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I think my dad said his father's (also a Bill Hill) relatives came from Medmenham, my dad was born and lived in Cippenham, Slough all his life and mentioned uncles and aunts at Medmenham, are there still any Hills there?

A memory of Medmenham in 1920 by Dave Hill

We came to live in Calmore in 1945 at 304 Calmore Road. We used to have the milk delivered by horse and cart. My mother would go out with her tin jug and I would follow her and get up on the cart and he would turn round and we would ...Read more

A memory of Calmore in 1949 by Terry Matthews

From Ethel Charnock to Ethel Middleton when I migrated and married an Australian. I was born in 1933 attended St James Church of England, the eldest of four kids, two sisters and one brother. We lived in Needwood Street off ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst by Ethel Middleton

I was born in Liverpool (Smithdown Road Hospital that was renamed Sefton General by the time my sister was norn there 19 months after me) and was christened in St Andrew's Church in Clubmoor. We lived for a short ...Read more

A memory of Liverpool in 1955 by Susan Coleman

CAN ANY ONE HELP ME WITH THE FOLLOWING - in the 1970s I was a student living in SLOSH, the student hostel just behind the garage on Amen Corner. I know it has all changed now - so can anyone provide me with details? When was SLOSH ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1972 by Adrian Vidler

Hi. After being bombed out three times during 1940 my mother moved my family to Bale in 1941. We lived at no 2 Bale in those days, the last house on the right as you walk through the village, it had a well outside, as well as some ...Read more

A memory of Bale in 1941 by Robert Munn

My father came from Sabden, his father and mother, my grandparents, owned a corner shop in the same street as a cotton mill. My father joined the Metropolitan Police in London and married my mother who was born in London. During the ...Read more

A memory of Sabden in 1940 by Norman Sefton

I was brought up in my youth by my father's brother Rees Emmanuel and his wife Erica, most of my own family having been killed in an air raid in Pontrhydyfen on 11/5/1941. We had lived in Trelewis and Bedlinog and came to ...Read more

A memory of Cilybebyll in 1947 by Rhys John Emmanuel

I was a West Midlands police cadet in 1978 and as such had to do 6 weeks of community service. For me this meant working with foreign students at the fruit picking camp in Leverington.  It was run by a guy in his 30s ...Read more

A memory of Leverington in 1978 by John Scott

I first came to Glasbury when my father - Fred Whitchurch - became head gardener at the Maesllwch Castle Gardens. This was 1945, when I was but six years old. I went to Coedybolen School, where at that time there were ...Read more

A memory of Glasbury in 1945 by Robin Whitchurch