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The post office in Small Dole (which was next door to the current one) was run by my mothers family the Sheppards. My grandfather Bertram Jenkins met my Gran Amelia Ruth when he was working as post boy, my Gran was living their ...Read more

A memory of Small Dole in 1900 by Peter Baker

When hebditch the builder built eskdale house in carlin how, its believed that a fireplace from upleatham hall was put into eskdale's hallway , the fireplace is still in situ and has a fire in it as I write . It would seem quite plausible , as its quite a grand afair !,

A memory of Upleatham in 1900 by Andrew Downs

I lived in George Road during the '80s and during my time there, collected old postcards of the area. Much later, I enjoyed locating the exact camera positions and taking videos of how the scenes appear now. This was one of the ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1900 by Peter Tietjen

My father, Leslie Blunden Gains, was born in 1909 (died 1987 in Redhill) and brought up by his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Blunden in Compton at Hillside Cottage. This was the address given on my ...Read more

A memory of Compton in 1900 by Wendy Cowen

In the 1901 census my great-grandfather, Matthew Wise, was a night watchman close to the Bank of England at 6 Lothbury. I had found my grandmother as a child of 4 living with her mother Matilda and family in Hackney, but as initially ...Read more

A memory of London in 1900

I suppose I'm cheating but I can go back a good way further than the 1900s because my memories are mainly my mother's and she was born in 1904 and lived in South Street. She used to share her memories with me like ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1900 by Constance Smith

My memories are a little vague but my family come from Tillingham. The family name is Hammond and my great-great-grandfather had a blacksmith's shop there in the High Street, it was there untill fifteen years ago but has now ...Read more

A memory of Tillingham in 1900 by Antony Hammond

These army quarters were demolished in the 1980s or 1990s and are in Blackdown Camp (near Deepcut and now part of Deepcut).

A memory of Deepcut in 1900 by Gordon Lumsden

My husband's grandmother Ellen Graham lived in Lazonby, she firstly married Reginald Calland, and had 3 sons, Reginald died and she married Thomas Graham. They then had twins, Thomas and Ethel, then in 1902 Johnathan my father-in-law ...Read more

A memory of Lazonby in 1900 by Heather Graham

Does anybody remember my Great-grandfather on my Father's sdie of the family, Police Inspector William Hole? He had a few children, one being my grandfather Walter Trevor Hole, another being Police Sergeant Harry Hole. I know ...Read more

A memory of Barry in 1900 by Caroline Scott