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My parents are Angela (nee Goulden) and Bryan Wilson (now sadly deceased), both from Bramhall. My paternal Grandfather owned the bakery in the village "Wilsons" which was taken over after my grandfather's retirement by ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall in 1955 by Helen Young

I was born in Northwich in 1966, however I moved here to Lancashire in 1980 but I still consider time in Northwich as being the best days of my life. I moved here when I was 14, I lived in Greenhall Road and my best friend ...Read more

A memory of Northwich in 1970 by Vicky Wood

Hi there. Harry Elmer (who I understand was my Grandad's brother) owned and ran this Mill into the 1940s. The Muggeridge Collection has some wonderful images of him replendent in the very gentlemanly working clothes of a ...Read more

A memory of Woolpit in 1890 by Les Elmer

My memories of our familý's involvement in Sanderstead Church is only from the late 1940's and early 50's. I was a pageboy at the age of about 8 or 9 yrs old at my sister's wedding.  Then, one of my older brothers was a choir ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead by Eric Lovett

My family lived adjacent to the fields which were designated for the Hixon Aerodrome.  I remember well standing against the garden fence seeing the location being prepared for the runways, and watching the workmen erecting the ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1941 by Sylvia Pugh

To the right of the photograph is a driveway into the interior of the original castle that was the entrance to Castle Farm operated by F.Elms & Sons and in particular my uncle Harry Elms. He bought the Farm in about 1930 ...Read more

A memory of Cooling in 1955 by Jerry Furley

I grew up in Eckington in the 1950s and 1960s. My father, Emerson, and his father, John Henry, were coal merchants in the village. My father was a member of many church activities in his youth as well as being a brass ...Read more

A memory of Eckington in 1958 by Peter Argyle

A little bit of history about the Black Bull. My GGG Grandfather Thomas Banks (1791-1869) was the inn keeper during the 1850's and possibly for a short period before that. He also ran the slaughterhouse and the ...Read more

A memory of Great Smeaton in 1860 by Peter Allen

I moved to Broadstone with my parents at the tender age of 2, and we lived in Sidney Road, off York Road. It was 1950, and ,of course there was no Waterloo Estate at that time, so York Road ended when it came to the railway line and ...Read more

A memory of Broadstone in 1950 by Ian Sutherland

The year is approximate as I was in my teens, so it was somewhere between 1972 and 1974. I had a horse called Shamrock, that I kept in Sandon and I used to ride him through Danbury and Little Baddow ...Read more

A memory of Little Baddow in 1973 by Heather Chaplin