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My uncle Steve owned a bungalow in Jaywick Sands, "Abijan", at 18 Lavender Walk where I spent my childhood bank holidays and annual six week school holiday between 1945 and 1953 and occasionally short breaks ...Read more

A memory of Jaywick by ducatee

We spent 14 years going to Trefor, and every holiday had wonderful memories. My dad was very good friends with the owner of the house that was on the beach at Trefor. He fished from the pier there and he would go out on the boats fishing ...Read more

A memory of Trefor by janetbarton2

Dug out my old school report.. teachers on it Miss Holloway "He is still very dreamy in class" and I was top of the class!!!!! ,F W A Donaldson, P D Jackson,L Davis, J Fernee (wife of Jon Fernee) and ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by martin.doonan

Does anyone remember Uncle Jack who lived with his wife and mother-in-law in an ancient cottage without electricity or water? Always a willing smile and forever going up and down the road. Should anyone from those wonderful years at ...Read more

A memory of Upper Boat by griffatgoerlitz

I remember walking through cannon hill park in 1957 8 & 9 in the spring when they had the tulip festival on, there were coloured lights and classical music playing all along the walkway of the boating pond, where there were the ...Read more

A memory of Cannon Hill Park by thorntonkevin29

I am researching my family tree. My grandfather and five of his siblings were born in North London between 1854 and 1874. However, the census shows that two of his siblings, a brother and sister were born in Seaton in 1858 & 1859. I ...Read more

A memory of Seaton by sonia

I was born in 1944 and lived in Cranmer Road until 1958. Our neighbours on one side were Mr & Mrs Norwood, who always sent round a portion of home-made spotted dick for me on a Friday evening when rationing was still in ...Read more

A memory of Edgware by Roger Bowen

Firstly let be be clear I've never visited Whitchurch Shropshire. I was party to a phenomenon which took place there in the 1960s/70s. As a young journalist on several Popular Music Magazines, I became aware ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch

I spent many summer holidays at Talacre in my Grandads 2 caravans in the late 40s and 50s. He had a large plot in the dunes, opposite was a very steep sand hill where we collected old bullet cases. Also just by it there was a ...Read more

A memory of Talacre

The picture shown is North Street, where my grandmother & grandfather lived. I always knew the village to be up the hill where some of the shops were. At the end of the houses on the right was the ...Read more

A memory of Kingsdown in 1940 by Maurice Lipson