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The book is an award gift to a swimming winner in the year 1901 (picture 5, 6), so the book must be published and printed before 1901. The book has 341 pages (picture 9). The book's cover has the ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet by yabunmanlei2

I was a little girl who was adopted to Cecil John Keeler and my first visit to Petham was as a 5yr old. My Granny Fanny keeler and had 5 sons. Dick.Ray.Ted.Cecil and Reg.Granny Keeler also had 3 daughters Daisy.Girlie and ...Read more

A memory of Petham by sjmurray278

Farsley was a great place to grow up. I lived there from 1937 till 1955. As kids we had great fun playing in the beck just above the Cricket Field, before the Council Estate was built. When it was wet we played in the Cricket ...Read more

A memory of Farsley by colin.colville

I have fond memories of days out in Angmering. Dad used to park up in an enclosed grassy area and the beach was just beyond some bushes. We used to have food cooked on the primer stove and we'd spend all day there. I wasn't ...Read more

A memory of Angmering-on-Sea by Gillian G.

In the 50‘s we (my family and my mum’s sister’s family) spent two holidays in rented holiday houses in Polzeath. The first house was “The Hermitage” and was situated on the cliff overlooking the sea with no buildings in front. The ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath by Janet Völcker

I only found this site today. With Covid, I believe we are all dreaming and thinking of things that we never would have thought about before. I woke up this morning and thought about the Saturday night dances held at Parkstone Grammar ...Read more

A memory of Poole by Janet Landau

My first job when I was 15 was in Silverthorn Telephone Exchange. I remember, when I went to the Telephone Managers Office for my interview. I had wanted to work in Directory Enquiries but was told that ...Read more

A memory of Chingford by Lynne Bacon

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” all ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

I moved to Corsham with my mother approx 1947. She became housekeeper to "eventually" my stepfather Jack Giblin. He worked firstly at a big house-Pockeridge ?- as a messenger, subsequently as a stoker in a boiler room at Hawthorn. We ...Read more

A memory of Corsham by joma8

Every year during the '50s when I was a child we came to Waytown for our holiday, staying for a couple of weeks at the Hare and Hounds. Mr and Mrs Fleet were the landlords. My brother and I played with the children who lived ...Read more

A memory of Waytown by hazel.lintott