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I remember in the 1960s a little shop in Greenfield road run by Captain and Mrs Delano Osborne. I only vaguely remember the Captain, he died about 1957, but his wife carried on and died in 1969. My Grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Holywell by johnhaycock004

My Mum, Myrtle Harrington worked at clipped hedge when I was a child. She worked with David Bird, Michael Bird? My dad was Fred Harrington who worked at Corringales farm (Little Hallingbury Park,) The Parkinsons lived ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath by lindaandrews01

I spent the first 25 years of my life from 1943 to 1968 growing up in Kings Avenue New Malden. I went to Burlington Road School and at one stage was taught by Mr. Cook. His discipline was renown for the use of the board rubber and pulling ...Read more

A memory of New Malden by John Rowley

I remember many happy summer holidays in East Grinstead. My grandparents bought a cottage with a large garden in Hermitage Lane, and opened it as a market garden named Uplands Nursery in about 1950. My grandfather, Major Braga ...Read more

A memory of East Grinstead by John Braga

My grandparents William Joseph Hughes and Edith May Hughes nee Moore are both deceased now - they grew up in Llanbradach . I have a wedding photograph of them aged 18 getting married in the late 1920s in the ...Read more

A memory of Llanbradach by elainemarianne19

I was born in Woodland Road in 1948. The houses were brand new. I used to watch the builders from Dates going up the road to work on the houses at the top. I would stand on next door's doorstep and swear at them as they passed. My ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by Noel Taylor

I was born in 1919 at Bifrons Lower Lodge Gate, which at that time comprised two dwellings. The part we lived in had been a school provided by the Marquis of Conyngham for estate children. It was shaped like a letter T. The ...Read more

A memory of Patrixbourne in 1910 by David Alexander

My great Aunt Harriet 1892-1981 was employed as a nanny to the Whiteleys in Cossington in 1913. I inherited some of the post cards she sent home to the family. The Whitelys lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Cossington in 1910 by Pat Roberts

In 1885 a Tom Gascoigne was baptised in Christchurch in Harrogate. His parents were Thomas John Gascoigne and Florence Nightingale (nee King). The address given on the baptisal certificate is Clarendon Hotel, Harrogate. Thomas is ...Read more

A memory of Harrogate in 1880

My parents moved from Hackney East London to Orchard Road in 1958, I was two years old. Orchard Road connected to New Road by way of a pedestrian break in a hedge between the two roads, New Road was unmade in those early days. A ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield by michaelyoules