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As a child I swam in the sea next to the Sandwell Gate and the ruins of The Freemasons Arms which was an old pub that was on the Fish Sands. I remember sunny days, swimming and picnics with ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1969 by Ruth Savage

Not so much a memory for me as I am too young to actually remember Norman. Norman's name is among the list of brave young men that left the Heath and went to fight in the Second World War, he was the younger brother of my ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Heath in 1940 by Antony Garrett

My first visit to Barton-upon-Humber was in the early 1980s when my wife and I were searching for the graves of my ancestors. To our dismay, someone had removed all of the ...Read more

A memory of Barton-Upon-Humber by Tina Dyches

I live in France, but many of my ancestors come from Dorchester on Thames. It's too complicated to go into the history of how I managed to be living here on the border with Spain, but for me Dorchester is ...Read more

A memory of Warborough in 2010 by David Monks

I am trying to find out exactly where in Denmead my great uncle and aunt lived from the forties to the seventies. The wooden bungalow was called Forest View and had a very large garden. They kept bees and every year ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1945 by Faith Clements

There was Mr Jim Goynes, Mr Nicholson and his wife, Mr Hamer, Mr Oxley (the boys knew him as "Flump" although I never knew why). There was Mollie Manion (known as Matron), Mrs Nicholson was her assistant and ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall in 1953

This is where I first set eyes on my future wife. = I was working for Wimpeys at Greenham Common Air-Base, about 60 to 70 of us were lodging in an old army camp in Hamstead Norris that hade been taken over by ...Read more

A memory of Newbury in 1955 by Frank Mitchell

My memories are all in the mid 1950s when I used to visit my grandma and aunts and uncles. My father is commemorated on this war memorial and the vase seen on the left was one his brother had placed there. It was always filled with ...Read more

A memory of Witley in 1958 by Janet Savage

The trip to the graves was a ritual, we caught the Easthamstead bus sometimes, other times we as kids walked to the Church from Bullbrook (New Road), ever fearfull of the asylum opposite, with strange noises, screaming and ...Read more

A memory of Easthampstead by Colin Lennox

I was born in the War Memorial Hospital in 1954 my mother and father lived at 35 Ffynnonau, my father was born at Crickhowell on New Road. We visit every August and visit our grandparents' grave in St Edmund's ...Read more

A memory of Crickhowell by George Evans