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There are so many things I can remember,Calne when the town was not split in two the flower seller who used to sell the flowers under an arch as you went up the hill past lovely town gardens. Being lined up along the pavement to see the ...Read more

A memory of Calne by grannymj

I would like to discover any information about my grandparents Tom and Lillian Robbins who lived in Church Lane, Pinvin circa 1940's. or about any of the Tom Robbin's siblings: Frank Robbins, Harold Robbins, Ada Robbins. Ada ...Read more

A memory of Pershore by davetrudgian

Church attendance was compulsory for us an hour of fidgeting in between mam & dad oor riibs were black and blue with the putts we got for shifting aboot or cracking oor pandrop. John Thompson was the beadle he rang the first ...Read more

A memory of Hopeman by igmain

As a young boy just moved to bracknell " in the Earley 60 my parents lived in a bungalow oposit the Green Man pub on the site to which wildridings junior school is now It was called one Acha ...Read more

A memory of Easthampstead by davidevans263

I lived as a child at number 110 henwood lane Catherine de barnes or better known as catney.The house we lived in was the lodge to the hospital. I lived with mother and father,4 sisters and 3 brothers. We spent 3 years ...Read more

A memory of Catherine-de-Barnes by helicopter777

I lived at 3 Briar Lane from birth in 1951 until we moved to Derby in 1962. I went to Forest Street primary and remember some of the teachers, Palin, Woodward and the evil head teacher Mr. Ackerley who delighted in ...Read more

A memory of Weaverham by steve

The road is called Elmshott Lane and ran from the Bath Road at Everetts Corner, past the Junior School on the left in the picture, down to the junction of Mercian Way and the green. Mercian Way in those days was very pretty with ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham by Annie Harvey

Just to say this is not THE MARKET PLACE , as a boy it was known to us as SMIDDY HILL . It's the gateway to the MARKET PLACE . The band used to play on the green on SMIDDY HILL on a SUNDAY . And the LETTERED BOARD pub is in those ...Read more

A memory of Pickering by anneandchibby

where I live now since 1968 there used to be farm there was cattle over the hatches . signal box just near the railway at the hatches. 4 sweet shops. Ansell newsagent -Mons-shop -spar shop- spare parts shop used to ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green

Over the years the layout of Greyfriars Green has changed enormously by and in 1950's, it was vastly different to this early picture. In the 50's as a child Father took our family to visit the green using it as a vantage point to ...Read more

A memory of Coventry by howardrichards_llb