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I was four when my parents, Geoff and Pyll Kleboe, bought Keepers Cottage, Henfold Lane, Newdigate. A Mrs Thompson and her husband "Blackberry Jack" had lived there for many years and the property was very run down. With ...Read more

A memory of Newdigate in 1951 by Sarah Rashbrooke

Hi We lived in Fairy Cross at Keepers Cottage, it used to belong to the Pine Coffin family, for a number of years, very happy there.

A memory of Fairy Cross in 1982 by Paul Kirby

I was born in 1964 in Richard Murray Hospital Consett and lived with my mum Margaret and grandmother Milly in St Ives Road, Leadgate. My grandmother Milly and grandfather Charlie Faragher had lived at 45 St Ives Road ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1964 by Lynne Evans

This is not really a memory - I am tring to find out information about the Plough Inn, Main Street, High Bentham. I now live at this address. The inn has been split into two cottages but I would love to know more about it.

A memory of High Bentham by Hilary Leeing

Interesting photo: this timber-framed building is actually a 'Wealden' converted to 'Continuous Jetty' type. "Towards the close of the 15th century, an entirely new kind of dwelling appeared in ...Read more

A memory of Tenterden by Jonathan Gurr

My husband was stationed at RAF Acklington. I used to collect my marriage allowance at the post office. I recall a VERY cold day waiting for a bus. I had just returned from the heat of the Far East and was unaware how ...Read more

A memory of Red Row in 1959 by Rosemarie Hodge

I lived in a terraced cottage with a family named Hatch. Mrs. Hatch ran the grocers and the post office in 1969. My daughter Cassie was just over a year old and used to play on the porch between the house and the store. She ...Read more

A memory of Mixbury in 1969 by Don Colley

I was born in Corsham in September 1949, and lived at Number 1 Lanes End, Gastard with my parents, sister and brother until my marriage in 1973. The cottage in the picture shows Number 3 Lanes End and around the ...Read more

A memory of Gastard by Nicola Wilkins

I was born in 1928 at 20, Cotsford Crescent, the third son of a miner William Holmes. All his brothers were miners and myself and my brothers worked underground. I remember Lumleys shop as it was not far away and Mr. Lumley refused to ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1930 by Albert Holmes

My family lived in a tied cottage at Trewellard Cliff, the farm was owned by the Rowe family at St Just. We lived there until my father died in 1963 (Sept) then moved to Pendeen, I was 12 by then and attended ...Read more

A memory of Trewellard in 1951 by John Stephen Oates