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My memory is a life time!  I first came to Croft Farm, just above Lumbutts when I was 18 months old.  My dear, dear Aunty Kath and Uncle Geoff lived there then.  She was my mother's, sister's, sister-in law - so absolutely no blood ...Read more

A memory of Lumbutts in 1965 by Catherine Cowperthwaite

Sadly, I believe St Michael's Church is little more now than a ruin of it's former self, nothing like it was in the 1940's when it seemed to stand proudly on the hill watching over and protecting the small ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1940 by Thelma Hurly

I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford.  My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate

I was living in Sparnham House in 1960, but don't recall the umber mine you mention, though my father (Brian Baker) did say there had been one, once. Outside Sparnham there used to be a tap which was supplied by a ...Read more

A memory of Ashburton in 1960 by Lerida Arnold

The George Inn in Southwark was one of the favourite watering holes and eating houses for the young men of the accounts department of Borax Consolidated Ltd. in Victoria. In those days the serving wenches were all dressed in Dickensian ...Read more

A memory of London by Peter Wiles

Whilst I lived at Mattishall near Dereham in the early 1960's I became a regular visitor to the area in Summer and Winter, having use of a small boat at Burnham Overy Staithe. Fishing and full days out at ...Read more

A memory of Holkham in 1960 by Neville Orton

In the early 1970's I became a member of the Westwood Grange Country Club after my seagoing career was ended by a nasty incident at sea. The magnificent building, a former home of Lady Freda Leverhume, was owned ...Read more

A memory of Westwood Grange by w.vicroberts

Born and bred in Woodford. Had a paper round at WH Smith on the Woodford railway station. Not too bad in the summer but freeezing cold on the winter mornings. Sang in the choir at St Barnabas Church and receive 3 ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Green in 1955 by Mike Francis

Hi, this is a long shot. I'm trying to trace my family from Northolt, my aunt and uncle, Alice and Albert Priest; they have six children, Teddy, David, Jimmy, Annie, Trudy and Danny who will all be in there 40's to 60's now. ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by Bernie Brodie Browne

contrary to your statement under history, of the memorial, it was not placed in a field , theres no field there , its part of the dene on a popular and very well used walk down to the bathing hole where we used swim and parents ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert by David Leckenby