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My Grandparents lived at Clearbrook, and as a child I used to spend nearly all of my Summer Holidays with them. I used to love going for rides on the train to Tavistock and Princetown. My Gran took me on a train to ...Read more

A memory of Clearbrook in 1955 by Sandie Seward

Hi all, Can anyone help with memories or anything connected to the great British company MacFisheries 1919-1979/80? I'm constructing a non profit making web-site dedicated to this long gone major company and any ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1950 by Colin French

Too much to say, so in brief: lived on Wolfe Road, played on Mousehold, fireworks night great and sledged on cardboard in the summer and sledge in the snow; watched the soldiers in Brittania Barracks and them lowering the flag just ...Read more

A memory of Norwich in 1957 by Gerald Wase

My grandfather, John Carstairs, moved to Whatcombe after partition in  Ireland. He had been Land Steward for Captain Cliff of Belle Vue, Wexford but was described on his death certificate (1931) as formerly electrician at ...Read more

A memory of Letcombe Bassett in 1920 by John Hallam

This photo, along with the other 4, attracted my attention because the thatched cottage on the left is where my father, Arthur Sidney Bentley, was born in 1926. He lived all his life in Barkway until his death in ...Read more

A memory of Barkway

[This photo shows Arthur Shackson with the donkeys in Clovelly - identified by Mr Graham Shackson in a comment on this 'memory'. Arthur Shackson was for many years porter for the New Inn Hotel ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly in 1960 by Kim White

I remember visiting the island on holiday, living with my Auntie Katie, my father's sister who had remained on the island. Her two sons, Jerry and Andy, grew garden potatoes on the hill and we would sit down to a big bowl of ...Read more

A memory of Easdale in 1944 by Patrick Munro

My name is Angie, I was in Warnham Court only for a short while, but I have lasting memories - the grey and burgandy uniform,and walking down to the deer park before breakfast. I haven;t yet found anyone that remembered ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1958 by Angeline Fowler Roberts

My Nan was Elsie Lavender and she lived in Glendwr Street. Elsie was born in 1921 to parents Ethel and Bill (William) Lavender. She had an older sister called Connie who passed away at the age of 21 years. She had a younger ...Read more

A memory of Abertillery by Claire Franklin

In 1938 my father was landlord of the Red Lion - I was just 6 years old but remember it clearly. I have a photo of my father standing on the front steps and the frontage is still clearly recognisable. At the time, all the lighting ...Read more

A memory of Horseheath in 1930