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This (downstream) side of the mill was a popular site for the Canadian Army stationed at Bordon Camp during the war. Almost every day they would be there with their lorries, tanks and motorbikes, ostensibly to wash the vehicles but generally to ...Read more

A memory of Bordon in 1942 by Denis Payne

My childhood was spent living in Cross Lane back in the days when it was rare to visit town, each community was virtually self sufficient with shops, at the bottom of cross lane, on the topside of the Baptist Chapel was Kilburns, ...Read more

A memory of Newsome by john.holmes83

I lived in Birstwith, not yet school age - 1952'ish - and have very clear memories of my short time there. My father's - Albert Wilkinson - job was to keep the mill water run free from weeds, our home was one of the ...Read more

A memory of Birstwith by jennifercdodds

In Nineteen eighty six I met a girl called Rossamund mills who lived on forest road in binfield with her parents and two brothers and their dog they lived in two Cottages converted to one .her mother was a charge ...Read more

A memory of Binfield by linenhall20

The nearer "pleasure boat" is the “New Princess Maud” , launched Spring, 1947, designed by Dallimore of Burham, and built of Columbian pine planking on alternate grown and ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea

I visited the old post office with my mother in the early to mid 1960's. I believe that my mother was related to the lady who ran the post office and the little shop, perhaps a cousin. I don't ...Read more

A memory of Farleigh Hungerford by joannafuterman

We add such a good time as kids living in the prefabs at pye green,playing in the woods making camps with the old trees and rolls of turf riped from the floor of the woods,this was in the 50s and 60s ...Read more

A memory of Hednesford by bbirch

My name is Mike Stoker I lived in Collingham for about 7 years from 1959 to 1966. I was born in Jimmies in Leeds where we lived for 3 years before moving to Kirk deighton for about 1 year. I went to Collingham school on school lane ...Read more

A memory of Collingham by micrussto

So many memories of Uxbridge - I lived in Cowley Mill Road - two doors away from The Black Prince pub run by Mr & Mrs Guest - still remember the smell of beer and the delivery vehicles. Then opposite was a bakers (first owner I ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge by lynnie.lw28

i started school in 1942 when I was 4 years old, and the school was then in one of the large terraced houses in West End Avenue, run by the two"Miss Tait"sisters. I remember having to go into some kind of ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate by mwlburton