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This photo shows me, my mother and two of my sisters walking home, in either 1967 or 1968. I am the small boy looking back towards the camera. We lived in a bungalow not visible in the photo, on the left hand side almost opposite the large ...Read more

A memory of Over in 1967 by Sean Baker

I remember Ramsdons living at Betton House in the 1940s - 50s.  I myself lived at Moss Lane Farm, Betton from 1939 to 1959.  My fathers name was Arthur Holland.  I also remember delivering the newspapers to Betton ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1948 by First Name Last Name

My Family moved to the house to the left of the school gates in 1957, before the school was built. I lived there until 1965 when I married and moved to the USA. My brother went to this school, and I used to cut across the field to ...Read more

A memory of Farnham Common in 1957 by Jill Trimble

My family and I relocated to Llangattock in or about 1955/6.  We came from the American army camp at Dan-yr-Park.  I rather think that the local people thought we were aliens of some sort and regarded us somewhat disdainfully and not ...Read more

A memory of Llangattock in 1955 by David Palfrey

Both my wife and myself work at the school. It is a fantastic place to work and live. We are also able to visit the church next door where Wordsworth was married. Many of the original features of ...Read more

A memory of Brompton-by-Sawdon by Jim Roberts

I was at the village school from June '54 when we moved to a new house in Grange Road, until '59 when I and 3 others went to the Grammar school in EG.  I remember Mrs Fry the school cook, (mentioned in another memory) from when I was a ...Read more

A memory of Crawley Down by Graham Uren

When I first came to Pentraeth in 1950, I became very intrigued by the nicknames attached to certain individuals. In fact, they were better known by their nicknames than by their own names. One ...Read more

A memory of Pentraeth in 1950 by James Griffiths

In this picture I lived in the house with the porch sticking out, just past the pub THE BLACK BULL (white building). Up the side of my house, or country cottage as it was termed, was a slaughter house at the back.  I worked in Patons & Baldwins in Darlington textile mill as a woolsorter. Malcolm

A memory of Great Smeaton in 1964 by lesmalc27

Tiverton is an attractive market town in mid-Devon but I have to confess I had never heard of it until the first of the family moved here in 2005! Elizabeth and I were spending a weekend in Exeter with our son ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 2005 by John Howard Norfolk

Very sketchy memories - maybe someone will fill the blanks. My father was RAF at the Wellington bomber base. I lived for a short period in a single row of cottages, near the base and a railway line. I had to cross the line over a small bridge ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1943 by Benny Davis