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I was born in London, moved to Oak Tree Villas at Newton Poppleford in Devon at 9 months. Jean Bastin lived on one side and Brian Pring on the other, with Mrs Harrison the church organist in the fourth ...Read more

A memory of Newton Poppleford in 1930 by David Page

I can remember meeting my 'first boyfriend' David Harding when I was 14, and him buying me my first Welsh doll. And having lovely walks up the 'Grieg' and being able to watch the wild horses, and actually ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1860 by Margaret Marshall

This 1960s photograph of Bristol's Horsefair in Broadmead shows the two swish large department stores of Lewis's (far right of photo) and and its huge neighbour Jones. (Lewis's now John Lewis no connection and ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1953 by Paul Townsend

Back in 1980 I was a very young lorry driver at just 18 years old, and I would regularly deliver to a chain of shoe shops called Johnsons, one of which was situated in the parade of shops in this photo, and I ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham by Andrew Parsons

I was about 3 years old when I was evacuated to Newton St Cyres from Plymouth. I lived with a nice lady called Mrs Buchannun, I believe she was a retired school mistress. I can remember the water pump in the road. I was very ...Read more

A memory of Newton St Cyres in 1940 by Eugenie Crook

I was born in 50 Hopkinstown Road, right by the school. My name was then Heather Jones. I am now in Austraila, NSW. I have been back and it all looked so small and the roads. I was in the jazz band and was in pantomimes that my uncle would do, his name was Bill Price, and it was a lot of fun.

A memory of Hopkinstown in 1950 by Heather Segboer

I grew up at the Masonic Arms in Belle View, Shrewsbury. When I was a child my mother and I used to cycle to Bomere Pool near Bayston Hill to pick primroses in the spring. She used to tell me about the legends ...Read more

A memory of Bayston Hill in 1956 by Sylvia Ashton

Born in Northlands Drive, Pitsea in 1938, my first recollection was aged 3 years when I remember being put to bed in a cot under the kitchen table during an air raid. We had an Andersen shelter in the ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Mike Perry

I was a student at Clarendon between 1963 and 1966, and how I remember the Sunday evenings curled up before the fire listening to gospel and classical music before supper. Of course there were also the House ...Read more

A memory of Abergele by Glenda Davis

I am not a beach boy, even though we share a name. (I have not worked out how to create paragraphs,so bear with me.) My parents moved to the Beach when I was about 11 years old (around 1953) to Beach Road. We lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1953 by Brian Wilson