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I was born at my Nan and granddad's house in Three Firs Way, my mum and dad then moved to Omer's Rise when I was one and then we got a house back in Three Firs Way when I was two. I loved growing up there. I went to Bland ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common by Michele Hawkins

My Life in Rosedale Abbey - Raymond Beharrell During the last war my brother and I lived in York very near to the main railway yards. The area was always on the target for the German bombers, being railway sidings. ...Read more

A memory of Rosedale Abbey by fichrist

I was born in 1939 in Camberley and lived there up to 1960. I loved the freedom as a child, we lived in Abbott’s lane on the frimley road and as a child had easy access to watchets woods and the Collage Grounds plus all of ...Read more

A memory of Camberley by frcole

We lived in Somerset Road but then moved around the corner onto Irby Road and could see across the fields to the Welsh hills. Late evenings in spring we would hear the sound of the Gypsies coming along Irby Road and turn into Fishers ...Read more

A memory of Pensby in 1953 by Len Riley

My brother Joc lived in Cockleshell, Church Lane, on the Bush Estate in Eccles-on-Sea. I went for holidays and one of the first places we went to was the beach, from where we could see the Happisburgh Lighthouse ...Read more

A memory of Happisburgh in 2004 by Elsie Mc Allister

I was born in London,my parents Winifred and Charles Jestice bought a brand new house in Rous Road in 1946/47 ,I was 6months old. I went to St Johns primary school,and then onto The Brook Secondary Modern Loughton at ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by jackiephil1

Came across this place by accident - glad I did. I spent the first 11 years of life down Hawson Street, before moving to Aldham House Estate. I can still remember the "old gas works" the other side of ...Read more

A memory of Wombwell by lez_slack

Hepworth was my home for 50 years, I was born there and my family have been there for eight generations. We were so priveliged to live in such a beautiful country area where we played in the woods and fields. ...Read more

A memory of Hepworth by Edie Kilner

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Hi, my name is Roy Mozley & I was born in 1948 in a prefab in Rydal Avenue, Winton. We then moved to Lambton St, Winton. This was our football pitch then, main problem was this guy who, lets say, used to visit a ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1950 by Roy Mozley