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I am trying to trace a woman by the name of Lily Fox, born in 1938 in Ireland. We know a Lily Fox married a Derek Rose on the 7th March 1959 in St Barnabas Church in Mitcham. He was a carpenter aged 26 and she was a cashier aged 20 ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1959 by Geraldine O Connor

This is Southcombe Terrace, Axmouth. 6-13 Southcombe Terrace was designed by the architect Frederick Kett and built by Bert Warren around 1937/8 for the Stedcombe Estate. My parents, Rock and Olive Real, then in their mid ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1955 by Pauline Morgan

My maternal grandmother lived in Lovegreen Street from around 1900 until 1957 when she moved in with my family in Framwellgate Moor. Her name was Parkinson and I believe her house was the first one as you turned the corner into the ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1950 by Jean Watts

Teresa Clarke's memory reminded me of the flooding of Jan. 1953. I was 9 years old and living in Gwynne Road with my folks. We were boarding at No 44, owned by Mr and Mrs. Carr. They played Crib and he polished the brass in the ...Read more

A memory of Dovercourt in 1953 by Brian Reynolds

Mr and Mrs Smith lived in the first small house on the left as you go up the hill. When I was about 4 years of age I used to toddle over from Kenwyn which was on the other side of the road to visit them. There was an unusual ...Read more

A memory of Mawgan Porth in 1950 by Elizabeth Carthew

I am trying to trace anyone who has knowledge of Harold Bulter or his family who lived in Morley around 1957. I believe he could have lived on Albert Terrace although I cannot find this street when I visited recently. I can ...Read more

A memory of Morley in 1957 by Sarah Sinclair

As a young boy of 9 or so, living in Barton on Sea, sometime around 1952, I remember a ship washing up in a storm on the beach at Hordle Cliff. During the time before it was re-floated, the local youth had the opportunity to ...Read more

A memory of Hordle in 1952 by Edward Williams

Tree climbing was good fun in very large trees till it was banned when David Nash fell and hurt his back for a couple of days. Alarge tree opposite the headmaster's office had iron rungs to a top platform used for spotting approaching ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall in 1954 by Brian Parker

My first sight of South Harrow was when my dad ran a fish stall in the railway market in South Harrow, he worked there for about 10 to 12 years after which he bought a shop of his own in Alexandra Avenue. Coming ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1950

My husband's family were conned into selling their grandfather's cottage, he was the local molecatcher, John Henry Scott.(I wonder if he was born on the wrong side of the blanket! - as the name of the local gentry was also Scott.) The ...Read more

A memory of Bellerby in 1958 by Carol Steele