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My father was a band master in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (regular army). I was born in India in 1939 and my mother and father had to come back to England at the start of the Second World War. I can ...Read more

A memory of Catterick in 1943

This lovely cottage looks like the one which was located near where I used to live and go to school back in the 1960s. If I am right then the curved space in the bottom right of this picture was the boundary of a ...Read more

A memory of Balsham in 1969 by Judith Tack

Well our address was quite easy , Fairy Cross, Near Bideford, North Devon. Tel. Horns Cross 328   !! Our mail always found us with no problems at all. There were not a lot of us there in those days. We lived in Headons Cottage, it ...Read more

A memory of Fairy Cross in 1962 by Derek England

I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the ...Read more

A memory of Great Haywood in 1956 by Anne Forster

We moved to Rustington in 1949 as my Mother Dr Mary Higgs was the M.O.H. at Zachary Merton and was the doctor there until her retirement. Zachary Merton was a lovely hospital to have a baby, all the ...Read more

A memory of Rustington in 1950 by Jo Berryman

Hi old Delamerites! My name is Marilyn Levy. I was sent to Delamere at the age of six, and remember crying myself to sleep every night. I probably annoyed all the girls in that dormitory with the notion that I was ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1955 by Marilyn Levy

Looking at the photo of the row of houses from the top of Fen Street, the house nearest the camera was owned by my grandparents, Betty and Hans Claus and my mother Ann who at that time was about 8 years old (1959). The 3rd ...Read more

A memory of Stilton by Rebecca Bassett

I was born in Tythby in 1948. Rose Cottage on the Cross Roads of Tythby. Church on one corner, Miss Cox's house on another and Bagleys's farm on the other. The youngest of the eight Williamsons. Ours was a full ...Read more

A memory of Tithby in 1948 by Gillian Emerton

I would to hear anyone who was born in this hospital the same time as me in July 6th 1956, and any nurses and doctors etc that got me delivered. Please write to me by post. Mrs Gail J Gray 17, Gunthorpe Road ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1956 by Gail Mrs Gray

The large house to the left of this photograph is my chidlhood home, Brynderwen. It is at the bottom of Field Street , opposite the Con Club, next to the Surgery. My father was one of the local Doctors who ...Read more

A memory of Pen-y-graig in 1961 by Jan Thomas