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This is a photo of Aelwyd Amanw, Brynaman. Brynaman was the first place in Wales to have its own building for running a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Although a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru had been established in the village since ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman by Sarah Hopkin

This picture shows St Mary Church which extended from west to east between Edinburgh Road (previously named Dock Wall Street), and James Street. It might have been taken from the top of The Column in Ker Street. The long ...Read more

A memory of Devonport by Terence Hawton

We lived from 1963 - 1972 in Wickford, all of us 3 children going to Wickford Junior school up Market Road. I can recall a man who used to paint lead soldiers from his house near the school. From 11 years of age I ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1967 by First Name Last Name

I was born in Garden Village, Billacombe in 1944 and lived there until I was 8 years old. My memories are very strong of walking up Pleasure Hill to Sunday School at Pomphlet, walking to and from Goosewell Infant School and ...Read more

A memory of Billacombe in 1944 by Jeffrey Smith

My father was farm manager at Orange Court Farm from 1964-1967. We lived in one of the cedar wood bungalows put up in Littleton, I suspect in the early 1960s, by the More-Molyneux family for estate workers - they also owned the ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1964 by Andrew Webb

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside. Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds. We can also ...Read more

A memory of Horley

I lived at the house on the left - The Chalet. I lived here from 1938 -1959. The eastern end of the house was the village shop and was known as Top View Stores. Records of the house were traced back as early as 1784. When the roof ...Read more

A memory of Ulrome in 1950 by Lawrence Elliott

I lived at the Swan from 1936 to about 1943 - below are some extracts from my memoirs. I hope you find them of interest. In about 1936 my father resigned, or to be more accurate was forced ...Read more

A memory of Newtown in 1930 by Howard Johnson

How amazing to read of another Huxley who married into the Waldron family in Clent. My great grandfather, William Huxley, married Ellen Waldron in 1867 and I believe her grandfather was Thomas Waldron, but have so far been ...Read more

A memory of Clent in 1860 by Sally Drew

Myself and my husband Roger had visited Soudley Ponds several times when travelling around during weekends away and my younger sister Mandy loved to listen to tales about where we had been and what we had seeing and ...Read more

A memory of Upper Soudley in 2007 by Jackie Suffolk