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My Family moved to the house to the left of the school gates in 1957, before the school was built. I lived there until 1965 when I married and moved to the USA. My brother went to this school, and I used to cut across the field to ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Common in 1957 by Jill Trimble

My mum & dad along with my brother & me came to live in Fovant in 1952. Mum & dad owned the butchers shop in the village. My brother Brian & me went to the school, we both made lots of friends. It was a good ...Read more

A memory of Fovant in 1953 by Sheila Guilfoyle

I don't know why we called it Three King's Piece but in the mid 50's to the early 60's when I was growing up, that was what we called it. I lived in the flats in Armfield Crescent and when we went to Three Kings Piece we went the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1958 by Carole Baldwin

Around the year 1950 a coach would take all the children in our road on a trip to see Blackpool Lights. Those days they called the coach a charabanc.  Does anybody remember that name?  How happy all the ...Read more

A memory of Blackpool in 1950 by Brenda Vanderwert

As a young American lad I was posted on RAF Station Wethersfield, Essex in the late 50's.  I met a young lass through a English aquaintance.  This young lady was from Bradwell on Sea.  She was a young beautiful lady who ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell on Sea in 1959 by Gary Monteith

My Grandparents lived at Clearbrook, and as a child I used to spend nearly all of my Summer Holidays with them. I used to love going for rides on the train to Tavistock and Princetown. My Gran took me on a train to ...Read more

A memory of Clearbrook in 1955 by Sandie Seward

For a 9 year old boy from Edinburgh the travel arrangements for our family holiday to Dublin in 1958 were quite an adventure. Embarkation on the steamer at the Broomielaw in Glasgow and our billet turned out to be in ...Read more

A memory of Dublin in 1958 by James Mc Ewan

I was born in 1952, and went to Bragar School. The headmaster was Mr McIver and teachers I remember were Mrs MacDonald (Carloway) and Mrs Mitchell (Shawbost). I used to cross the road to the shop up the hill, and also ...Read more

A memory of South Uist in 1958 by Jean Mac Intyre

It seems this is the first memory to be posted. My grandparents (Florence and Max Vetterlein) had the Wheatsheaf pub for about six years to 1957. They were tenants of the brewers Charringtons. There ...Read more

A memory of Little Burstead in 1953 by Bruce Bagley

Is this the church where brides 3/4 length wedding gloves were hung from the rafters till they rotted off? Upper Clatford snobs born in a bucket christened in a tub!

A memory of Lower Ratley in 1950 by John Scott