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I would love to here from anyone who may know of the Crump Family from Lucton in the 1900s. My father was George Crump who was born there. My Grandfather was Richard George Crump also born in ...Read more

A memory of Sarnesfield in 1910 by Lee Corpe

I was born in 1952 in Church Lane in my granddad's house which we all lived in, it had no electric or gas, only oil lamps as I know, I have still got one that my dad got new the day I was born, a bialladin table model, ...Read more

A memory of Carlton in Lindrick in 1952 by Alec Padley

I was born in number 11 in 1932. My family name was Clough. MY dad was known to most people as Sammy Clough. We moved to number 28 a few years later. My Grandparents lived at 24. My great aunt at 22. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Prescot in 1940 by Irene Turner

I was born in Lambeth hospital in 1936. My parents moved into Nepaul Road off Falcon Road. My first memories of the Second World War were the blitz and air raid shelters. We were not bombed out but the estate was saved by ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1947 by Edward Nicholls

My father was born In Dawley, John Leslie Millward, his brothers were Charles, and Leslie, and they were brought up by their grandad who was the village blacksmith, and Minister, in Dawley. I myself am John Leslie Millward Jnr, I ...Read more

A memory of Madeley in 1910 by John Millward

My grandfather was born in Cobham on Painshill. My memory is that it was on a slight hill with a slight bend, the Greenline bus used to stop near the old home, it was a cottage with a porch and had a very thick door with big ...Read more

A memory of Cobham in 1946 by Alan Rosher

My father, Emilio de Althaus, and my mother Blanca spent weekends in Ashby Close, property of the Lembke family. My father was a Peruvian diplomat in London and came ...Read more

A memory of Burton on the Wolds in 1940 by Miguel De Althaus

Elmore Court is a beautiful manor and ancient house with many acres of property which belonged to the Baronets of Elmore, the Guise family, since the 13th century. My great-great-grandfather, Martin George Guise, ...Read more

A memory of Elmore by Miguel De Althaus

My name is John Lewis. I was born in Blackmill in 1946 in a cottage on the mountain, lived in the village later, played soccer with my friends and in the early 1950s we all went and watched children's TV in Lloyds Farm. It was a very ...Read more

A memory of Blackmill in 1946

Around about l956/57 we would all go to dances or parties in Southampton and of course, from memory, the last bus home to Hythe/Holbury/Fawley/Calshot was about 10.30p.m. Inevitably we girls missed it so there was a mad ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1956 by Jeannette Lomas