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I too remember Tesh's Emporium.... it was as someone said, somewhere you felt both excitement and dread at the same time lol .... he reminded me of a Fagin character looking back!....I lived in the Pavilion ( or Pav ) as it was called , good times as the disco's we had were great, especially when you lived there too! My Mom and dad were the steward and stewardess till they split up, and My dad, me and my ...see more
I was baptised in St Giles's Church in March 1943, having been born in Hoylake Crescent. My paternal grandparents also lived in Hoylake Crescent. I went to Breakspeare Primary School from 1948 to 1952 when the family moved to Cornwall.
My parents were married in St. Martin's Church in Ruislip as my maternal grandparents lived in Ruislip.
Our bungalow backed onto the River Pinn and in winter if often ...see more
The Methodist infant school's headmaster was George Topliss, my teacher was Mrs Cresswell. The school is now a private house. There were only three classes, infants, juniors and seniors. If you did not pass the 11+ you stayed until 14-15 years and then went to work. In the juniors was an ogre of a teacher, really strict and who spat when getting cross. Getting to Mr Topliss's class was the aim, he was lovely, or ...see more
I went to Sutton East Secondary Modern School, Throwley Road, and spent some happy years there and made many friends. I am trying to locate any of them, and anyone who went to the youth club. I have so many fond memories of school days and Sutton, we had moved around a lot, and I would love anyone to contact me. I remember visits to the two cinemas, shopping in Ghinns, and working at Dolton, Bourne & ...see more
A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton
A Yokel's Tale
My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school years, when my Mum and Dad occasionally visited them at May Cottages, Longwood Dean. They lived at the south end of a group of four tied Mock Tudor cottages which had steep brick steps ...see more
I remember being taken to Wiveliscombe as a young boy in my Uncle Jim's dark green Standard Vanguard, he ran the Rock Inn at Waterrow 1954- 1965. He would take me to the toy shop at Wiveliscombe Square called Richards and Lanes (later became Twiggers) to buy me a Dinky or Corgi car. I was only four in 1960. Our family had moved from Holbury near the New Forest in Hampshire to Somerset in the ...see more
Monday market, being taken there by my Mum to do the shopping and then being indulged by the generous salesmen from Standens agricultural engineers and allowed to sit up in the (then) enormous cab and glory in watching our market hub-bub flowing past whilst imagining myself ploughing some vast Fen field. ( Genetics? My eldest son is now an agricultural equipment engineer and has always loved being around the machines.)
Was tasked (with my fellow sappers) with the building of 2 wooden bridges with my colleagues of 103 Field Squadron RE.
I would love to know if they are still standing and what the area where they were built in is called - some day I intend to visit this place and re-visit some happy memories.
I remember it was a few miles outside Sanquhar but we went into Sanquhar each night to sample the pubs.
I was born in Upney hospital in July 1947 and lived in a prefab at 703 Ripple Road. Opposite was a bone/scrap yard and along the road the Ship & Shovel pub. I went to Campbell and Dawson schools and remember the shops in Gale Street. Went to Saturday morning pictures in Beacontree for 6d - there was a good fish and chip shop there too also remember going camping in Halinut ...see more
Hi, does anyone remember Jack and Louise Gray who lived in South Hetton. I am trying to trace my step-father's family for him but I am having no luck tracing them.
He remembers they lived at 17 Grasmere Terrace (now demolished it seems!).
They had five children I believe, Mary/May, George, Reginald,Sally and John who lived in south Hetton until he became ill in 1993. Any information would be gratefully received.
Thank you.
I was born in Blurton in 1956 and attended Hem Heath Infants school which was part of Blurton High School. If I recall correctly Hem Heath Infants closed and Sutherland School took on the children from Hem Heath. It was always called Sutherland Primary School as far as I can recall. The Pub by the side of it was called The Cornerstone and we used to call into the outdoor to spend our ...see more
This is a memory from my own childhood when my grandmother used to tell me about her life as a child mill worker. Born in 1885, she died when I was 8 years old, and I so much wish I had more details of who the real Fanny Daulby (Frances Lilian) was. But my detail is very sketchy, and I am the only surviving member of our family old enough to even know her name! She talked about going to school in the ...see more
A prefabricated hut or nursery school in Franks park I went to near Valley Road, I lived in Stanmore Road, any pictures please?
