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My family stayed at a farmstay in Payhembury in 1981. We have forgotten the farmer's name, but we had a great stay for days or so. My most vivid memory was of the farmhouse which had building styles going back to the ...Read more

A memory of Payhembury in 1981 by Richard Pittman

I went to school at Haughton Hall around the time I was 8 or 9. It was for a few years because our school had been burnt down in Madeley, St Marys .. what a spooky cold gloomy place! If ever I went to a haunted building ...Read more

A memory of Shifnal in 1985 by Louise Evans

This photo was taken from Western Avenue when it was a through road from Godington Road. Western Avenue was turned into a Cul-de-Sac when National Schools were replaced by new buildings in the 1990s and the road closed to through traffic.

A memory of Ashford in 1981 by Peter Oliver

I originally lived in Blackhills Terrace, Horden and went to Blackhills Road Junior School and like my brothers and sister went on to Dene House Comprehensive. As a kid I did not really venture a lot into Peterlee, probably if I was ...Read more

A memory of Peterlee in 1983 by David Cargill

In l984 my sister, Christine Ramsey/Taylor wrote to me at my home in Texas asking if I would like to share a holiday cottage with her and her three children. She had booked in at Cromer and had rented an old fisherman's cottage, ...Read more

A memory of Cromer in 1984 by Janet Ramsey

I had my tonsils removed at the Cambridge Miltary Hospital in 1981 (aged 8).  The only memory I have of this time is of a little girl named Yvonne Cherry who stayed in the bed next to mine, she never had ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot in 1981 by Tracey Barden

I remember what a facinating old house Duffryn House was.  As a teenage girl I remember having lessons in very ornate rooms decorated with wooden panelling and beautiful ceilings. The fireplaces ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1980 by Sharon Hawkins

In the late 1970s and early 1980s I attended Rosary Priory High School and looking at this picture reminds me what a magical building it was. I can remember sitting in the classrooms looking out ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1980 by Jo Griggs

I had my son in Little Thorpe maternity hospital in Jan 1985. Does anyone out there have a photograph of this building or do you know where I could get one from? I am researching my family tree and would like ...Read more

A memory of Littlethorpe in 1985 by Karen Surtees

It's nearly 25 years since the Earl of Strafford hotel opened in Hooton Roberts. I wrote an M.A. dissertation on Thomas Wentworth, the First Earl of Strafford after whom the pub is named, so I was naturally very ...Read more

A memory of Hooton Roberts in 1984 by John Tarttelin