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This is Alan Edgar Fullwood's memory and the reference to Slinfold is right at the bottom of this narration: Edgar Fullwood was my father.  He was born in Birmingham England in what is to me the beginning of our history in 1875 on October ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1870 by Anne Robertson

I am a former pupil of Chaigley, where I spent several happy years.  I remember the little school house on the left side opposite and a little further up from  the post office where we used to sit and have an illicit smoke.  I also ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall in 1976 by Chris Everard

I have very fond memories of Caerau. I was born 1946 and I loved Caerau. We had real fun times in the summer picking whimberries and your mam making delicious tarts, families gathering on the mountain for picnics, spending hours on end ...Read more

A memory of Caerau in 1951 by Diane Vincent

My great great grandfather was miller, the farmer after the mill burnt down in 1880, for years with his son also John. They lived in the Mill House. My grandmother was brought up there. John senior is buried in the churchyard. Any details would be interesting.

A memory of Hartlip in 1890 by berylrobinson

I was born in Lower Cwmtwrch in the 1930s, but my memory of those days is not all that good, well a bit sparse! I was born in Brynderi Bungalow, they tell now that a new school has been built there on the old colliery ...Read more

A memory of Lower Sketty in 1940 by Julian Best

The row of cottages on the left was where my great grandma and granddad brought up lots of kids and even took wartime evacuees. I remember Dinah from Wembley used to visit up to the 80s when she passed away. They were ...Read more

A memory of Rillington by Ian Vasey

Yes I remember the school - I remember Miss McDermot & Mr Stevens & also Mr Cowie - he stayed at our house (The Coach House) in Blackdown Avenue one night during the 1963/4 bad winter as he could not get home - I remember ...Read more

A memory of Pyrford by Charles Dixon Payne

My aunt Doris Lacey (nee Allen) lived in Apsley Road, South Norwood. She started to lose her sight in her late 80's and therefore the pleasures of reading, watching television or going out ...Read more

A memory of South Norwood in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

We moved to Lyminge Close, Twydall in 1960 from our wartime built pre-fab in Wigmore when I was 15 months old. Pictured are the 'modern' post war shops but there was also an older red-brick parade opposite. Out of shot on the right of the ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by John Fernandez

Michael Roffey, my GGGF was Head Gamekeeper on this estate until his death in 1907. Many of the Roffey clan worked and had cottages on the Estate. Lagham House is still surrounded by the moat from the 13c. Lagham Castle; the moat is a scheduled Ancient Monument.

A memory of Godstone in 1900 by Ian Burgin