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My dad was born at Hillside Cottages in Wareside in 1929 (I think). I remember visiting my Grandmother there up until she moved to Ware round about 1978/9. She lived in the house with the "Hillside Cottages" sign on ...Read more

A memory of Wareside in 1975 by Sandra Penstone Smith

I was born in Chalford at "The Little House" in Chalford Hill in 1932 and lived there until March 1940. I was the youngest of six children who all lived in the cottage and have very lovely memories of both the cottage ...Read more

A memory of Chalford Hill in 1930 by Dinah Milgate

I was born on Yeovil in 1945, and my memories are of growing up in a pleasant market town. The George was a wonderful timber framed building that I remember being demolished because, apparently, it hindered traffic flow. Shortly ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil by Jack Lewis

This picture brings back many memories. I was born in 1953 and lived in Coney Hall until 1972, attending school at Wickham Common and then Hawes Down Secondary. The view from where this picture was taken is not dramatically ...Read more

A memory of West Wickham by Peter Leach

I was born in Waltham Abbey and lived there until I was twenty eight. It is the place I call home, where my roots are. Many times I remember going into the Abbey Church; there is such a feeling of ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Abbey in 1962 by Christine Brooker

This photo shows Cragg Farm painted white and Sweetbriar Cottage attached. My mother was Margaret Jane Carr and was born and raised at Cragg Farm. She was 16 years old in 1926 when this photo was taken. She married Roland Calverley ...Read more

A memory of Starbotton by Joyce Billingsley

My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of my ...Read more

A memory of Barnes in 1870 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born around the corner from the photo, at 15 Eastcote Lane, just off the Northolt Road, in 1947 (born at home, too, not in a hospital!) Remember going to school on Northolt Road, maybe a quarter mile west of the ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1954 by Ray Perkins

my dad John Hollis was born in tied cottage at whatcombe march 29th 1930, his dad Frederick Hollis trained race horses at the stables at whatcombe for Dick Dawson, a beautiful part of the country, anyone know anything about whatcombe around that time,

A memory of Whatcombe in 1930 by Jacqueline Hollis

My grandmother was born in Yackla, Wenvoe (the cottages near the Whitehall Quarry) in 19th January 1888 and was the daughter of Mary Morgan and George Jones and baptised on the 19th September 1888 at St. Mary's Church Wenvoe. ...Read more

A memory of Wenvoe