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Visited Sir Walter's birthplace at Hayes Barton and touched the house to link with his history and spirit. Beautiful location and could imagine him as a young man looking out over the same countryside that I could survey. ...Read more

A memory of East Budleigh in 2007 by kelvin.baines

First placed here by the monks of Evesham Abbey in the thirteenth century to enable them to tend the vineyard that they planted on Clarkes Hill, the original use of the cottage was a wine store.  Their system of pulling the ...Read more

A memory of Evesham by Diana Raphael

My name is James Ryder, i was born on the 2nd January 1920 in Factory Road, the youngest of seven children, of William and Lucy. Started school [C of E] at the age of 3 and left at the age of 14., during which time I sang ...Read more

A memory of Harbertonford in 1920 by James Ryder

What a great place this web site is. I certainly love the Burnt Oak as I knew it between 1947 and 1969 when I then emigrated to SA (since back in Weston super Mare). All the memories you folk have mentioned are mine too. I ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1960 by Fred East

My family lived in The Lodge (house on far right of picture) for about 47 years. The Lodge is the gatehouse to the mansion called Adderbury House which became a home for elderly after the 2nd World War. The two pubs ...Read more

A memory of Adderbury in 1955 by Glyn Gilkes

Of course they had been nicely re-furbished and with all mod cons like running water and electricity. It was a nice experience living in a thatched house and, believe me, they aren't full of spiders and not as ...Read more

A memory of Thatcham in 1983 by Donald Macdonald

Used to live at 7 Sharpcroft. Dad-Sydney Perham, mum-Gwendoline, myself-Brenda, brothers John and David. It was the corner house. Attended Hare Street Primary School from here.

A memory of Harlow in 1956 by Brenda Perham

I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate ...Read more

A memory of Prestbury in 1976 by James Logan Bell

The parade of shops situated on the right was once the site of a large house called The Rookery, we lived at the Rookery from 1956 -1962. This adjoined the old Procea Products factory where my father worked for many years as a ...Read more

A memory of Irthlingborough in 1956 by Mick Austin

I attended this school somewhere around 1955-1957. Does anyone remember those years especially if you were in Pennine house dormitory? Teachers as I remember were Bradbury, Barker & Craig for the girls dorms and Commander and Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Bellingham in 1954 by Margaret Chesney Lowe