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I was born in 1949 at home in West Wycombe Road and lived in the area until 1969. My family owned one of the two Corn & Seed Merchants businesses called Jones and Rivett Limited in Oxford Street and Dovecote ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1949 by Gerald Rivett

I was born at School House, Crawley Down in 1941.  My Gran and Grandad (Reg & Florrie  ... known as Ducky ...Fry)  lived there for many years. My elder sister Jean and I (Jacki) lived there with my Mum, ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down in 1941 by Jacki Moon

I lived in a two story flat, over what was Barclays Bank. Almost opposite was the Guidhall and St Nicholas and Faith Church. We had a clear view from our lounge and upper bedroom window of the road leading to the station ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1949 by Raymond Guy

Born to Kathleen Leniston, and Ned Leniston July 1951 in Torbay Road, to the glorious rolling green fields (joke) of Kilburn. There were still bloody big holes where buildings used to be, thanks to Mr Hitler's town ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1951 by First Name Last Name

My husbands family were from Bascote. His ancestor Edwin Markham moved there as an ag labourer in the 1870s. His wife Maria died shortly after, and he married again. He had very many children, and used to drink at the Fox and ...Read more

A memory of Bascote in 1880 by R K

Hope someone out there can help. My Great Grandparents were called Elizabeth and Thomas Jackson. They are buried in St. Pauls, Hooton. They had 4 children, Thomas (my grandfather) John William Jackson ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Margaret Eve

John Williams married Amelia Baldwin born Hardwich, Abergavenny 11 March1853 (Llanfoist). They moved to Wigan, Lancashire, between 1875 and 1880 were my Grandmother Emily was born and her sister ...Read more

A memory of Blaenavon by Brian Freeman

There was a youth club held in a building across the carpark from Minster Primary School. I think this building was called the Leisure Centre, it also hosted Brownies and Guides. For a few pee we would spend hours ...Read more

A memory of Minster in 1980 by Susie Southall

By accident i have just come across this site- shame there are no memories already entered for abercwmboi- As a child I remember looking out of my Grandfathers front door or his bedroom window at the wonderful array of lights ...Read more

A memory of Abercwmboi by Denise Meadwell

Thoughts of Inverness come flooding back when I remember my time off work at the Glen Affirc Hydro Electric Project in 1949-1950. My two friends from work Bill Collins and Andy Anderson and I would climb into my Morris 8 roadster and ...Read more

A memory of Inverness in 1950 by Denman Lalonde