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I think you need to get a bit further back in history to find anything about the Old Reading Room which you describe as "High Trees", Long Lane.  In the thirties my parents rented Ploverfield Lodge Cottage which ...Read more

A memory of Old Milton in 1930 by Belinda Heathcote

I lived in Trallong at this time. I was 7 years old. I lived in a cottage next to the school and the church on top of the steep curving hill which led down to the vicarage. The vicar was Mr Lewis and his daughter Carol and I ...Read more

A memory of Trallong in 1947 by Bernard Morris

I was a pupil at St Catherine's School between 1954 and 1962. The school was run by Ralph and Joyce Cooper. Teachers I remember are Mr Thunder, art teacher, Mr Smith, and Miss Muriel Stottart, who taught ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1954 by Maurice Fountain

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

The view is looking over Holborn Hill towards Black Combe. Holborn Hill is old Millom, the new part of Millom was built when iron ore was discovered in 1855 at Hodbarrow and the iron works was built and Hodbarrow mines ...Read more

A memory of Millom in 1940 by Ian Jordison

There are many people better qualified than I to write about Meonstoke, but this photo evokes memories of the Cooke's, who ran the village shop with cheerful kindness and where we shopped for essentials - ...Read more

A memory of Meonstoke in 1960 by Herry Lawford

In about 1960 this spot was a hang out for the local teenagers - myself being one! Out of the pic and to the left was a youth centre run by the church (the local vicar lived next door to that) and after doing whatever we did there ...Read more

A memory of Cleadon by Stewart Wood

Morley was a funny old chap, he ran a top bakery but was rather miffed when 'these 'ere new fangled electric vehicles' started being used for home deliveries ... his response was as the previous poster related - to pull his ...Read more

A memory of Worcester Park by malcshee

I was born in Horden in 1946 (Elizabeth Lumley) and my father (George Lumley) (and his father before him) ran Lumley's grocery store which was on the bank top (21 Beech Terrace - now a house but the United bus stop is still callled ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1950

My lovely memories are of going to South Shields from London to stay with my mum's brother, we stayed in Marsden Street and my cousins lived round the corner. We would leave London about 5 ...Read more

A memory of South Shields in 1950 by Margaret Foyle