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My father, Stafford Brown, was a student at Beccles College during the First World War. He stayed with the Knights family of Puddingmoor. Mr Knights, who was a wherryman, told of a strange event that happened to him ...Read more

A memory of Beccles in 1910 by Barbara Brown

I am trying to compile photos of my ancestors' birthplaces - as they were and are now. Can anyone help in identifying the house number for a property know as Colwyn in Scratton Road, Stanford le Hope, Essex?

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1910 by Keith Ives

I have postcards of Long Marston circa 1914/15 sent by my grandfather while he was serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers (WW1) .On the back of one he has written "this is where we parade every ...Read more

A memory of Long Marston in 1910 by John Rick

My father was born at number 2 in 1911. My grandfather was a dairyman and would probably have worked at Parsonage Farm or Heron Hill Farm. All this is on my father's birth certificate. I imagine the place was on the ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1910 by Alan Squire

My mother in law Gladys Bidgway was born in New Street, but they all lived at what is now Londis in Mill Street, all 18 of them! Most of the girls went to work in the Glove Factory in Whites Lane. Gladys worked there with her ...Read more

A memory of Taddiport in 1910 by Glennis Spencer

The young lad on the front row of this picture, holding his hand to his face [centre of road] was my husband's Uncle Will. William Ambrose lived at Woodfield Road, Braintree but died in Gaza during WW1 age 21. ...Read more

A memory of Braintree in 1910 by Sheila Ambrose

I've never been to Glyncorrwg but my mother, Ivy Lillian Lyonson nee Palmer was born at Nythfa, Cymmer Road (the house didn't appear to have a number only a name) in 1915. Before their marriage, her parents lived next ...Read more

A memory of Glyncorrwg in 1910 by Ann Lyonson

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

I have never been here but recently I found out that my grandmother worked in Brackendale Road, the name of the house was 'Calder'. She was a cook there, I guess for some well-to-do lady. Can anyone help out?

A memory of Camberley in 1910 by Robert Fuller

My grandfather's, brother was in the New Zealand Maori Contingent (Company A), an ex-Gallipoli Veteran, he died of sickness and is buried at St Sebastions Church, Plot 1, B3430 Nine Mile ...Read more

A memory of Wokingham in 1910 by Koa Whitau Kean