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My name is Carol, I was born in the village in the same house as my father, Albert Wilson, was and my brother Colin; we lived there for many years with my mother, Mary. I remember the teachers Miss Fox and a Mrs Shaw who used to live ...Read more

A memory of Adisham in 1962

I lived in Kenilworth Drive with my 3 brothers and parents, and our garden backed on to the OMT playing fields. I have many happy memories exploring this area including the old house and pond. The local area Home ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by John Mendham

Loftus in Cleveland I remember Slater's Banks, Primroses Violets, Cowslips rolling our paste eggs at Easter, Skylarks singing and Saturday Market shopping at the Co-op its butchers, shoe shop drapery offices ...Read more

A memory of Loftus by Sandra Welford

We were brought up in Wroughton and my dad worked at Burderop hospital as a nurse in the 1970s to the very early 1980s. We had a staff house in the grounds of the hospital. I have so many happy childhood memories of being ...Read more

A memory of Wroughton by Heather Turley

I lived as a child in Down Road, Alveston (at Barton Cottage - now demolished) from 1959 to 1964 and have great memories of Thornbury. Having no car in those days the family would march down the hill into Thornbury to Mass on ...Read more

A memory of Thornbury in 1959 by Paul Martin

Dear Readers, This is a brief extract from a book I have written called 'The Old Time' about West Wycombe and High Wycombe between 1947 and 1961 describing a day when we went over to Hell Bottom woods ...Read more

A memory of West Wycombe in 1953 by John Comer

I was born in Peperharrow Road in 1935 and still have two sisters living in the house where I was born. I went to Meadrow Central School. I swam in the Ginny, 'played' and grew up in the Charterhouse grounds and Milton's woods. I ...Read more

A memory of Godalming in 1940 by Philip Le Houx

I remember my great grandfather so well, I feel I could pen a book in relation to his life. He holds so many memories to me that are so very precious and times I wish I could have ...Read more

A memory of Stockton in 1975 by Jonathan Fitchett

I lived at Kirkham Abbey in a little bungalow called Sunny Side. It is no longer there now as it was pulled down. It was situated where the carpark now is for The Stone Trough. My mother and father in law lived in ...Read more

A memory of Kirkham in 1957 by Pearl Cook

What a 'Swinging Bridge' it was at Merthyr Mawr back in the 1050s! I don't know when it was changed to a 'solid' bridge, but how it ever survived the rough handling that we 'Cottage Homes Boys' gave it every year...Well! ...Read more

A memory of Merthyr Mawr in 1950 by Terry Evans