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Molly Gray's Memories Of Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
When we were children during WWII, my brothers Rob and Wilf and myself often visited Weston Green. At Weston Green there were two churches and two ponds called Marneys and Milburns. My ...Read more
A memory of Weston Green by
Living In Teddington 1950s To 1980s
We moved from 76 Princes Road in 1957 to the other end of Teddington, to 143 High Street, opposite Kingston Lane. My parents bought the house for about £1400 (yes fourteen hundred) as a refurb project. It still had ...Read more
A memory of Teddington
St. Joseph’s Convent
My name is Victoria Garcia. At 15 years old, I arrived at the school in the middle of winter. Coming from an all summer weather year round, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, it was a shock how cold it was. I was greeted by ...Read more
A memory of Redhill by
Looking For People
Looking for my cousin who used to live in Malden, her name was Frances Fairclough. Her parents George and Maude, (my mother's brother). Last in contact in 1964. My name then was Janet Walsingham, she came with her husband to ...Read more
A memory of New Malden by
More Memories From A Boy Growing Up In Burghfield
Back in Burghfield around 1962, I clearly remember one day during the School Summer Holiday seeing a Huge Red and Green Steamroller coming towards me with a whole host of Road Tar making ...Read more
A memory of Burghfield Common by
Low Bradley Farm
I lived in Low Bradley Farm in the late 60's early 70's with my dad Peter Dominey, Mam Dorothy Dominey and brother Christopher. I was only just over a year old when we moved onto the farm and left when I was 7. The farm was owned ...Read more
A memory of Medomsley by
Children's Convalescent Home Charnwood Forest 1949
I was three years old when I went to Charnwood Forest for four weeks to convalesce in late spring 1949. I was recovering from pleurisy and pneumonia. My parents didn't have a car so I was ...Read more
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves
Best Holiday Ever
When I saw this photo, and read the memory by Jill Graham, I have to admit that tears filled my eyes. I stayed at Ashleigh with my parents and sister in the 60s. It was the first time that my parents had ever booked a holiday ...Read more
A memory of Allendale Town
Air Force Brat
My father was stationed in Lakenheath, England in 1963. My mother and 2 brothers followed 3 months later - I was 12 at the time. Coming from Texas, November in England was a shock, and it was the coldest winter they'd had in 60 years. ...Read more
A memory of Newmarket
Happy Days
I remember being taken into youngs shop as a small child where they sold more than drapery. Upstairs there were rolls of lino and the whole shop smelled of it. Downstairs I was fascinated by the cash cups that ran up tubes to the cashier ...Read more
A memory of Normanton
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Mining finally came to a halt in the 19th century.
Of Queen's Park's 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers' cottage, a bandstand and a
Industry came early to Rugeley.
Well- known persons came to enjoy the air, that was thought to be on a par with Switzerland; they included George Bernard Shaw and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This site has been in constant habitation since earliest days, and there was a moated village here before the Romans came.
This Thames-side town was once famed for its abbey, now almost entirely vanished; its stone was used for the building of Hampton Court.
Many shoppers came to the town every week from distant places to do their weekly shopping.
Charles Lamb, the essayist, came to live in the country town of Enfield two centuries ago.
The present coastal footpath came into being as a patrol route for the coastguards who had the duty of intercepting illicit cargoes.
Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.
The peaceful sea could be deceptive: a memorial in the church relates to nine local people who went boating one Sunday in 1799 and never came back.
Ingatestone's livelihood came from its position on the London-Chelmsford road.
A newer Shanklin grew up along the seashore to cater for the demands of both visitors and those who came to settle.
Edinburgh was well served by its tramway system for 85 years; services came to an end in November 1956.
The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.
The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came.
Public transport came early to Bournemouth, making the town a superb central location for visitors wishing to explore the locality.
When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.
Legend has it that Mediterranean traders came here to Ictis (as the place was called then) to trade for tin.
Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.
Punting became very much a ladies' pastime, and the fame of the 'English Punt Girl' spread far and wide.
The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with most of such things, it came complete with captured Russian cannon.
The Havering manor was a crown manor from the time of Harold, of Hastings fame, until 1828.
Its claim to fame is the Barn Stone - a huge granite boulder swept down from Scotland during the last Ice Age.
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