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I was in pilgrims way childrens home in bower mount road Maidstone from age 12-15.it was a very strict regime but I liked it there. however we were made to go to choir practice every ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by Gladys Foley

My maiden name was Jenny Carpenter. My family (parents Chris & Gina, sister Katy) lived in Low Thatch (as shown) from 1987-c2000 when they moved away to Lincolnshire for work. During this time my sister and I walked ...Read more

A memory of Weston-on-Avon

I was born in 1948 and my Grandma lived at Brook Bridge House in Kilby. I can remember hating living in Industrial Huddersfield but only because I could not wait to get to Kilby for my weeks holiday in the summer. There was a farm in ...Read more

A memory of Kilby by puppyperson

Even though I was born a good ten-years after the second world war, Hendon was my home town. I loved it there. I attended Algernon Infant and Junior school, then onto St Mary's in the Downage. I always loved Hendon, but on a visit there ...Read more

A memory of Hendon

In 1941, shortly before my sixth birthday, I arrived at what was then a large branch of the National Children's Home & Orphanage, at Old Bramhope. To get there I had enjoyed an exciting (for me) train journey from Kings Cross ...Read more

A memory of Bramhope in 1930 by Peter John Ashman

I too remember Ends Place from the early 1970s. The old Dear (how rude) as you put it was Mrs Gregson who did not suffer fools gladly but only ever showed me kindness and charm. I would visit her each Friday lunchtime for a ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School by Carl Gaurd

In 1953 I was a boy scout with St Patrick's 17th Widnes troop when we had our annual camp in The Lake District. I remember getting off the steam train at Windermere station where there was an old single decker bus waiting ...Read more

A memory of Cockermouth in 1953 by Brian Balfe

I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense.  I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Belinda Heathcote

Another Pentraeth Memory. by Ross Davies Just about 38 years ago, I was approached by some of my former pupils, who were now mostly married and with children of their own, with the idea of forming a Pentraeth based ...Read more

A memory of Pentraeth in 1969 by James Griffiths

Hi On finding your memories pages I simply had to add my own contribution as my memories of Croydon and area are so dear to me. My grandparents lived in Waddon, just off the Purley Way, and I visited regularly on holiday, when my ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by Liz Griffin