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My ancestors lived in Jetty Street around 1890 and at one time had a chocolate shop at No 8. Next door at No 6 was a shoemakers, I believe (now called Jacob's Rest). The family name of my great grandmother (Emily nee Newman) and great ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1900

This is not the lower high street at Wadhurst but the Flimwell Crossroads with the A21 passing from left to right and the road to Ticehurst beyond.

A memory of Wadhurst in 1900 by Michael Flegg

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

my father had always said there was a statue of an ancestor, after whom i was named, in chelmsford. as i live at the other side of the planet, new zealand, i have never been to check his story. but there he is. my father left ...Read more

A memory of Chelmsford in 1900 by Tyndal Atkinson

My mother (maiden name Joan Patrica Hubbard) is in her early 90s now and often recalls her childhood and early memories of Grimsby. She tells me of a picture with her father John ...Read more

A memory of Cleethorpes in 1900

My maternal family, Smiths and Meredith's, hail from the Pontypool area. My great grandmother , Matilda Smith (nee Meredith) lived in Waunfelin and ran a children's clothes/knitwear business from her house at the beginning ...Read more

A memory of Pontypool in 1900 by Alan Sage

The gentleman in the white printer's apron walking towards the camera behind the group of three men on the right hand side of the picture is my grandfather James Cannon (1878-1922). He worked in Hitchin at the printers, Paternoster and Hales, as a compositor.

A memory of Hitchin in 1900 by Greg Cannon

My grandfather James Britton was a sailing barge skipper. On the 18th or 19th of April 1906 he was negotiating passing under Kings Ferry bridge, linking the mainland to the Isle of Sheppey, this ...Read more

A memory of Kingsferry Bridge in 1900 by britpacific

My nana was born in Hackney in 1907. She was born to an unmarried mother in the Salvation maternity hospital for unmarried mothers on Mare Street, Ivy House to be precise. She stayed in Brent House mother and baby ...Read more

A memory of London in 1900 by Karen Surtees

John Belton who wrote the postcards was the son of John (Horsford) Belton who was master at Spaldwick mill in the 1901 census, he was my G.G.G Uncle. John H was the son of my G.G.G.Grandfather Benjamin Belton who's father was Charles ...Read more

A memory of Spaldwick in 1900 by Graham Chandler