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My wife and I spent two months living in Melrose the summer of 2001. It was our home base as we travelled throughout the borders and the rest of Scotland. We chose Melrose for it's charm and convenience and rented Bow ...Read more

A memory of Melrose in 2001 by Al Short

We had the priviledge of staying in Muchelney during December 2007! What a discovery! We stayed in a beautiful cottage, had lovely hosts. As visitors from Africa, we experienced our first real heavy frost. The pools of water ...Read more

A memory of Muchelney in 2007 by Susan Neethling

Came to Minstead for a weeks break to help my wife rest and recover from breast cancer. Stayed in a very nice thatched cottage. We live in a village in Saddleworth that is beautiful, but Minstead the village the people and most of all the ...Read more

A memory of Minstead in 2006 by Philip Howard

Husband and I visiting from Battle Creek, MI USA. Cousin and wife living in Niton and took us all over the Isle. I took a picture in front of the 2 cottages with the church behind them. Your picture of the same site brings back great memories.

A memory of Godshill in 2006 by Andrea Stanley

My father was raised in Bowness on Solway. His father lived in the cottage in the street. My grandfather, Mr John Stafford, was one of the men who used to go 'Haafnet fishing' so it was good to visit and stroll down the same roads my ancestors trod.

A memory of Bowness-on-Solway in 2002 by Sandy Stafford

I bought the proerty named "The Gatehouse", being the timber framed buiding to the left of the gateway, in 2007. There are various records in the church archives which relate to the building being ariginally being built for ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 2007 by Bob Lodge

My wife Elizabeth and I had decided we needed to get to know the west Wales coast as our son David's fiancee Amanda was studying at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After a number of visits to Aberystwyth ...Read more

A memory of Aberaeron in 2001 by John Howard Norfolk

As the current landlady of Ye Olde Globe I am pleased to say that our lovely village pub still retains character. From what I have been told it became a pub in 1675, being converted from 3 cottages that were built in 13th ...Read more

A memory of Berrynarbor in 2009 by Karen Rudd

This building is still known as Tree Cottage, Old Lane, but the postal address has been changed to Barnston Road which causes a lot of confusion. I have lived here since 2002 and traced the previous owners back to 1851, but apparently the cottage is much older.

A memory of Barnston in 2006 by Jane Hetherington

My grandfather Edward 'Ted' Powell was born in Barmouth in 1908 and lived in Tai Croesion, Llanaber. His mother was Sarah and father Evan Ellis, and he had a sister Bessie. His grandparents owned the grocery store in ...Read more

A memory of Barmouth in 2005 by Gail Frederick