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I remember starting in the September when the first girls (4) joined the school ,Margaret and Pat being two of them. Here I learned how to technically draw a nut and bolt in 3D that looked like a photo and a ...Read more

A memory of Worcester by douglpaulin

I was an evacuee during the Second World War and was sent to Devon I wasn't quite 4 years old. I remember staying with Auntie Hetty and Uncle Jack I think their surname was Gay. I was there from 1939 until 1943 ...Read more

A memory of Uffculme by maureencaroline

I was born in 1954 in Bideford. I went to a small private school near the strand but it closed down, then went to church infants school near St Mary's Church, then to another school near Abbotsham Road , ...Read more

A memory of Bideford by yvonnecosmetic

Our first visit to Porthtowan for a holiday was in August 2001 when we took my husband, Chris' five year old son Daniel for a stay at The Beach Hotel. The owners, Sian and Colin and their four children made us very welcome and ...Read more

A memory of Porthtowan

lived in margate from approx. 1945 to 1952. There was a pier with a life boat station halfway up.Took a trip on the lifeboat, public once year, and was really seasick. There was also the Pavilion, close by was a 'pillbox' a wartime ...Read more

A memory of Margate

I worked at the Beach Hotel in the early 1990s. I worked as the Restaurant manager ,the last one just before it closed . All so sad . It was supposed to be fully refurbished,but it all fell through. The Hotel was ...Read more

A memory of Littlehampton by roybond1960

Miss hopefully ' what I have to say will come as a surprise to you . If so I am sorry but it is all true Your father peter was a brutal cold heartless child molester I was one of is boys in the kids home he ran The ...Read more

A memory of Newnham by dogcatchermarty

I lived in South Wellfield just outside Whitley Bay in the years listed above. Despite being something of a mongrel in terms of heritage I always look upon the town and area as my true home. Although being probably conceived ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay by Neil Johnson

We always enjoyed holidays in the 70s in Cliftonville we went down a gap in the cliffs to the beach every afternoon then on the way back to our guest house in Gordon road we ...Read more

A memory of Cliftonville

I grew up in Woolacombe and Mortehoe but my most vivid memories was living in the bungalow of Castle Rock, scrambling down the cliffs to Combesgate Beach with my surf board from Bert Yoe's. My parents, the ...Read more

A memory of Mortehoe by jziesche