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I remember coming to live at Barclay House in the September with my sister Rachel and my Mum and Dad.  We moved from Sutton Coldfield because Dad no longer wanted to work as a garage mechanic for someone else, and he ...Read more

A memory of St Keverne in 1962 by Julie Little

I remember as a child in the early to mid 1960's taking many family holidays here in these wonderful bungalows. We spent many a day when it was raining playing Dominoes or Ludo as a family. My elder brother used to catch ...Read more

A memory of Trusthorpe in 1966 by Gina Reeves

I moved to Childerthornton about 1966. I attended Childer Thornton primary then moved to Little Sutton and on to Mill Lane. I spent many summers at Rivacre baths. Does anyone remember Dave Williams? His parents lived in the flat within the grounds of the baths.

A memory of Little Sutton by Janet Roberts

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

It is Green lane but I remember this spot as Cressys Corner,my dad Bill Atkinson used to sit on the seat during the day Until the Green Lane Club opened ,Then after dark it was a favorate spot for us to gather,As IRecall ...Read more

A memory of Featherstone in 1955 by Brendan Atkinson

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

Just a few memories of what shops were there in Little Sutton around the time this photograph was taken, starting on the near left of the picture you had the food CO-OP, the white church followed by the fruit and veg shop, ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1969 by Tony Franklin

I was 5 years old when the Second World War started.  My father Alec Lawlor and mother Thirza Booty Lawlor along with my little brother Brian and myself were living in Bristol, West England at the ...Read more

A memory of Stondon Massey in 1940 by David Lawlor

When my family moved to Sutton Courtenay in the 1960s this was the only shop left in the old part of the village. It was a fabulous place with big glass jars of sweets behind the counter, I used to visit ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Courtenay by Sean K

I was a teenager, I used to live in Carshalton from 1986, I went to St Philomenas between 1990-1996, I remember passing through Roundshaw Estate to use the libraries, there were fewer houses and it was just a ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1997 by Christine Chua