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Hello, I am posting on this site because although I personally have no memories of Crook, I am seeking to communicate with older people or others that might have specific memories or know stories of their elders of the ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Nigel Marsh

During the war my uncle was in the army with a man called Bert Sprake.  When they got out of the army Bert opened a butchers shop in the parade almost opposite Plough Road.  I used to go into his shop and help him make the sausages.  I ...Read more

A memory of West Ewell in 1955 by Jackie Ferry

Eastry has a Roman Road through it but was also important as a place where we imagine important people stopped on the drive between Dover and Sandwich, the Cinque Ports. The Bull Pub on the left behind the trees, had a cobbled ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1955 by Michael Mitchell

My father, Kenneth Hollingsworth, took over the headship of the school in 1951 and I spent the happiest of childhood years both at the school and in and around the village. I particularly remember Coronation Day ...Read more

A memory of Monks Kirby in 1953 by Kathryn Hollingsworth

The day of Prince Charles' wedding to Lady Diana Spencer was declared an extra Bank Holiday so the dancers and musicians of Whitethorn Morris marked the occasion by dancing at pubs! We went to ...Read more

A memory of Elstree in 1982 by John Howard Norfolk

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs. Shops and services were limited but adequate. Village hierarchy although unwritten was arranged in a manner that ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

My great grandmother Eliza Clarke was born at the Plough Inn Norwell in 1866. Her father George Clarke was the landlord at the time.

A memory of Norwell in 1860 by Graham Barnett

My father Tony Wonfor was born in Hythe in 1932, his parents John William and Hannah Victoria. My grandparrents lived there until the outbreak of the Second World War. Tony had two brothers, George and John, and a sister Letty. John ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1930 by Colin Wonfor

Plough Corner always makes me smile, remembering the floods in the 1960s, Byfleet was cut off everywhere except where I lived in the Dawson Road end. My boyfriend lived in Rectory Lane. Imagine, everything was cut off, there was water ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by Christine Woodruff

I was born in 1938 but came to live in Denham in 1948.  My dad was then the local Police Sergeant, Sid Smith and my mum, Hilda, was a member of the Mothers' Union and Women's Institute.  I remember going to school on Cheapside ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1948 by w.m.smith