Search Results

I lived in the house that was used as an orphanage for girls late 1890's to 1906. I have recently found out that it was called Laleham Cottage. It was situated on the corner of Rossiter Road and Ethelbert Street and ...Read more

A memory of Balham by brenda

I would love to know if this cottage still exists and if it does, exactly where it is. I have a watercolour of it from 1950s (or earlier), showing this exact view. I also have ...Read more

A memory of Studland

I went to a school called Fedsden Hall, in Roydon in Essex, in 1950-53. It was a wonderful place run by Mrs. Katherine Clare. Mrs. Clare lived in a big, beautiful Georgian house on the property, with her husband, who I ...Read more

A memory of Roydon by canadagoose

My great grandfather, Robert Stephenson, birth date 13 June 1853 was born in one of the Stony Heap Cottages, Greencroft, Happyland, County Durham. He was baptised on 17 July 1853, in Lanchester. His father was William ...Read more

A memory of Stony Heap by grabs

When my grandfather, Arthur Andrew Rush, proprietor of the Old Ship Pub in Aveley, died he left Lennard House and the surrounding land + two red brick cottages fronting onto Park Lane, to my Mother, Lilian Gough. Granddad Rush ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Peter Gough

Hi Laura, Is your cottage to the right of the passage way? If so, that was my first ever property. I bought it in 1976 for about £8000. Nigel

A memory of Child Okeford by nigel.cowsill56

I lived in Saxbys Garden Cottage in 1963 and worked in what was then called Gordon House - a Care Home. My friend Jo and I were there for 6 months only. It was while I was working there that I found out Gordon House was once called ...Read more

A memory of Cowden by carolbrunello

My parents and I lived in Addlestone, and when I was about 5 or 6 I had to have my tonsils and adanoids removed at the cottage hospital and not St Peter's. There was only 2 of us in the ward a boy about my age and myself, there ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge by ellen.thorne

When I was a little girl growing up in Norwood Green in the '60s, I can remember being sent over to the shops to fetch our daily bread order, a loaf of Mother's Pride in a red & white striped waxed wrapper. The parade of ...Read more

A memory of Norwood Green by susan-mills

Bill Millar Lived at 63 rectory cottages directly behind the old Jackson’s of old Arley Moved there in 1963 until 1977 Went to Arley primary until I was 11 then moved to Arley Herbert Fowler

A memory of Old Arley by argylljoinery999