I lived as a child in Croydon. My memories were the shops, tea at Alders, a special treat of milk shake at Macdonalds (there was only one at that time and it tasted better!). There was a sweet shop at the bottom of Shirley Avenue where I would stop to buy sweets on my way back from school. My mum would ask me go to the Butchers shop on lower Addiscombe which I did not mind since they were ever so nice. Ashburton ...see more
Started my training there June 1977, remember the great training and lovely tutors and great colleagues. I lived in Vale House and then Hill House, all uniform being washed and ironed for us. Went between Walton & Fazakerly for training. Happy times, loved the wards at both hospitals and the huge A&E department. Met my husband Joe there, he'd just qualified worked nights at ...see more
I lived at 2 Plass Cottages until we were evicted in 1951 or 1952, my step dad worked on the farm, his name was George Squire.
My mother now 85 years old worked in the 'Casle' when it was a girls school, she was about 15, at the time, and like many of her generation had to go into 'service', and leave home. She made friends with the Taylor family who lived in Holt Fleet, I have memories visitng them in their cottage as a young boy, still in school, back home in South Wales. Many years late Dad & Mum took my daughter and I to see the castle, now I believe a private residence, converted to flats
My father died in 1961 when I was 9 years old. I was told by Notts. Social Services I needed a holiday and was shipped off to a children's home in Skegness for 3 weeks. I cried when I got on the bus and waved goodbye to my mum. Although the people were very kind, I ticked off each day and could not wait to return home. I remember going to church on a Sunday and we had to wear brown ...see more
I can remember stayiing at a camp with wooden huts for children in the 1960s.
My father died when I was nine and Notts. Social Services arranged for me and my brother to have a holiday. Although I was home-sick, I stuck it out for a week. My memories are a beach with stones, not sand, and it hurt my feet.
Does anyone else remember staying at this holiday camp in the 1960s. I would be interested to know.
I have mentioned in passing that Intake did not have the same panache as say Balby, Hexthorpe or Armthorpe in places of entertainment but it did provide some wide open spaces to play in. Over the Armthorpe Road opposite Flint House, there was the disused sand quarry of the Brick Marketing Company which was being used by the local authourity for dumping the Borough's rubbish and this was a ...see more
It was great sliding down the Tops on pieces of cardboard or a washer top, we went so fast hoping not to hit a car on the low road. When I used to go to school in the morning on the way to pick up my friend I would get a twig from the privets, bend it and start collecting spider webs with dew on them, by the time we got to school we had a beautiful pattern, it became a ritual in the cold mornings on the ...see more
I've put the year as 1949 but I was born in 1947 at the Ashtree Houses, number 3, the one with the tap outside. I went to the Varteg Infant School, not for long though as we moved to Coventry in the early 1950s. There was Mam, Dad, brothers Emrys, Graham, Billy, myself and my youngest brother Granville. We had relatives in Blaenavon and Tinklers and Bates and Jones's and Bates on the Garn. When we left ...see more
So pleased to have laid Dad to rest here with his parents, grandparents, ... A special thanks to the aptly named Goodfellows for arranging and conducting the interment. A. M. Hine
The petrol station on the right is where my mum bought her first car, a standard 8. I was 3 at the time and remember sitting in the back [no child restraints of course] while she test drove it.
I can still remember the smell of Gadsbey's, the delicatescent on the left.
