High Street with a flag on my handlebars, and a propeller whizzing round in the wind, which we made out of wood, it was a popular with the kids at that time. Bonfires ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1945 by Bob Marriott

In 1942 aged 5 due to my father being a shipwright in the Portsmouth Dockyard he was transferred to a satellite dockyard at Dunstaffnage where we stayed as a family until the war finished and we then moved back to ...Read more

A memory of Oban in 1942 by Brian Woodward

I was born in 1945 at the end of the Second World War at was then 3 Park Villas, Goff's Lane, the home of my grandmother, Alice Emma James. House renumbering during the 1950s resulted in the house becoming 393 ...Read more

A memory of Goff's Oak by Leslie Selby

Ford End is now a shell of its former self, almost like the UK. When I was a child in the village, growing up, there was no better place to be. There was a shop, two pubs, the Spread Eagle at the top of the village and the ...Read more

A memory of Ford End by Lawrence Gill