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With dawn breaking on a chilly early October morning we gathered at the bottom of King Street, we were going to spend the weekend picking " spuds" on Lou Issacs farm in Manmoel. There were three grades of pickers. ...Read more

A memory of Manmoel in 1943 by David Williams

We lived from the late forties until 1957 in the Council houses at Crookhayes, The fields behind our houses were numerous and we used to enjoy watching the cows gadding about. The hedges surrounding the fields were ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury by euphemias

If you look closely at this photograph 3/4 of the way down on the left hand side just past the lady in the white coat there is an old women in a dark coat standing in front of a stall. This is my grandmother Charlotte Delieu. She was ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich by j.delieu

I lived at 35 Nicholls St Ardwick from 1955 - 1964 I went to Ross Place Junior School and then onto Nicholls Secondary School for Boys. Friends I remember were Peter and Mike Galloway from Nicholls St, Colin Benson and his sister Pauline, ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick by ronmulligan0

One of the old houses - 'Gainsborough' was used as a doctors surgery in early 60's . the name lives on today with the Gainsborough doctors practice in Whitegrove Copse! Down a short lane off Church Road ( over the left shoulder of the ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell

I didn't live in the town itself; we moved to Gwencole Crescent from Burgh Le Marsh, Lincs, in 1963 after my father followed up a work opportunity, advertised in the local press by English Electric at Whetstone. He was ...Read more

A memory of Braunstone Town by Colin

Marden Park was the furthest extent of our cross-country run from Caterham School (Wapses Lodge) in 1951. We would leave the school, cross the Caterham by-pass, run on a bridle path between fields (which I believe, in 1944, were used as ...Read more

A memory of Caterham by druidh

To all it may interest: I have discovered among the effects of my late father, Roger B Vincent, of White Lodge, Hingham, Norwich, Norfolk, a letter dated March 8, 1947 from the manager of the Grenville Hotel, ...Read more

A memory of Bude by jravincent

My Grandad Jones purchased 141 Caerau Rd from 2 ladies following WWII - it cost him a grand total of 450pounds. The ladies stayed on and rented a back room for a while before Grandad had his father Oliver, his father's mistress Martha ...Read more

A memory of Caerau by bronwyn.howlett

I remember on family holidays we use to come and sit on the beach and make a hollow out of the pebbles and shelter from the wind. Also the shellfish stall - of getting cockles for me and oysters for my mum. Its exactly how I remember it.

A memory of Abergele by Lynette Foster