The pet shop/ garden equipment shop, 2nd on the left, was where she bought our first kitten, also about 1955. He was a tabby called Tiger and lived ...see more
I also remember Weston Road, that is the road leading from Weston Village down into Runcorn, via the Isolation Hospital and then down into Greenway Road. My father Owen Roberts worked all his life at the ICI Castner Kelner works, "Castners" as it was known and he also had a part time job as a gardener at the big house on lower part of Weston Road called called - Beaconsfield, not sure who owned Beaconsfield ...see more
I attended Onslow County Secondary school in the late 1950s. I remember there were several children attending who came from that children's home at Pilgrim's Way. I always remember them as being well adjusted and extremely well mannered children. One particular friend of mine went by the name of Margaret ?, she had heart trouble and I believe underwent surgery in the early 1960s. She had a sister who had been ...see more
My memories of the Bridge are of when I used to travel from where my family lived in Weston Village into Runcorn (circa 1956) to do our shopping and watch the construction taking place, increasing in size each time we saw it - usually on a Saturday morning when we went into town to do the weekly shop in the market which was situated under cover next to the Runcorn swimming baths. Mine and my ...see more
I was born in Otley hospital as were most from Guiseley and all around. In 1969 I was posted there as a police officer and stayed until 1974. My daughter was born there in 1972 and my dad died there on his 81st birthday. I know every alleyway and every warm heating outlet at 2am... and of course the doughnut bakery down Bridge Street. Last night I found that my two Sergeants died in the 1990s and life is going ...see more
My grandmother bought the Grove Hall and ran it as a small country hotel. I remember having my birthday parties in the dinning room. As kids we also used to play with the swords and battle axes that were hanging on the walls. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. We also used to play in the attics, this is where I had a strange encounter with a duo of ghostly balls flying past my head. My parents moved the family ...see more
I must have got a Saturday job with Sid as soon as I'd turned 13 in 1972-ish for £2 a day...I loved working for him. Fond memories of gents coming into shop with a pound note asking Sid to 'change' it for them - giving it to Sid who'd slowly ring no sale into the till, carefully place the note in, extract an identical one and give to customer - duly 'changed.'
Another favourite was when they asked Sid to 'split' a fiver. He'd simply tear it in two and then calmly hand it back. What a great job!
Dear reader, I have received some lovely messages since writing a few memories I thought I would add a few more. The Rock Inn I use to stay with my great uncle/aunty's public house, namely the Rock Inn, in 1958- 1965. The Pub was split into three rooms, the Snug, the Lounge Bar and the restaurant. There (Jim and Florence Pyle) were the landlord of the the Rock. At the time we the Bishop Family lived ...see more
Hello! This is a memory of my late Mother ~ so if anyone can remember, please contact me! In 1946 my Mother was staying at Pond House in Sanderstead. She was staying with the Murdoch family and was a Nanny to Gay Murdoch. Pond House is still standing, and opposite the Pond and the Gruffy. In those days The Rectory was next door. Does anyone remember The Murdoch family and my Mother was called Winifred Cooper ?
Wayne Carter’s memories from 1966 - 1973 I remember Olive an old lady in Trafaser Crescent, she lived in the flats, I use to do errands for her; she always buy me ice-cream, or give me sweets. I remember Michael Bratcher, John Cain, and David George, Neil O’Mara, Twins Peter and Tony Isles, and I would call for Russell Sims every morning; we’d play football with a tennis ball before ...see more
I was born at 1 Mount Pleasant Road, corner of Sandy Lane - the 7th of eight siblings born to Francis George Martin & Rose Emily Long. Unfortunately, I had to leave Little Sandhurst when 5 years old. Fortunately the memories I left with have been with me all my life. The Guy Fawkes fires on the 'Common', the Christmas parties at Wellington and Sandhurst Military Colleges and the Methodist Church, the gypsy coming ...see more
I used to work on the market on Saturday morning when I was not playing football for the school team (St Gabriels. I used to go around the stalls with jugs of tea and sandwiches for the stallholders. I remember the black pudding man was a great tipper, he always said thanks and gave me a tanner (sixpence) and it was well received. and the black puddings were great as well. I also had a job on Wednesday evenings ...see more
I moved to the hill as a child with my brother and sisters in the early 1950as to Dagnam Park Square. We had a lovely wood there to play in. Tin Tan Tommy was our best game, standing on the sand bin spying out the other kids and calling out their names once they were spotted. We had to cross the old A12 to get to Harold Park shops, or Dutch and Little as it was known back then, where we would shop in Fairways ...see more
Wayne Carter My father is Frederick Carter born in London, and mother was Loraine Carter nee Chadwick was born Cyfarthfa Street Roath; mum sadly passed away in 1998. I have a younger sister Jane Carter nee Dunscombe, and younger brother Paul Carter. I was born in St David’s hospital; until I was nearly 2 I lived in Claude Road, Roath. I was just over 2 years old when my family and I moved to ...see more
I lived at no. 11 Elmwood Cottages from 1950-58 with my parents, brother and sister and have fond memories of the village. We used to collect blackberries to sell to a man with a van who parked on the triangle which is just showing in the forefront of the photo. He would weigh what we had and the money we earned would pay for us to go to Thame fair. Miss Kirby was the infant school teacher and in the ...see more
Does any one have any memories of a Wilma Rutherford? She was a friend of my mother's and I would love to hear any memories of her.
