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I remember Beech Hill very well as I lived over Glayshers Hill from 1958 when I was 2 years old - we couldn't get up the hill in the winters back then and my dad would spend ages trying to get to work. We ...Read more

A memory of Headley Down by Christine Passingham

I have lived in Shillingstone since 1977.  By default I seem to have become the village archivist. In March I was given 14 brass plaques, still in named envelopes, which were meant to be presented to ...Read more

A memory of Shillingstone in 1945 by Mike Weiner

I first came to Dartmouth in 1966 as a member of the Vancouver Boys Band. We were a 39 piece military style marching/concert band. All of us in the band fell in love with Dartmouth. We were hired to play for the Carnival in June and the ...Read more

A memory of Dartmouth in 1966 by Chris Best

We moved from Balham to Burgess Hill in 1956. My parents had bought 267 Junction Road and then proceeded to renovate the house as it was in a shocking condition. Both my parents worked in London so I walked to my grandparents' ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1959 by Fran White

I was brought up in Woodlands. My parents owned the Holiday Camp which they retired from in 1968. They built it up from 1927, the year they were married and gradually increased the size of it (on 7 acres) until it ...Read more

A memory of Knatts Valley in 1947 by Barbara Benedict Nee Mellor

I have just obtained a print of Sheringham promenade with a building on the left on top of a hill. I searched through these photos and came across the Grand Hotel - and that is the building in my picture. The date is 1890s. Does ...Read more

A memory of Sheringham by Valerie Bradey

I would sometimes go to Downing Street if I had a day in London but I always worked at Chartwell. They were very nice people to work for, Mrs Churchill never wanted me to leave, I can't remember why I did. Mother, ...Read more

A memory of Ledsham in 1930 by George Allen

My Dad was a copper and one day took me to the Gorse Hill Police Station where he was based.  He and the duty sergeant muttered away quietly hatching a plan to surprise me. The sergeant took me on a tour of the building, ...Read more

A memory of Swindon in 1959 by Graham Francis

I visited Carlton Scroop with my grandmother, Elizaberth Foottit. Her sister was Rose Helena West, they were all born in Hough on the Hill. Harrold Footit, whose memorial is in the church, was my great cousin. ...Read more

A memory of Carlton Scroop in 1948

My first introduction to Fairbourne I think was in 1953 (the same week that we heard that Everest had been conquered and the Coronation). As a child resident of St Christopher's Railway Orphanage in Derby, we went camping for the first ...Read more

A memory of Fairbourne by Peter Studden