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My father John Granville Turner attended Doncaster Grammar School in the 1910s. He was born in 1904 so would have started in the early 1910s, I assume. He was for a time a boy soprano at the school. He also ...Read more

A memory of Doncaster in 1910

My pop's father was the Percuil ferryman for the St Mawes Steam Ship Co. My pop was the youngest ferryman taking people from Percuil to the ferry. He was in the local paper in the early 1900s for being the youngest ferryman in Cornwall. ...Read more

A memory of Percuil in 1910 by Stephen Breeze

Ernest Dueck was the Vicar at Raughton Church in the early 1900s. My mother went to live with there with him and his wife (who was her Aunt Sophie). They lived in a beautiful Vicarage which ...Read more

A memory of Raughton Head in 1910 by Rose Marie Caza

After a time Mother married Charles Gamble, we called him Pop.  He left the Merchant Navy and went to work on the Estate for my Grandfather. We got a house at Ospringe it was next door to a water mill. The water ...Read more

A memory of Ospringe in 1910 by George Allen

I do not know Compton but lived as a child next door to a lady who was daughter of the local gamekeeper.  Her maiden name was Churchill, Hilda Churchill, with two sisters Mabel and Alice.  I have a watercolour ...Read more

A memory of Compton in 1910 by Mike Cowham

My Dad grew up in Portholland, one of seven children. There were five boys and the stories he could tell. The boys would go out at night and splash water on windows and the next day listen to the residents talk about the ...Read more

A memory of Portholland in 1910 by Sinclair Hugh

In 1918 my great gran's father Samson Roberts, a horse dealer, was injured during a horse race on the 'Golden Mile' near Aberkenfig. He died of his injuries at home in Dunraven St, Aberkenfig. His wife, Mary Ann, was a tiny ...Read more

A memory of Aberkenfig in 1910 by R K

Re: the Regent Cinema razed to the ground for a garage.  Before it was a cinema, it was... a garage.  Really, it was a coachworks called Twickenham Motorworks which was a coachworks.  This belonged to my grandfather, Jotham ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham in 1910 by Elizabeth Mann

It is not really my memory but something others may or may not remember. My mother's family came from Deeping St James - Sanderson was the name and this relates to a William Sanderson who was killed at the Peakirk crossing ...Read more

A memory of Peakirk in 1910 by Eleane Rhodes

Hello everybody, wish I had found this site years ago. My Grandparents Margaret and Christopher Clark, I believe were one of the first to move into 8 Buckingham Terrace in around 1909. He was a hewer at the coal mine, and ...Read more

A memory of Leeholme in 1910 by Lurence Clark