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I remember the houses being built in Raglan Way, during the 1950s. With some friends I recall that we walked along the soil pipes, which had been laid at the bottom of trenches, probably that morning. We obviously broke the cement joints, ...Read more

A memory of Uley by Ken Cook

My mother was born in Annfield Plain 1924, her name was Mary Johnson and she lived at 64 Clarendon Place. During the Second World War she was sent to Coventry to help the war effort, working in a factory. She married Arthur ...Read more

A memory of Hanging Stone in 1956 by James Armson

I was born in Tyn-y-Bryn in 1948 at 15, Heol Haulfryn, and still love to see the house where I was born.

A memory of Tonyrefail by Jane Llewellyn Williams

I was born in 1940 in Langley Maidstone, Lord Routes' house, a wing of which was given over during the Second World War as a maternity part for expectant mothers. We lived on the main road in Wrotham, opposite a pub ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham in 1944 by Jill Ambrose Nee Fisher

Pre 1960s when I was a young girl, my grandmother, Gertrude Mary Middlehurst, and my mother, Marjorie Elizabeth Nield-Siddall, and me, Carol Rita Nield-Siddall, used to visit my grandmother's sister, ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall by Carol Newman

I was born near Lords Cricket Ground in London in 1933 and came to Hanwell soon after where my family settled in Greenford Avenue. Hobbayne School was a few yards down the road so I started my education there. In 1939 the ...Read more

A memory of Hanwell in 1940 by John Chant

I loved reading the lovely memories of Kilburn. My Mother and father lived there in 1967 and some of their stories are lovely. I know this is a long shot but can anyone remember a bank advert in June 1967 for a bank offering to "Own ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1967 by Mary Coffey

I used to live at Buttsway House up past Courtfields.

A memory of Milverton in 1968 by William Rich

My g g uncle George and Aunt Louisa had the Travellers Rest from about 1881, he is still there in 1901, they raised 7 children there, all who at one time or another worked for their parents. He left there and ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1890 by Rosemary Abraham

My grandfather was the head master at Dunbeg School, he lived in the school house. Does anyone have any photos or stories? I would love to hear anything please.

A memory of Oban by Kay Mac Innes