The Corringham Bull brings back memories for me too. I remember very well the legendary publican Charlie Abbott, better known as 'short change Charlie'. I left Corringham in 1963 but I sometimes return for a visit and have a pint in the Bull but it never seems quite the same as it was, but I suppose that's the way it is, nothing stays the same.
When I was young in the 1950s I would spend some weeks of my summer vacation at my grandparents' house at 11 Newington Terrace, Elizabeth and Albert Torr. I remember swimming in the river, we would go to the weir and remove some of the planks and let the water spray over us and cool us down. I would travel each year from Belfast in Northern Ireland by boat to Liverpool and then by train to Craven Arms. My ...see more
I recall being taken here for my first real drink aged 13 by my uncle. I had to sit outside of course. It soon became my local and I drank there up until the mid 70s.
Even after all the years, it still looks basically the same here!
I am sure the shop running down the side of the river was a shoe shop and that they had a big rocking horse that I used to love to ride, but when going in I used to look down at the river and my legs would go weak, I still get strange dreams about it today and I am 60.
Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971.
When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being posted within the Army, they felt a boarding school would give me a more stable education. I vaguely remember touring the school with them and Mr Blencowe, the Headmaster, one summer ...see more
I really remember the fish & chip shop, the stuffed alligator; kids were scared of it apart from me. I also recall how nasty that short Greek woman from the fish & chip shop was. One early memory I recall isn’t only an unquestionable horror, but also a total mystery. I trailed my mother as she carried my younger sister through the empty supermarket. We paused on the bus ...see more
My dad was from Bridgend and my mother was from Llanharran. In 1961 soon after they’d got together, I was conceived, they left the valley's and moved in with my Nan, Maureen Payne / Pobihem, and Step Grampy, Polish partner John Pobihem along with my aunties Janice, Sandra, Sonia and Uncle Peter; my Nan was pregnant with my Uncle Mark. My Nan was better known to us as Bigmam; I didn’t know she was my ...see more
My life in Edwinstowe started in 1953. My father was starting a new job of caretaker at King Edwin School, l was three years old.
My new friend was Jean Matkin whose father also worked at the school, we had many happy hours playing and village life was good, the miners so friendly and helpfull with the odd help with coal, and in winter time my dad made a sledge so that we could get milk etc from the ...see more
Janine, I grew up in Darlington, we left in 1968 to come to Canada, I remember very well the Scots Greys buses On the back they had their slogan, "Glorious Runs and Safe Returns". My mother used to organise street trips to Redcar and Seaton Carew, and we always hired those buses. I lived in Hewitson Road and Park lane, went to St. Johns School and the Grammar School
The person was probably 'Tiny' who was the National Trust warden. He was also an entertainer who regaled us with stories and jokes of the local area.
We met him when we lived at Ford Cottage in the early 1950s. He had names for the swans and each of the cygnets on the second pond.
I was born June 1953 in the white bungalow just to the right of the woman in the photo. It was called "Meadway" and my parents moved there in 1950 when there was just fields opposite where the houses can be seen. My sister still lives on the plot of land in the house built in 1975 to replace the old bungalow.
Is West Hill Hospital still at the top of West Hill? And do some of you remember the trams going from the Dartford libary and up West Hill? I cannot remember how far they went to.
I was born in Calverley in 1948. I lived with my mother, father and brother (Ernest). I attended Calverley Church School. I played down in the woods most of the time, with my brother and our friends. My brother was a bully with everyone that he came across, especially me. He used to tell me to climb down the Quarry to help him collect birds eggs, I was only 5 or 6 at the time. I have lovely memories of ...see more
I lived in Wrottesley Park from around 1955. I lived with my parents after my dad lost his job as a farm worker at a farm in Pattingham. We were going to be made homeless after my dad's injury but we were housed in the park. My name then was Wendy Lewis. I had three brothers at the time and a sister. We were given a home at the bottom end of the park, the last one nearest the road, My dad got ...see more
My name was Lynette Evans
I’d just like to say hi to everyone that has shared memories of Splott.
