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My great-grandfather was called George Darlow, he was the Head Gamekeeper to Lord Bathurst and often walked about the estate looking for traps that poachers might have set for the deer. My ...Read more

A memory of Coates in 1930 by Nita Hanski

See my memory under "What did you do in the war, Granddad?' This pic shows the point on the Wey navigation featured in my 'Giving up smoking' story. The barn where the heavy horses were housed is still there, opposite the 'oil mills'. It is now a visitor centre.

A memory of Weybridge in 1940 by Stephen Squires

Mary Ann Eve was from this area. She was my great-grandmother and joined her husband Robert Chilvers in South Africa after the Boer War. she died when I was sixteen years of age and I knew her very well. A feisty ...Read more

A memory of High Easter in 1890 by Susan Jones

I started working for the ministry (ancient monuments) in 1969 at South Wingfield Manor. At the time it was owned by two brothers, Sam and Bill Critchlow, who ran a dairy farm situated at the side of the manor, in ...Read more

A memory of South Wingfield in 1969 by Stuart Chambers

Being born in a house opposite the Angel pub in 1952, and having a family history going back over 300 hundred years in the village, I think we were a local family. Those memories of the school holiday times will last a ...Read more

A memory of Stanton by Colin Fordham

I was born in the police house at Norton, the 4th child of Nigel and Beryl Evans, in 1958. I loved growing up there next to the farm, now the Hundred House car park. I was always out with Uncle ...Read more

A memory of Norton in 1958 by Julie Hirons

I lived in the village in 1972 until 1980, everyone knew everyone's name and all the ladies of the house were known by 'Auntie', like 'Auntie Beryl' etc. It was a real village in those days and had ...Read more

A memory of St Hilary in 1972 by Robert Price

My mother, Evelyn (Evie) Smith and my sister Susan(14) and I ( Polly aged 9) visited for about a month with my Auntie Vi in Sutton Mandeville on our way back to the USA after living in Egypt for a year. Auntie Vi had a ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Mandeville in 1952 by Polly Harris

I was born in a quaint village in Nottinghamshire called Huthwaite, we moved to a farmhouse in Wrawby when I was 7. My aunt and her family moved there with us. We had great times in the barns, sliding down the hay, watching ...Read more

A memory of Wrawby in 1965 by Chrissy Walker

I attended Rowlett Road Infants and Studfall Junior School and Corby Grammar School. I lived in Irving Grove. I enjoyed growing up in Corby and I remember going to the dances at the Catholic School run by a lady named Nellie? The ...Read more

A memory of Corby by Lily Redmond