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Born and bred in Kerswell along with my 3 sisters and brother we were (are) the Nelson family of Carswells. Our mum Joan moved to Kerswell at the age of 3 months and was brought up in the bungalow of Resthaven on ...Read more

A memory of Kingskerswell in 1959 by Jan Vian

My name is Lindsey Lewis (nee Overend). I was born in Horsforth 1971 and my parents,along with my two sisters, moved to Clarke Street in Calverley from Bramley when I was two weeks old. We were the first occupants of number 21 on the ...Read more

A memory of Calverley by Lindsey Lewis

My parents Phyllis Bramley of Falmer Road and William Davis of 1st Avenue Bush Hill Park were married in St. Andrew's Church in the 1930s and both I and my sisters were Christened in St. Andrew's Church in the late 30s and early ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1930 by Roger Davis

My father Pip Prior took over the London Inn in 1940 and we onlyleft in 1950 because my mum had breast cancer .During the war he also ran a factory making cycles for the war effort our next door neighbours ...Read more

A memory of Braunton by rubylola38

My Grandfather grew up in Hall Green street next to his Aunt, Uncle and 2 cousins, who later ran a grocery shop together down there. Irene and Olive Eliza Roberts, 49 & 50 Hall Green Street. Does anyone have any memories of them ...Read more

A memory of Bilston by aprillegillard

I used to visit two ladies in Bradley during the war years,Arvind and Bessie Walker. Bessie taught me at Stonefield junior school and always rode a bicycle to school.When I visited her home she used to take me on the back of her ...Read more

A memory of Bilston by clarepstockton

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

I lived at Lane End, Bramley no 6 in the circle.  The white cottage in the picture use to have an apple orchard next to it.   Me and my cousins used to try and get apples before the old lady got out of her house but she always ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1964 by Sheilagh Daglish(Smith)

I have just found this site and was amazed at the photo of the Welfare Hall circa 1960. My dad, Henry Dilkes, and his great friend Sid Robinson were the mainstays of the pantos in the early 1960s, with Henry ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe in 1962 by Robert Dilkes

OUR HISTORY AS A COMPANY To get all the information I've had to go back to the very beginning, here goes. Sarah Ann Kershaw born 1855 married James Roscoe becoming Sarah Ann Roscoe. ...Read more

A memory of Little Lever by jmilly75