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I remember walking through simister down cordy lane past warhurst farm on to pole lanepast the hills turn right up to back o the moss farm they had 50 cow's 100s ofpigs chickens Turkey's they grew potatoes and barely and Swedes in ...Read more

A memory of Unsworth by franciscaine7

My name is Frank Raper I was born in 1936 lived on Ravenscliffe Estate until 1961.Childhood days were great we were surrounded by woods and fields at that time their were no other estates in that area.Even though war war was raging in ...Read more

A memory of Bradford by Frank Raper

I was born in Askern Yorkshire in 1945. When I was 2.1/2 we moved to Bow That was where my dad came from. When I was 5 we moved to Myrtle Road Harold Hill. The buses ended outside our Prefab. After coming up Straight Road, the bus ...Read more

A memory of Harold Hill by john.skillett

Hi, my name is William John Maunder and I am 81 years old and my first memory of Turnchapel is the early years of the WW2 . At the time I was living at Crownhill at that time on the outskirts of Plymouth, today day near B&Q ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel

"Thieves! Bloody villains and thieves, that's all they are. Makes my blood boil. I can't kill enough of the sods... no Sir!" I hadn't the heart to point out that I was actually a lover of all birds for ...Read more

A memory of Lower Radley

I could easily be in the photo of people watching cricket at St Johns Park , Burgess Hill . I lived in the block of flats at the far end of the photo , behind the tall trees , from 1960 to 1964 . I was age 7 - 11 during those ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by keeperalallangardiner

My paternal grandparents ran the Bull Inn at Swyre from either 1939 or 1940 to 1950 Their name was Webb. They moved there from the outskirts of London where they had previously ran a pub in Caterham Surrey. My grandmother came from the ...Read more

A memory of Swyre

I went to forneathy in the eighties I remember light out at night not been able to chat I remember getting caught talking they put me in the library to face fire place which they told us that the two ladie that Owen the ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by margaretmcnelly

I lived in Wilton Lodge as a child with my family from 1960 to March in 1962. The year of the fantastically cold and snowy winter. The house was still in one piece although inside it had been turned into a few flats. ...Read more

A memory of Walton-on-Thames by francescagreen1952

I can remember this incident so clearly, the grief my Mother and Father felt , Many tears . I lived in Twydall Lane , My Mother at that time was a member of the Red Cross based in Chatham, and she attended the ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham by janette.gaggini