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I was very young around 5 I believe when I lived there. My Father (Jim) who was a motor engineer ran the Parkhouse Garage where my mother (Eileen) also ran a Cafe. There was a small garden pond in the front garden ...Read more

A memory of Cholderton by mhopkins706

My sister and I were at Shute between 1949 and 1952, and I hardly recognise some of the memories here! For us it was a happy place, where we rode ponies and made dens in the woods. We learned about wildflowers - Mrs. Clapp was ...Read more

A memory of Shute by jane.maanley

I lived in this house for a year in 1958 when my father was stationed at RAF Wethersfield. We spent a good deal of time in the kitchen as the warmest room in the house. When spring came it was lovely in the back garden with snowdrops and ...Read more

A memory of Great Easton

I remember shoe inspections, and length of skirt and "divided skirts (shorts) had to be a certain number of inches above the knee but not many (perish the thought!) This was Prince Henry's Grammar School. The younger girls had to do gym in ...Read more

A memory of Evesham by sandraclifton07

Spent many many happy school holidays at Wardleys caravan park in the early to mid 1950s , around 1953-1956, I used to go with my mum for the whole 6 weeks holiday period, we stayed in my uncles chalet that he had built on the ...Read more

A memory of Hambleton by alan.kay1

I remember staying here with my parents sister and cousin must have been about 1950. I would have been about 6 or 7. Seem to remember a sort of sunroom located at the front where us kids slept in makeshift beds made up from ...Read more

A memory of Southwold

While doing my family tree I discovered My grandfather Hugh Midlane worked At May and Bakers for 35 years as an industrial chemist. He was presented with an engraved pocket watch in 1948 which is now in the possession of my son. My ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Jackie Owen

Hi there... great to read these posts. Seems like most are from alumni who attended earlier than me but clearly some of those teachers had been there forever. I started in the second year in 1964, and immediately started a friendship ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak by tmdleary

I lived at 99 Appledore Avenue, Barnehurst from 1956 - 1975. My school friends from Appledore were David and John Owen, Steve Beard and his lovely Jordy family, Christine , Jennifer and Alan Jones. My next door neighbours were Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Barnehurst by Steve Tull

In the early 1950s Mining undergraduates at the University of Birmingham practised land surveying at Llanfairfechan. They lodged for most of June at Newry Cottages, now Plas Heulog. The task was to traverse the area south of ...Read more

A memory of Llanfairfechan by Phil Rwad