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Although our family surname is Norfolk we all came originally from Yorkshire! Great-Grandad was James Henry Norfolk who was born in Dunkeswick, near Harewood, in ...Read more

A memory of Potternewton in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

I just got a nice colour postcard showing the Red Cross Hotel. It shows the name of the hotel as"Deverall's Family Commercial Hotel", whereas the Frith photo shows the name "Reed's Family Commercial Hotel". The postcard was sent in ...Read more

A memory of Crowborough in 1910 by John Marsh

My late mother told me that she was related to Miss White, daughter of the Rev. Richard Walton White. His daughter left the manor and or land to Captain Macpherson in 1911. Although we have no claims on this family, we have no ...Read more

A memory of Shalfleet in 1910 by Sylvia Ross

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 ...Read more

A memory of South Norwood in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

In former times the village blacksmith was an important member of the community. Horses were the main form of motive power for both transport and agriculture, and the skill of the blacksmith in keeping horses well shod and farm ...Read more

A memory of Merrow in 1910 by Julia Skinner

My great grandmother, Cecelia Mary Gore, b. 1887 - the grand daughter of an earl, eloped with a gardener, Albert Reynolds, in the early 1910s. They married, had four children. Win, my grandmother was one of them, Albert a ...Read more

A memory of Thakeham in 1910

My mother went to St Polycarps school from 1913 to 1914. The address I was able to find from the schools archives where they lived was firstly at Beech Villas, Park Rd, Farnham and then Figgs Yard, Long Garden Walk. I ...Read more

A memory of Farnham in 1910 by Margaret Hughes

Bostons second cinema to open was the New Quay Picture-House was situated in the High Street, opposite Van Smirrens tower building which still stands today. The New Quay was opened on Thursday 29th January, ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1910 by Maurice Brader

When my Mother passed away in 1999 I had the unhappy task of clearing out her Warden Controlled little flat. Amongst her possessions I came across an old history project I had done at school in the 1970s for which ...Read more

A memory of Handsworth in 1910

Not really a memory, my great-grandparents were living at Gilberts Row on the 1911 census. I was hoping someone out there knew where it was. I have a photo of them outside the cottage. My great-grandfather was born in the village as ...Read more

A memory of Caunton in 1910 by Karen Beckett