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I was born at Coullie Udny on 8th September 1941 in my grandparent's house, their name was Burnett and he was a grieve at Coullie. The Cottar House they stayed in is now called Burnett Cottage. I lived there for 17 years and ...Read more

A memory of Udny Green in 1941

I was born in 1949 and then spent the next 15 years living there or visiting my grandparents in Broad Oak Street. The house in Broad Oak Street forms a part of my identity. I remember every nook and cranny - the coal cellar ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1952 by Kate Melia Hooton

i went to school with one of the daughters who lived in this house she said it was very creepy. last year 2013 my son attended closeburn nursery with a little girl whos family are now living there and they said ...Read more

A memory of Auldgirth by Katrina Hair (Nee Vidovic)

Mr Father Charles Edwin Gillmore was born in Sidcup in 1942. He lived at home with his brother David Gillmore and sister Maureen Clarke also their Mother Florence Ada Gillmore ( Nee Eustace ) at 22 Alma road Sidcup, just down ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1972 by Neil Gillmore

I was born at 54 Herbert Road on January 21st 1940 a war-time baby although I remember nothing of the bombing raids that wrecked a number of the houses in the lower part of the road where the bus garage and the railway line ...Read more

A memory of Small Heath by Brian Buck

In 1982 we moved into the farm house. I was 11 and had come from a new house in Liss so this was a dream come true ! The oast houses next door hadn't been converted then and we had wild time as children making dens there. ...Read more

A memory of Steep Marsh in 1982 by Lucie Cragg

As children in the 60s we used to be taken by our grandparents to Abinger Hammer sometimes on Sunday afternoons. Even if we'd been playing on the green and messing about in the stream we had to look after our ...Read more

A memory of Abinger Hammer in 1965 by Yvonne Appleby

My great grandad built these houses. My nan lived next door to the sweet shop always remember the glass sweet counter. lovely photo

A memory of Barns Green in 1980 by Jo Weller

I was born at Thornton house in 1942 lived around the corner in North Street next to The Bell.used to play in grounds of the ruined house at the rear.any of the Clements family still about ?also Robert Willis down the road.Scout master ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1942 by Bryan Elphick

I was born and grew up in Fowey 1930 - 1948. It was a small tight community in those days but often visited by "outsiders " who came on holiday. I went to Fowey Girls and Infants School first, and then having "passed the ...Read more

A memory of Fowey by Rosemary Freeman