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I was brought up in Ireland, but we spent a month of the summer every year with our grandparents, who lived in Frindsbury and, later, Wainscott. Going by the Maidstone and District buses into Strood, Chatham, Rochester ...Read more

A memory of Strood in 1960 by Siobhan Elam

I was Born in this Hotel on the 31st May 1968. My Parents, Graham and Anne Henderson were running it back then.

A memory of Bamford in 1968 by Nick Henderson

I am sorry to read some of these descriptions of your time there. Mr. Maddison, McTavish, Jones, Peart (GYM teacher) Wheeler ( Woodwork) and one who lived in between Grenville & Drake Dorms, I found very fair, firm yes, Mr Bowles, ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1950 by Brian Kirtley

As one who was born in Kingston Hospital before WWII, I grew up not far away in Long Ditton. My job in the late 1940s was to go to Kingston Market on Christmas Eve and buy a goose for our Christmas dinner from Follets, when ...Read more

A memory of Kingston Upon Thames in 1948 by Derrick Mallett

Ah yes, I remember going with my mother to Fishstrand Quay ice house to buy mackeral and crab. It was like a huge walk-in freezer with lots of large fridge doors and had massive latches on them with lots of ice ...Read more

A memory of Falmouth in 1960 by Derek Asquith

Hi, my name is Dot Dunn (nee Harmer). I've lived in Station Town and Wingate all my life and wouldn't want to live anywhere else and am still in contact with a lot of my school friends. I can still name ...Read more

A memory of Wingate in 1950 by Dorothy Dunn

Hi, My family used to holiday in a caravan on Ty-gynn (sorry unsure of the spelling) camp site, we holidayed there from the late 1960's to about 1974. The caravan belonged to the mother of a work mate of my late father, the ...Read more

A memory of Towyn in 1968 by Rosemary Sleigh

The bank's origins relate to Blackburn, Lancashire, then moved to Manchester where a later generation of the Cunliffe Brooks became a very wealthy local landowner. Opened an Altrincham branch on 7th April ...Read more

A memory of Manchester in 1870 by Trevor Jones

Ggg.grandad Worthy Tanner lived here in 1881 with his wife, Elizabeth and grandson Alfred Tanner. Worthy was born at Langley Burrell in 1804 and was an agricultural labourer all his working life. It seems that the Tanner name originated from this area back to 1566.

A memory of Kington St Michael in 1880 by Susan Bryant

Hi everyone, does anyone know if there are any early graves in Buntisham? I am talking of 1600 -1700 up till 1800, the name Lack. I know of quite a few in Willingham church, but also have details of births and deaths in Bluntisham ...Read more

A memory of Willingham by Pat Mason