I remember so much, so clearly, I was barely 3 years old when I moved from Llanharran to Portmanmore Road. It was a supermarket directly opposite the fish & chip shop owned by Greeks.
I'd like to pay my respect to a family that can't write their own memories; maybe this will jog somebody’s memory. In ...see more
I have very fond memories of spending lots of weekends with my nan and grandad in their caravan which was on Sun Valley, Marsh Road, Rhuddlan. I used to be friends with the owner's daughter Linda, as we grew up we used to listen to the music in the club room and dance on the outside balcony, if I remember right they lived in a little bungalow on site before moving to a larger property in Rhyl near to where B&Q is now.
I just wanted to let you know there is a fabulous watercolour for sale on ebay of Mulbarton. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Watercolour-16cmx9cm-Mulbarton-near-Norwich-Norfolk-Marjorie-Lewis-/180742890082?pt=UK_art_Paintings_GL&hash=item2a151da262 many thanks
Reading Gwynfor's memories, reminded me of my childhood in Esgairgeiliog . I lived in 'Awelon' or as commonly known 'Yr Efail'. The blacksmith's forge was our wash house and above was my father's workshop. A few years ago my wife and I had the pleasure to be shown around by Julia. What a fantastic home she and her husband had created, and what an excellent book she has also written.
I was born in ...see more
Hi, as a kid me and our Mick would be look outs for workers from Camel Lairds playing pigeon toss for pennies. At the side of the building to the right of the tunnel we lived in the Abbey Buildings and the tunnel area was a play area for us kids, we would play in railway sidings to the right of the pic. We would play on the gardens at the front of the tunnel, it was so different in them days. We would watch ...see more
I lived in Austrey Lane about a half mile from the village. I went to Newton Regis school starting in 1947 and leaving in 1953. When I started school the headmistress was Mrs Rose. I remember her vaguely as a kindly and motherly person. I don't think the school had very high standards then but they improved when Mrs Crook became head. This would be ...see more
My family lived in Kinellar (Blackburn) before we emigrated to New Zealand in 1959. My sister and I went to Kinellar School, and my Dad, Bob Forbes, also attended the same school when he was a lad and has often talked about his schooldays there. I still have my Primary II report card and I remember my teacher Miss Brown and the Headmaster (or Dominie as it's called in that part of the world) was Mr ...see more
We moved to Bletchingley in 1958 [then spelt Blechingley] to no1 Church Walk [my mother named it Obberds]. I remember Selmes the Butcher and the animals being unloaded for slaughter, horrible. My dad and I would go fishing on Sunday mornings and catch pike which would be wieghed on Selmes's scales and then consumed by us for Sunday lunch! We owned nos1, 2, 3 and the old works where my Dad [Clyde Willats] ran an ...see more
eve udil ann robert barnes were married he was the first toy boy they were really happy driveing their 25d david broun i lived there untill 1968. george widden used to catch badgers and eat them. there were many strange people in bothenhampton the likes of colin webb mr gordon holt and grinter the buglers etc i moved to canada where there are people but none as nice as the people from bothenhampton
I lived in Mos Bank from age approximately 2 1/2 to about 10 years old then moved on to Frederick Street - finally moving to NYC in 1961. I have very fond memories of living there with my five siblings and being close to farms once you got past the chemical works ... ICI I believe. Very fun times around the Tanhouse Train Station ... the local chippy's and the Widnes Baths ... all are sweet memories.
I remember playing football at your old school with the boys of Crouch End Junior School, and using the British Restaurant next door at the YMCA in 1945.
As a 10 year old, I moved with my parents to 90 Middle Lane 1938, which is now demolished. I remember watching the firework displays at Alexandra Palace. I was evacuated to Cornwall in 1938 with Crouch End Junior School, returned in 1941, went to the the senior school, and lived in Tivoli Road next door to the school. I remember the headmaster's name - Mr Chapman - he liked using the cane, and Mr ...see more
Warnham Court School had many special memories. If you are the Joyce I remember then I will enlighten you with what I remember. I have memories of Peter Stoodly and Roy Crump fighting over your affections after a night out at the theatre in Littlehampton. Good minibus ride back remember. I think you were very good friends with Louise Hume at the time who was dating Larry Eden. Other names I remember are ...see more
Not a memory, but I discovered my great great grandmother Mary Antcliffe was sent to prison for the murder of her stepson Joseph aged 18 months. She was accused of beating him to death. There were several neighbours mentioned in the news reports. Mary -the wife of Joseph Keyworth Ann -the wife of Charles Cartwright Maria -the wife of Thomas Wright, carpenter Mary -the wife of Robert Cawdwell publican, mother of Maria Wright.
