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Hello Peter, Just discovered your 'Dunsmore: People And Places Remembered' Mark Two here on the 'net. Good to know you're still active (and, I hope, well). I stumbled across the ...Read more

A memory of Dunsmore by Nick Ford

My mother (maiden name Joan Patrica Hubbard) is in her early 90s now and often recalls her childhood and early memories of Grimsby. She tells me of a picture with her father John ...Read more

A memory of Cleethorpes in 1900

My nanny passed away two days ago and she went to Parkhurst School. I was wondering if there was anyone who knew the name of the prayer that school kids memorised at Parkhurst School and ...Read more

A memory of Newport by Moog Hilderpants

G'day, My parents sold Wrotham Hill Farm in 1947 to move to Australia. It cost my father 700 pounds in then money to take the family (Mum, Dad, two brothers and myself aged 4) to Australia. I remember Dad saying there was ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham in 1947 by Summer Brook Jones

I moved here with my parents in - I think - 1959 from a shared council flat (remember them?) It was new at the time. We had maisonette 179 on the 7th & 8th floors and I was impressed (age 8) at being able to go downstairs to ...Read more

A memory of Fulham in 1959 by Richard Alford

I remember Websters very well, I was able to buy clothes by saving 1 shilling a week in their club. My cousin worked there after leaving school and before going in the ATS; she once gave me a Victorian child's apron she had found in the storeroom.

A memory of Thorne

I was born in Swansea, born in Mount Pleasnt Hospital in 1959. When I was 5 I remember being admitted to an isolation ward in Hillhouse Hospital. My mum told me I had an infection in my mouth. I remember visiting my dying mum ...Read more

A memory of Llansamlet in 1964 by Christine Lewis

Sadly The Waggon and Horses has been demolished. Controversy surrounds the old water pump which was outside and which mysteriously disappeared. The Waggon was my local for many years. I brought up in Berwick Avenue ...Read more

A memory of Hayes by Simon White

Down St Mary School was built in 1878 on the site of the Bell Inn by the Rev. W T A Radford. In the 1930s I was a pupil in the infants' class which was divided from the upper class by a green curtain on a pole. There were ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

I was 12 and lived in Prestwood for about 6 months, Oct 41 to March 42. Lived at Delsyde, Hockley Road with my parents in the house of the Adams family including Isabel aged about 10 and Leslie about2, Mr Adams had a business ...Read more

A memory of Prestwood in 1941 by Dudley Parker