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Wow.. seeing this awesome photograph transports me back in time because in this year I would have been taking this very ferry over from the Southsea side after taking the trolley bus and regular bus from the North End in ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1955 by Dylan Rivis

In about 1961 my father became the manager of Blackbushe Airport. As a result my mother, brother (16) and I (9) moved from our comfortable town house in Cheltenham to a large mobile home attached to, what was then, the ...Read more

A memory of Blackbushe Airport in 1961 by Nikki Mc Allister Freeman

I was born in Featherstone in 1956 and lived there until 1962 when we moved to Hampshire. My dad was also born there. We lived at 46 Market Street and my grandparents lived at 64 Featherstone Lane, on the corner of Gordon Street. ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1962 by Carole Steele

My ancestral relatives are listed in the 1881 Census as the proprietors of "The High Street George Inn" in Henfield. Walter W Welling (aged 50) and his wife Sarah Ann Welling (nee Smoker and ...Read more

A memory of Henfield in 1880 by Rebecca Day

Going ‘down the village’ pretty much referred to the stretch of Cove Road, between Hazel Avenue and Marrowbrooke Lane, where most of the shops were. Once upon a time Cove must have been the typical English village: two houses, three pubs ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

Surfing the net I came across this photo of the Queen Vic and the memories came flooding back. I lived in Morden and every Sunday evening I along with friends went to the Jazz club there. Mostly the music was provided by ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam in 1960 by Gordon Afflick

Our granddaughter Anna Norfolk stays with us each Tuesday and Friday starting with breakfast and we try to keep her entertained with things to do around our home town of ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I remember staying in the Black Bull, run by my grandad, grandad Lack. In the back garden was a huge willow tree and in one of the outhouses all the metal tops from the beer bottles were discarded. I used to sit in ...Read more

A memory of Willingham in 1949 by Anna Stearn

The low house was run by a lovely couple named Paul and Janet Parsons. The had a son Zach (Zacky Bongo) and a daughter, Tabitha. What a pleasant atmosphere they always maintained. Friends like the Parsons are rare and ...Read more

A memory of Laxfield in 1985 by John Ziv

Guy Fawkes Night could be quite hazardous, although I remember no one ever been seriously hurt, it was certainly a close run thing. Keith Bradley although not from farming parents had many relations whom were involved in ...Read more

A memory of Whixley by Nigel Ward Quick