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I am Delphine Chapple's sister and I lived in Rhosneigr for all my years at Holyhead Grammar School.  The walk or bike ride to the station was indeed more than any young person would ...Read more

A memory of Rhosneigr in 1967 by Velvor Jones

First Day of School Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the ...Read more

A memory of Egham in 1954 by Keith O'brien

Well our address was quite easy , Fairy Cross, Near Bideford, North Devon. Tel. Horns Cross 328   !! Our mail always found us with no problems at all. There were not a lot of us there in those days. We lived in Headons Cottage, it ...Read more

A memory of Fairy Cross in 1962 by Derek England

I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 1956 by Anne Forster

We moved to Rustington in 1949 as my Mother Dr Mary Higgs was the M.O.H. at Zachary Merton and was the doctor there until her retirement. Zachary Merton was a lovely hospital to have a baby, all the ...Read more

A memory of Rustington in 1950 by Jo Berryman

I lived in Halfway House, Common Road, Great Wakering (near Potton Island), from 1957 to 1963. I lived there with my parents, two sisters and three bothers, all older than me. The primary school was a small red brick building ...Read more

A memory of Great Wakering by Heather Mc Pherson

Having grown up in Grappenhall I've seen it develop with time, but its managed to keep its identity, even though there's been a growing demand for redevelopment in the area.   Within the space of a few ...Read more

A memory of Grappenhall in 1990 by Pete Chorley

The large house to the left of this photograph is my chidlhood home, Brynderwen. It is at the bottom of Field Street , opposite the Con Club, next to the Surgery. My father was one of the local Doctors who ...Read more

A memory of Pen-y-graig in 1961 by Jan Thomas

I was born in 1994 in a house in Ascot Road which is the road behind Tooting Police Sation. Our doctors surgery was in the house where the cyclist is in the right of the photo. In 1959 my sister married "Jim" policeman from Tooting ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1944 by Richard Whiteland

my memories of tilshead ,well i lived there from1953 till 1968[from the age of 2 to 15 years old..every body seemed to know each other in the village ,a friendly small community as i remember .I first went to ...Read more

A memory of Tilshead in 1963 by Ken Dunmow