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Browsing Ampthill, for the first time, I came across the above photo.  On the left just above the logo is a shop blind that used to protect the meat in the window display from sunshine (when it appeared).  That blind was the bain of ...Read more

A memory of Ampthill in 1952 by Paul Guyton

I lived in lovely Lower Slaughter in 1991 along with my children's father.  How we came to live in such a beautiful place was pure luck.  We had applied for jobs in nearby Adlestrop and with the jobs came accomodation, Manor ...Read more

A memory of Lower Slaughter by Jane Mac Callum

I was born in 1931. During the war I spent about 1 year in Walkford, at the home of a great aunt in the village of Walkford. The maternal ancestry of my family is in Walkford. My great aunt had a house on I guess the Ringwood road. ...Read more

A memory of Walkford in 1943 by Patricia Hardwicke

Elias and Polly Owen came home from Shanghaiand lived at No 3 Elwy Viewand Iwas able to aquaint myself with all my St. Asaph family and see them for the first time, she only lived a few months and then Elias packed up and ...Read more

A memory of St Asaph in 1946 by patriciahughesbrynymaen

My older brothers were sent to Addingham during the war(WW2). They are trying to trace other people who came to Addingham and/or people who took in these children to their homes.

A memory of Addingham in 1940 by christine.g1

We were clearing the last furniture from my mother's bungalow a few weeks ago. A heartbreaking task, having lost her in April. Behind the last set of drawers, on the floor, I found an old sepia photograph. It showed a group of ...Read more

A memory of Pymore by Veronica White

there is a white bridge in Glyn Ogwr but there was also one in Gilfach.It stretched from the bottom of the tip in Evanstown and straddled the river and came out on a path to High St,quite near to the police station.It also crossed the railway line from the Brittanic colliery

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1960 by John Peek

I was one of 14 cyclists from Sussex who descended upon Cerne Abbas on Good Friday 1962, staying until Easter Monday.  We literally descended, as the route we used was to come over the hill from Piddletrenthide swooping down the ...Read more

A memory of Cerne Abbas in 1962 by William Lovell

Andrew CORDEN, a widowed and retired police constable, became the Custodian or Warden of Ludlow Castle before 1871. He was still taking care of it when he died in 1879 on Dinham at the age of 74. Did he live in a house on ...Read more

A memory of Ludlow in 1870 by Mandy Sutton

My memory of the Grange dates to when it was being used as a youth hostel in the Seventies and my primary school in Hounslow used to take 3rd and 4th year pupils away for a week so we experienced something more than Tridents and ...Read more

A memory of Ashover in 1972 by Mark Solomon