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Hi, I went to RWS in 1957 but` was only there for two or three terms because I hated the place. My salvation was the friends I made there and the music teacher who was very kind, with whom I had piano lessons. Miss Edmed was the head ...Read more

A memory of Sawbridgeworth by susan.rouse1

I was born in Bromley, Kent in 1940.My childhood was spent alternating between my mother and father's house called, from memory, either Stafford or Stratford House, on the right hand side proceeding from the Chestfield ...Read more

A memory of Chestfield by Graham Smith

Hi There is a book on Amazon Kindle called, THE PIT BLOCKS, By Agnes Kirkwood, for two pound five pence. It is all about a family living in the Blocks in Fallin. Hopefully it will brings a lot of memories back to all the ...Read more

A memory of Fallin by Agnes Kirkwood Martin

The current fad for destruction of our lovely landscape and English and Welsh countryside has to stop! When I first came to Rockfield many years ago (from the Forest) it was a long way from Monmouth, now the suburbs ...Read more

A memory of Rockfield Park by Justin Grant Duff

I Join the Railway In the summer of 1953, my Aunt and Uncle were staying with us for their holiday. It must have been my Uncle who first spotted the advertisement in the Dartmouth ...Read more

A memory of Kingswear

Lived in Masons Avenue from 1959 to 1967. My aunt worked in the Poplar stores in the High Street. I can remember being fascinated as a child watching them pat the butter into small blocks in Sainsbury's and their ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone by hazeyann

Pakenham...The only village in England with both a windmill and a watermill ! My daughter was born in Pakenham in the worst snowstorm in living memory. She was Christened at the Parish Church which stands next to the Vicarage which has a ...Read more

A memory of Pakenham by frank.holmes26

Dewhurst Butchers By Donald Jay. I started Butchering at the age of 12 in a local butcher on Colne road in Burnley called Harrison Brothers. When I left school at 14 I went to work at J H Dewhursts in Scotland Road Nelson. I ...Read more

A memory of Nelson by Donald Jay

I was born there in 1957 and lived there until 1975. Rhodes had those lovely handmade sweets. There was a Delicatessen next door..always had a lovely smell of roasting coffee - and fabulous wheels of Brie.. The reindeer pub ...Read more

A memory of Northwood

We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by grahamleeper1