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I never lived in Ogmore Vale but my parents and grandparents did. We went there for holidays and stayed in my grandparents house in 9 Highland Place. They were the Jones family. Grandfather was the organist and choir master at ...Read more

A memory of Ogmore Vale by eileenbrown16

Army child and went to eight different schools 1936-1946. There was an all boys school called St Johns at Weymouth. On one of my return trips to my native county from Canada, I was perturbed to see it had been pulled down . ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth by Peter Giles

I went to St Catherine's from about the age of 7 in 1958 along with my siblings. Some of my best friends were Sandra Humphries, who wanted to be a pop singer and I remember she had a great voice, Gillian ...Read more

A memory of Barton Upon Irwell

I was one of a family of Seven children(two girls and five boys) born to Louise and George Tawn. We first lived at Pinkney park where my father was employed as a farm bailif. Due to his affair with the farmers wife we were ...Read more

A memory of Malmesbury by mahoneyrosie21

First to Ingram Infants then to Beulah Boys then to Ingram Boys. Remember the Davis Theatre the Flee Pit on the corner of Surrey Street and Scarbrook Road. The Red waistcoat man who sold curtains and the Sarsparilla Van . I was a ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by johnsperthnews

I was born in February 1941 and have vague memories of living in Watchet sometime in 1943/1944 for a period of almost two years. My mother (Kathleen/Kitty) and her sister (Olive) rented a house which I believe was on the Doniford Road. ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by john_elst

I remember this place during WW2. It was all closed up but we used to find a way in and were sometimes chased off. We called it the "White Cafe". All that was in the 1940s when I was only a young child. I went back in the ...Read more

A memory of Kinmel Bay by ann.mervyn

I remember this place during WW2. It was all closed up but we used to find a way in and were sometimes chased off. We called it the "White Cafe". All that was in the 1940s when I was only a young child. I went back in the ...Read more

A memory of Kinmel Bay by ann.mervyn

I used to drink in The Woodman on occasion as I lived on the Clock House Farm Estate between 1957 and 1962 when I was married just across the road in St Peters.Question,what happened to the board with the pilots names on it ...Read more

A memory of Woodmansterne by Tony Arkell

My memories of Mexborough were playing by the canal down ferry boat lane of church street , canal barges would come along and we would open the old bridge and let them through and the boat man would throw us pennies for our help. We would ...Read more

A memory of Mexborough by lalmond321