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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

I was born in 5 Lower New Rank, Blaenavon in 1950 and went to the Garn School and left Blaenavon in 1962 for Kent. My dad was born there, Tommy David, does anyone remember us? I used to go to Bellis Cafe at the bottom of town, we though it was real cool.

A memory of Blaenavon in 1950 by Michael David

I was born in Rochdale in 1934. I attended Champness Hall Sunday School, 1940 -52, which was situated just below the Rochdale Observer offices (on the left of the photo). It was a large Methodist Central Hall with offices used by ...Read more

A memory of Rochdale in 1952 by stanley.rudman

I was born in 1948 and lived behind Wallis's undertakers in Ripple Road, where my dad was the manager. I went to St Margaret's Church of England School in Back Lane, and was married at St Margaret's Church in 1970. I also did my nursing ...Read more

A memory of Barking by Carol Harding

I was born in Templecombe Hospital on 13 April 1943, my mother was Lilian Game (nee Atkins) and was staying with her widowed father, Ernest Atkins of Silver Street, Wincanton, after leaving London because of the bombing during the war. My brother was also born there in September 1944.

A memory of Templecombe in 1943 by Pamela White

I was born in this hospital in 1973 - don't remember much about it to be honest! LOL! It's long gone now.

A memory of Aldershot by Tracey Barden