I left Caerphilly in 1955 to join the Royal Airforce. Prior to this I worked for AJ Marshall Wholesale Confectioners in Castle Street. I went to school at The Twyn Secondary Modern as it was then known. I remember coming on leave and having a few pints in the Clives Hotel, on leaving I took the short cut to Nantgarw Road via the Castle fields but unkown to me the moat had been filled so ...see more
My family moved from Haslingden to Newchurch Road in 1950 opposite the Farhome Tavern. As an eight year old I attended Western Junior School until 1953 leaving to attend Blackthorn Secondary Modern until June 1957 when our family moved to Morecambe. After school walking home in the Bacup direction I passed several shops and Stacksteads Station standing back on the right. The next main landmark was the ...see more
I owned a large picture of 'The Haywain' which for many years hung on my living room wall. During the 1980s I was lucky enough to visit the cottage and it was like walking into the painting; it was magical!
I was at Langley Residential school between 1956-1958. Does anyone remember Dorothy Kathleen Speakman, a skinny 8 or 9 year old?
I remember being able to buy soap and talcum powder and sweets from the school tuck shop on a Saturday morning, trips to Ilkley moor and Mum only managing to visit once a month.
I remember being in trouble after only a week as some of us girls stole into the boys' dormitory after midnight (just for a dare of course, we were only very young).
I remember the Sugar Bowl very well as I used to swim there. I was a boarder at Red House School further down the Brighton Road, does anyone remember that? Best days of my life (another story), Walton on the Hill for Boys' Brigade, Sugar Bowl for swimming, oh yes, as we all seem to say, if only I could turn the clock back and it's so true!
I remember being in Heswall Hospital at Christmas and a Nativity scene being in the entrance to the ward. I used to sleep on a wooden 'Nelson' to help drain the mucous from my infected lung, with the bi-fold doors wide open for the fresh air, we had apricot jam sandwiches for tea, and to this day I dislike apricot jam. The older girls used to bath us. I must have spent quite a few months there, after being in ...see more
I remeber the old canteen, playing on the old factory site, and I remember the lorries parked there full of dead cows from Lidgates (stunk like hell). I remember when it was just fields all around, the old Shell garage was just a wooden shed with old pump. No Shenstone Colse or Whitnash and so on.
My name is Peter Brightman. I lived in Cambridge from 1974 till 1978. I worked at P.O. Reeds in Trumpington Street then Croppers hairdressing. If anybody remembers me I am on Facebook. My email is: bpeterbrightman@aol.com
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I wonder how many people from Chalfont remember the "Rose and Crown", a Benskins pub. My father owned it from 1946 until 1950. There was also the “Kings Head” which was on the corner of Joiners Lane. Of course if you look for them now you won't find them, the area is covered by the dual carriage-way and round-a-bout. At this time the village had hardly any cars going through it. My ...see more
It breaks my heart to see how the years, short-sighted councillors and rapacious businessmen have ruined this once noble and beautiful seaside resort.
How could anybody have countenanced destroying this view for the ugly, noisy smelly and shabby fairground rides that have replaced it?
Up and down the terraces and promenades of the north beach what were once gardens, putting greens and other ...see more
The Blackburn family. Hi, my grandparents lived in Forcett all of their married life and brought up four children there. Milly was the oldest, she was my gran's daughter from her first marriage, the surname was Swann. Then she met and married my granddad and had three more children, David, Joan and Alexander who was my dad. He married my mum (Stella) from South Africa. l remember many happy hours playing in front of ...see more
I have a Book of Common Prayer with Hymns presented to me on Jan 17th 1949 with the inscription "From Daddy to Eileen". On the same page dated 1910 is the inscription " Presented by the Church Army for Essay Writing at Hothfield Kent". It was obviously very precious to him and I wonder if anyone can give me any information about it. My father's name was Frederick Harold Webb who was born in 1896, in Canterbury, and ...see more