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I attended Embleton Infants School and Embleton Junior Mixed School which were structurally attached but otherwise separate from September 1957 until July 1963. At that time the staff were very respectable ...Read more

A memory of Southmead in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

My family moved to Handley in 1947 and I spent the rest of my childhood there. Our family name is Harris and my parents were Drs Paul and Zoe , they had five children. We lived off the road to Deanland. I never could ...Read more

A memory of Sixpenny Handley in 1950 by Nicola Campbell

My great grandparents lived on Sibsey Road, Toynton St. Peters according to 1871 census. Their names were Reynolds and Charlotte Wells. Reynolds was born about 1813 at Sibsey and Charlotte (maiden name unknown) was born ...Read more

A memory of Toynton St Peter in 1870 by Keith Ward

I was born in Godmersham in 1952 and lived here until 1972 when I got married .We lived in Eggerton lane at the far end . My Father worked for Godmersham Park estate and was head Gardener when he died in 1984 My mother worked at ...Read more

A memory of Godmersham by sparkykingsnorth

My mother s family lived on North row, the Sandersons, Grandfather Joseph and grandmother Phoebe, my aunt Rita, my mother Margaret, uncles Robert and Joseph, many happy memories of playing on the pit heap and going for ...Read more

A memory of East Holywell by Michael Bloxham

I wasn't born there but the years I spent in Rumford were some of my happiest. We moved there in 1960, my parents bought a house in the very centre of the village which also had a grocery shop attached. It turned out ...Read more

A memory of Rumford by Barbara Fisher

Though I was born in London in 1938 I spent a lot of my childhood at my grandfather's home, then when he died in 1946 it became my Uncle's home in Bryncoch. The address was Glasfryn 132 Main Road Bryncoch, the house was nearly opposite the ...Read more

A memory of Neath by jonjacley

The current fad for destruction of our lovely landscape and English and Welsh countryside has to stop! When I first came to Rockfield many years ago (from the Forest) it was a long way from Monmouth, now the suburbs ...Read more

A memory of Rockfield Park by Justin Grant Duff

Interesting to see Windermere Avenue mentioned. I lived at #57 Windermere from 1941 until I married in 1957. When we moved in and throughout the war, our house was 4th from the end of the avenue - the others were built after the war. Our ...Read more

A memory of Elm Park by eewatts

I wonder if anyone might remember my father who was a teacher in and around Worcester for many years. He began his career at a primary school in Claines, probably in the late 1940s. Thereafter he worked at St Paul's Secondary, in a ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by gerr.quinn