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We lived at Lower Cranmore Farm, I remeber starting in the village school when I was 5yrs old, it was quite a long walk to school, people were allowed to let animals run loose on the common in those days, I remember the Frankhams ...Read more

A memory of Heyshott in 1947 by Eileen Heel (Nee Read)

Does any one remember me? My name is Robert Cox. I lived at 47 Sheridan Road right next to the lane that went down to the tip (now built on). I went to Upper Horfield School and I still remember my first day at the school in ...Read more

A memory of Horfield in 1967 by Robert Cox

My warm and cosy memories of these formative years of my childhood whereby most if not all of the village children as well as attending the village school under Mr. Joseph Burns and Miss Offley was the uplifting ...Read more

A memory of Tilney St Lawrence in 1948 by Valerie Alcock

Hi, it looks like this house was set against the Corn Brook midway between Corn Brook bridge on the A4117 and Fairyglen which is downstream. The house is no longer there, but where it was, was a place called Enoch's Garden. We used to ...Read more

A memory of Clee Hill in 1974 by Patrick Warrington

Lots of memories of the MacCubban Shield Competitions with the Sandbank Troup - we won it several years in a row in the early/mid 60's - also the scout camps at Rashfield and farther away at Benderloch. The tasks we undertook such ...Read more

A memory of Dunoon in 1963 by Allan Melville

Maldwyn and May John of Rose Cottage, Cwmfelin Mynach, my grandparents on my mother's side, Gwenda Doreen Griffiths, eldest daughter and sister to Eleanor Linda Jones, Maldwyn Lesley John and Maldwyn Brian John. Brian ...Read more

A memory of Cwmfelin Mynach in 1972 by Emyr Griffiths

I live in The Netherlands. My grandfather was born in Pensford in 1858, his name wass Henry Flower. I am looking for his family (there was a lady of the bridge named Flower?).

A memory of Pensford by A.M.M. Vink Houtzagers

In 1955 I was 9 years old and lived at No. 16 Putney Hill, which was on the right in this picture and if memory serves was the house before the white one behind the tree. My grandfather owned the tobacconist and ...Read more

A memory of Putney in 1955 by Rod Chunn

I was the main weekday driver of the launch photographed during the student holiday periods of 1955-1958.  When I drove it, the name was 'Silver Stream'.  It was the largest of a set of three electric launches which carried paying ...Read more

A memory of Bedford in 1955 by Claire Allen

I used to have my hair cut in the barber shop on Bridge St usually before going to Saturday morning cinema. I also did a paper round for the newsagent on the bridge, the round was in Caversham Heights where I lived in Albert Road. ...Read more

A memory of Caversham in 1959 by Barry Woolford