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My earliest memory of Wotham was starling school T 5 years of age 1930,I lived in StMarys road at that time.Later I lived in loddgins with my father in oak cottage St Mary's road (my mother having died) I seem to remember the people ...Read more

A memory of Wrotham by edturner1926

I was born over the shop at 1, High Street, then a MacFisheries where my Grandad was the manager until he retired at the end of October, 1956. We stayed there, with the shop closed, until moving to Downland Way, Tattenham Corner in ...Read more

A memory of Tadworth by William Armstrong

I was a little girl who was adopted to Cecil John Keeler and my first visit to Petham was as a 5yr old. My Granny Fanny keeler and had 5 sons. Dick.Ray.Ted.Cecil and Reg.Granny Keeler also had 3 daughters Daisy.Girlie and ...Read more

A memory of Petham by sjmurray278

I remember these 3 cottages before the top two were demolished leaving Clerks Cottage at the bottom. I remember the house being lit by gaslight, my father was always buying new gas mantles because he kept hitting ...Read more

A memory of Whitnash by david.jeffs1

Fond memories of Summer 1970. I was sixteen, had just taken my ‘O’Levels in Bramhall, Cheshire, (back then Abersoch was known as Bramhall-by-Sea, perhaps it still is?). I had snared a Summer job as a lowly kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Abersoch by Ian Mason

My Grandparents Wilfred and Dinah Newton ran the Black Lion pub in the 1960s, I believe, although I do not remember going there. But what I do remember as a 3 or 4 year old is going for a walk with my ...Read more

A memory of Llanfair Talhaiarn by Diana Clarkson

Sat Mar 20th 2021, at 3:22 pm Peter Tuthill commented: Yes, thanks for the photo of Smuggler's Cottage. It was criminal,wanton destruction to demolish it and throw up those totally characterless boxes. How planning permission was ...Read more

A memory of Portreath by Peter Tuthill

How a Family that came to south Cambridgeshire Clifford John Masters, My Story I was born in 4 Chaucer Cottages Foxton on the 9th February 1940 The houses backed onto the “park” ...Read more

A memory of Barrington by masters.clifford2

I moved to Corsham with my mother approx 1947. She became housekeeper to "eventually" my stepfather Jack Giblin. He worked firstly at a big house-Pockeridge ?- as a messenger, subsequently as a stoker in a boiler room at Hawthorn. We ...Read more

A memory of Corsham by joma8

My Great Aunt and uncle John and Mary Little built a beautiful cottage in The Haugh 'Almora' you used to have to walk past Military road and down the hill to The Post office [sweetie shop lol] My grandfather would take ...Read more

A memory of Haugh of Urr by John Lockhart