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I lived in Skewen from September 1983 to May 1984 - only a short time in my life but it made a big impression on me. My wife Fiona, new baby Siobhan and I rented a house at Caenant Terrace facing the railway and the mountain.  We had ...Read more

A memory of Skewen by John Mc Millan

I am a little bit unsure whether it was 1948 when my late  father, the Revd Peter N Longridge, moved from Sticklpath in Barnstaple down to Combpyne. Or maybe a year or two later. The list of Rectors in the church will ...Read more

A memory of Combpyne in 1948 by Richard Longridge

In 1943 I worked on the Great Western Railway and sent by them to Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire as a locomotive fireman.  It was here that I met a young lady whose home was Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire.  She also worked in ...Read more

A memory of Lower Heyford by Roy Newton

My brother Colin Lyall was christened in this beautiful church at the end of the summer of 1963. My parents, Val and Frank emmigrated to South Africa in 1967, with 3 small children. Robert (Rob) Jane and Colin. I wonder if anyone ...Read more

A memory of Tring in 1963 by Jane Mc Kinnon

As a child in the late 50's I used live in Fairfield Street opposite the Monks Abbey. Every day after the school day was finished at Monks Road school, I used play around the Abbey ruins and Fosters field as well as the ...Read more

A memory of Lincoln in 1957 by David Edwards

My aunt Doris Lacey (nee Allen) lived in Apsley Road, South Norwood. She started to lose her sight in her late 80's and therefore the pleasures of reading, watching television or going ...Read more

A memory of South Norwood in 1910 by John Howard Norfolk

We moved to Lyminge Close, Twydall in 1960 from our wartime built pre-fab in Wigmore when I was 15 months old. Pictured are the 'modern' post war shops but there was also an older red-brick parade opposite. Out of shot on the right of ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by John Fernandez

I was born in 1940 and brought up at the Anchorage in Tanlan. The warmest memories I have are of our neighbours in the little cluster of pre-war houses between Llwyn Farm and what became Woolley's Cafe. To be strictly accurate, two of ...Read more

A memory of Tanlan in 1950 by Ken Davies

Does anyone remember the annual circus that took place in South Park? We used to live in Clifton Road, and I well remember the animal procession going past our house as it made its way to the park, preceded by people playing ...Read more

A memory of Darlington in 1958 by Carol Byrne

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts