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I was visiting England in October 2010 and my cousin, who I was staying with, and his wife and I rented the cottage at Lydia Mills. What was interesting to me is that my 3x great grandfather ran the mill in the ...Read more

A memory of South Brent in 2010 by Vickie Sandover

Burley Woodhead. We lived in Shotover from my birth in 1942 until approx 1957. My parents moved into the house and the village 1939. When my brother Roger was born in Bingley in 1946 I ...Read more

A memory of Burley in Wharfedale in 1950 by Michael Inman

The public house now known as the Three Trees, was originally the old farmhouse and behind it was the barns of the farm which we used to play in. This was the short cut from my house to Chandlers the sweet shop. We got into ...Read more

A memory of Bletchley by Susan Bailey

I was born in 1945 in my aunty's cottage in Searle Street, which ran from the corner of the Station Hotel below the railway line embankment where we would wave at steam trains as they went past. ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell in 1950 by Deidre Parry

Hi, can anyone help? My mum was born at 1 Crystalate Cottages, Golden Green, Hadlow, Kent. Do they still exist or were they knocked down?

A memory of Tonbridge by Heather Marchant

Several members of my family had connections with Rushton at different times between about 1910 and 1950. My great grandmother, Sarah Jane Wooton was landlady at The Crown ( I have a photo of her ...Read more

A memory of Rushton Spencer in 1920 by Karen Burns

This is not my first memory of Crossgar after-all I was a young teenager at the time. I was standing outside the Picture House in Crossgar waiting for it to open. As usual a bunch of young lads larking about and carrying-on. ...Read more

A memory of Crossgar in 1963

My sister and I lived at Gardeners Cottage, Mappleton between 1950 and 1954. Dad (Tom Fairbanks) worked at Hinchley Wood as a gardener for Hugh Molson an MP. We went to school in Ashbourne, and played with John Peach ...Read more

A memory of Mappleton in 1951 by Sheila Glazebrook

My grandmother`s sister owned one of the houses which are built almost in to the cliff as you walk down the hill and along a little walk way to the right. In those days it was used a guest house. My father would take his holidays ...Read more

A memory of Staithes in 1958

I was born at Coullie Udny on 8th September 1941 in my grandparent's house, their name was Burnett and he was a grieve at Coullie. The Cottar House they stayed in is now called Burnett Cottage. I lived there for 17 years and ...Read more

A memory of Udny Green in 1941