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I think this is Riffhams Chase not Graces Walk. This photo is taken coming from Danbury heading towards Little Baddow. In the distance ahead, the road bends to the right to go up the hill, with the National Trust car park ...Read more

A memory of Little Baddow by Alison Fell

My Grandmother lived in Yew Tree Cottage, The Ryse Hatfield Heath with Bob Challis. I was a little girl growing up in London, and would visit at Weekends and school holidays. Uncle Bob was a stockman on the farm but later due to ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1965 by Jane Puddephatt

Sutton in Ashfield History I am writing a book that follows the First World War experiences of my Great Grandfather, Albert Edward Wingrove. He used to have a Off Licence premises at 58 Outram Street in ...Read more

A memory of Sutton In Ashfield in 1910 by Andrew Winrgove

Hello. Just been looking at some of your letters. I remember Jack Hopes farm in Norton, my mate worked for him for many years and also Mr Clowes. I do remember him, I worked down Askern pit and I ...Read more

A memory of Askern in 1964 by John Lancaster

I was born in Wallace Street, Dumbarton, August 13th 1959 in my grandparent's (Andrew and Mabel Aitken) house named "Bourtree". My other grandparents (Jim and Margaret Brash) lived directly across the road in their house ...Read more

A memory of Dumbarton in 1959 by Gordon Aitken

I was sixteen and my brother did the food for the Queen and all the MPs he got to meet her! I got so close I could touch her - it was the most fantastic day - followed by street parties that seemed to last forever.

A memory of Mansfield in 1977 by Jackie Palmer

I would like to contact anyone that resided as a child at the above (The Cedars) between the years 1954 to 1965. I have been told the building was demolished some years ago and any photos would ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1954 by Robert Ashley

I lived in Culcheth when I attended LGS .I uused to catch a bus, alight at Butts Bridge then walk along the canal towpath and enter the school grounds by the air raid shelters. Bill Major was the Headmaster, a man we all ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1942 by Fred Walmsley

My Grandfather and father carried out work at St Lawrence church in 1956, finding the De Trafford crypt ( Separate entry on this under Rushton Spencer Memories ). Thomas Meakyn was a 21 year old ...Read more

A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1980 by Rob Bailey

I was born in Branston in 1948. I grew up there until I was 16 when we moved to Lincoln. There was a waterwheel down one of the country lanes which was very unusual, in as much as that it was horizontal rather than ...Read more

A memory of Branston in 1940 by Alexandra Arnold