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I'm doing my family tree and I have come across my great great great grandfather, William Sayer, living at Ley's Farm Village, Marsh Baldon. Could anyone help me with any information on this farm or village it would be ...Read more

A memory of Marsh Baldon by Sylvia Sykes

My mum grew up in a house called Fernlea in West Ashling. She was the youngest of 8 children by Ron and Frances Marsh. Frances was also known as Cissy and was a Kennett - who had been in West Ashling when she was a ...Read more

A memory of West Ashling in 1890 by Liz Purkiss

In 1944, when I was six, bombs dropped at the end of our road in N. Mitcham (Caithness Road) rendering our home, and others, uninhabitable, and after spending one night at Woodland Way Community Hall we were ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by Frances Innes

I lived at number 14 from 1952 until about 1961. I used to walk to the post office, run by a Mr Green, to get my Mum's cigarettes and sometimes in the summer an homemade ice lolly, a square of lemon ice on a stick. As a brownie ...Read more

A memory of Isle of Grain

My nannie lived on East Street, which had a break in the street to go through the allottments. My nannie was called Hilda Lee, nee Marsh. I have fond memories too of Grandad Lee who passed away when I was around ...Read more

A memory of Darfield by Vicky Ogden

I moved to Fleggburgh in about 1996/97? I moved in with my father who had owned Elvaston Cottage for a few years. The house was a very thick walled place with large fire places and tons ...Read more

A memory of Fleggburgh in 1997 by Daniel Hastings

I came to Southminster to join the Staff (there were actually just 2 teachers and a headmistress) at the new infants school in 1963. It was a long warm autumn and my husband and I being newly married lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Southminster in 1963 by Patricia Hardy

The road in the picture, St Mildred's, is where I grew up, opposite the "rec". As a young lad growing up, Minster offered all sorts of adventures; the marshes, the river Stour, Watchester Lane, the woods, fishing, ...Read more

A memory of Minster by Andrew Hankin

I attended Embleton Infants School and Embleton Junior Mixed School which were structurally attached but otherwise separate from September 1957 until July 1963. At that time the staff were very respectable ...Read more

A memory of Southmead in 1957 by Timothy Purnell

My father Stan Wilson grew up in a cottage on the marshes at West Thurrock where his father was the resident engineer for the adjacent Pumping Station (Sewage?). The 1939 census shows the family ...Read more

A memory of West Thurrock by alandvi.187