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As a boy i walked past the Dutch Cottage on my way to the high street , as a child i found it a bit eerie , i saw a small person coming out of there a couple of times which seemed to add to the afect . by the mid 70`s the cottage had ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh in 1965 by Eric King

We lived on the outskirts of selborne, my parents and three brothers and sister, at Lower Noar Hill Farm and Homestead Farm. My great-grandparents, grandparents and parents farmed the land between Selborne Common and Noar Hill for more ...Read more

A memory of Selborne in 1970 by Carolyn Waller

my parents owned the piost office from about 1958-1965 - their names were albert (bill) edward wild and dorothy emma wild and the inscription on the board read "AE and DE Wild" before they owned it , it belonged to Vera ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1960 by Vivien Hyde

At the age of nine, I had to come and live with my mother's parents, Albert and Emily Warner, at 3 Church Path (pair of cottages now pulled down, but their well - (what wonderfully tasting water, drawn up with a bucket) still remains now ...Read more

A memory of Ash in 1950 by Ray Attwood

This is the church where my grandma and grandad Kirby are buried. We recently visited the churchyard to place a wooden memorial cross on their grave. My friend of the 40's Norman Benson made the cross and had a brass name ...Read more

A memory of Millom in 2006 by Ian Jordison

my memories of tilshead ,well i lived there from1953 till 1968[from the age of 2 to 15 years old..every body seemed to know each other in the village ,a friendly small community as i remember .I first went to ...Read more

A memory of Tilshead in 1963 by Ken Dunmow

The concrete streetlamps only appeared in the mid-1950s. Before then, the street lights were puny strutures housing ONE electric bulb. Everything was very dark at night. You would think that all the motorists ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park in 1950 by Tony Kerr

1985 to 2008, fantastic times for bird watchers, lots of friends made, bill williams, frank, clive, john gerwood, the boys from bristol, all the rspb wardens over the years, anne and all the staff at the log cabin, all the ...Read more

A memory of Symonds Yat Rock in 1985 by Terry Arnold

I moved here with my Mum and Dad in 1953 for a year. My Dad was in the navy then,and served in the base there. We lived in Heather Cottage in the Clachan, opposite the Post Office. Mr and Mrs Macarthur owned the cottage and we ...Read more

A memory of Rosneath in 1953 by Nigel Holgate

I grew up in Heaton Mersey from age 6 to age 26 and left in 1955. This parade of shops included 2 Grocers- the Co-Op and John Williams- Fitchett's the butchers, a barber's and Edgar Barker the local Pharmacist who encouraged me ...Read more

A memory of Heaton Mersey in 1955 by Rene Sutch