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I am searching for my ancestors from Netherbury the family names are Toogood, Tolley, Spraklen, Meech, Clarke, Hoskens, Maish, Cox. These are names going back to the early 1700. Netherbury has held my interest since I was a ...Read more

A memory of Netherbury

Both sets of grandparents lived in Lowestoft so we were able to visit right through the war years when other people couldn't. I remember hiding under the table wearing tin hats with my maternal grandmother, brother and our ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft by Patricia Anderson

I have been tracing my ancestry from Australia back to Great Britain. One of the ancestors has it noted that he was born in Rye House, Hertfordshire. Googling brought up this wonderful photos of this place. Knowing I will ...Read more

A memory of Rye House Sta

The Margate cliffs were chalk. An extremely tall church named The Holy Trinity Church sat in the middle of Trinity Square about 800m from the sea. During the war, the roof had collapsed leaving the outer walls, tower and ...Read more

A memory of Margate in 1950 by Dave Harris

Bell Street, Reigate. The address of my great grandfather, and until 2006 I had never been there. But on a nostalgic trip from Sweden, seeking my roots so to speak, I visited Reigate to see if any signs were to be found. Needing ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 2006 by Barry W J Chandler

I can recall the busy weekends with cars overflowing onto the front green and adjoining fields. Ladies wore floral dresses and the men with slacks and rolled up sleeves. To buy an Ice cream or a cream tea for mum and dad plain tea ...Read more

A memory of Branscombe in 1960 by Anthony Sellick

I started at the school in 1961 as a day boy. The school also had boarders who lived at what had been the original school building off Court Barton which was also the girls school in my day. Looking at the photographs ...Read more

A memory of Ilminster in 1961 by Robert Lewis

Holland is a bustling Essex coastal town `resplendent`-a bride in her wedding day gown, tree lined avenues, with neat little plots, well kept gardens and a place for the tots, a school, four churches, library and hall, a ...Read more

A memory of Clacton-On-Sea in 1993 by Allen Warrender

There was a pub near the railway bridge on Overy Street called 'The 3 Tuns' was that the one? I was born in a house in Dartford Road in 1955, the family moved to a new bungalow, no. 6 Tuffnail Road, tel. 23838, ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1961

A few years ago my brother and I visited Ascott-under-Wychwood. My father's family, surname "Venville", lived there for a very long time. Venville as a surname was rather rare and it wasn't until the ...Read more

A memory of Ascott-under-Wychwood by Jennifer Nicol