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One of the shops I remember well was Fosters. It was like a mini department store. We had some of our clothes from there. You could buy things and pay so much a week. It was how we lived then. It was quite ...Read more

A memory of Polesworth in 1960 by Marilynne Connolly

I attended Brockenhurst C.H.S. from 1950 until 1953 and lived in Sway with my parents. I was the first Amercan admitted to the school. I came across this site after feeling nostalgic and decided to refresh my memories ...Read more

A memory of Sway by Louis Klubenspies

Pip Parkinson's memories are so similar to my own that we could have been on the same holidays. I first went to Shaldon with my parents in 1952 and we returned for one week at Easter and two weeks in August every year for the next ...Read more

A memory of Shaldon in 1957 by John Toogood

My parents, Thomas and Lily Evans, made their first home in a tiny house called the Lamb and Flag in Llangynwyd, just above Cwmfelin. It was, and still is, the most beautiful place. My father worked down ...Read more

A memory of Cwmfelin in 1930 by Dulcie Willis

I remember going to the Mexican gardens at Worfield, I'm sure they were owned by Sir Oliver Lees and there was a Mexican band.

A memory of Worfield by Julie Roberts

Although I was actually born in Holbeach Bank, and spent the first 3 1/2 years of my life in Holbeach St Matthews, I spent my childhood in Holbeach St Marks. My mother and father Ray and Greta ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1955 by Alan Gray

My name is Lee Struthers. I lived in Horndon back in the 1960s with my parents and sister at Alwin on Hilcrets Road, we moved to New Zealand in 1968. I have just been back for a visit, July 2010, went to ...Read more

A memory of Horndon on the Hill in 1968 by Lee Struthers

My family spent a very happy holiday as guests of the Barnaby famly who owned the castle. About 6 years old, I recall being transported from the station in a Trojan estate car - a most innovative design at the time with its ...Read more

A memory of Bromyard in 1950 by Bob Perkins

Santa Lucia Hotel was owned and run by Marion Olive Barkway, better known as Miss Bee. Marion was my grandmother and we used to visit every Sunday afternoon to help out with evening meals. When I was small I remember standing on ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe St Andrew in 1984 by Andrew Barkway

My first memories of Salford are living at 40 Moorfield Rd - just down the road was Holy Angels Church. I went to the brownies there and remember doing the maypole on the green outside the church. I went to St Johns Primary ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1960 by Janet Durham