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My father was born in 1927 in Maple Cottage, Balcombe. The Maple Cottage then was not the Maple Cottage now - does anybody know where it was situated in 1927? His mother was Marjorie Hunt but she did not ...Read more

A memory of Balcombe in 1920 by Ann Harding

This is where my father (1924) and grandfather (1896) were born, their cottages were just round the corner slightly further up the hill, Gt Grandfather (1844) rented 2 cottages for his family of himself, his wife and 9 ...Read more

A memory of Hertford in 1920 by Marilyn Taylor

My Mother (know as Betty Scott in those days) who is now 91 lived at The Saughs (Saughs Cottage now) from 1923 to 1936 (ish)  - probably aged 3 to 17. Mum was a foster child and went there to live with "Auntie" (Christine Hunter Mc ...Read more

A memory of Ochtertyre in 1920 by Joyce Rawlings

My father was born in 1922 at Coleford Farm Cottage, Mytchett, Frimlet, to his unmarried mother Hilda May Hockley. She married my father's dad a month after my dad's birth. My father's name was Henru Reuben Fisher. My dad's father ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1920 by Marilyn Heath

My Grandad was born in one of the cottages in this picture and it was lovely to come across this photo as the cottages are very rarely seen.

A memory of Horsham in 1920 by Kim Mc Intyre

My mother's aunt, my great-aunt Annie was the house keeper at Brambridge during the 1920s. My great-uncle Ernest, great-aunt Annie's brother, was the chauffeur and responsible for the running and ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common in 1920 by Joan Russell

My father was the post man in Hamble in the 20s. He was born 1913.Just before he died at the age of 90 I took him back to Hamble.He remembered most of the names of the people in the cottages ,he showed me the two trees that him ...Read more

A memory of Hamble-le-Rice in 1920 by Adrian Vare

Does any one know who owned or lived in Daccombe cottage from about 1919 onwards. My granddad Alexander Murray lived there with his wife Ethel and her 4 children from a previous marriage. Alexander was discharged from the army ...Read more

A memory of Daccombe in 1920

My father's grandfather Mark Gadd Lowman was the landlord of the Railway Hotel now Culm Valley pub in 1917 which stood to the right of these crossroads. Mr Evans the station master used to let my dad, Frank Wheller, open the gates for ...Read more

A memory of Culmstock in 1920 by Suzie Wheller

Before emigrating to Australia in 1927, my uncle Michael Samuelson (1898-1975) lived for about a year in Rosgill and made a living taking farmers' eggs to market. On leaving England, he was given a photo of the Bellas sisters ...Read more

A memory of Rosgill in 1920 by Maurice Samuelson