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My parents, Ron and Mary Grant took over the New Inn at Drayton in 1957. Prior to that they had the Royal Pier Hotel at Sandown, on IOW. My sister Suzanne came over with them. I joined them the following year, as ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1957 by Roland Grant

I remember going to Mitcham Fair and paying 2 1/2d to go into a tent and look at Siamese twins in a jar. I used to walk across the Bee Hive bridge to Cranmer Middle School. Also we sometimes walked down 'Cold ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1966 by sally_lawes

Easter Sunday 2009 was a gloriously fine and sunny day - just right for a family outing so my son David drove us all in my car to Arlington Court which is an enormous National Trust property not ...Read more

A memory of Arlington in 2009 by John Howard Norfolk

The large building on the left edge of the photograph is Ruswarp Mill. A mill has been here since Saxon times and the first written record of this mill appears in the Domesday book. The name Ruswarp may have originated from the ...Read more

A memory of Ruswarp by Claire Allen

In November 1880 my grandfather then aged 16 years was Apprentice Booking Clerk at Rhuddlan Station. There was only one other member of staff that being the Station Master. After four months training he was sent to Bangor ...Read more

A memory of Rhuddlan in 1880 by John Rippon

Father William Duncan born, Bishop Burton was missionary among the Tsimshian of British Columbia.  He moved portion of the Tsimshian to Metlakatla, Alaska and this Canoe Project will be an ...Read more

A memory of Bishop Burton in 1860 by Terrance H Booth Sr.

DISASTER AT BOB'S FERRY This account was researched and written by Duncan Hamman (bikedunc@aol.com). It has appeared in the Partington & Carrington Transmitter Community Newspaper. On Tuesday April 14th 1970 ...Read more

A memory of Irlam in 1970 by Duncan Hamman

My memory of Owslebury goes back to the hot summer of 1937. I lived in Bishopstoke at that time, being a lad of nine years old. My father had just bought our first car, not a posh one and looking back I doubt if it would pass ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1930 by Frederick Cannock

Prussia Cove is a place I walked to in 2007 and have come away knowing that I have todo my family tree as I am related to both Captain Harry Carter and his brother John Carter (The King of Prussia) who were local ...Read more

A memory of Prussia Cove by Clare Brown

Where Broughty Castle guards the mouth of the River Tay In the tower we climbed up a weathered stone stairway To look far over the fair land of our fathers Later you took a photograph of me at a quay in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughty Ferry in 2004 by Sonja Nic Rafferty