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Not really a memory but just wondering if anyone can recall my nan, Millicent Ferris, nee Barfoot. I didn't really know her but my father has told me stories about her and if anyone knew her, either from Hedge End or even when ...Read more

A memory of Hedge End by Lee Ferris

I remember travelling from Newport to Dundee (and back) many times on the ferry. I know there were two boats but I can't remember their names. I have a feeling one was THE ALICIA CRAIG ?? but not sure. Can anyone help with the names or photos, or both please.

A memory of Dundee in 1952 by Joan Hall

This is not actually a memory, but after finding this photograph I just had to write and say that in the little ferry going across the River Wear is either my great grandad or great granduncle, if that is the right terminology.  I ...Read more

A memory of Lumley Castle in 1890 by Yvonne Crawley

My Great Grandfather was the Ferryman from East Mersea to Brightlingsea, he was Horatio Charles Mole. There are many family members on the Island but somehow the ones I am in touch with cannot find the house where he lived at the time ...Read more

A memory of East Mersea in 1930 by Dorothy Joyce Cox

I can recall going to the Tithe Barn in 1961 where they were holding a jumble sale, and buying my mother a wind up gramophone for a shilling. There were some old 78's with it which mum kept for many years. I was 8 at the time and ...Read more

A memory of Bishop's Cleeve by Bill Palmer

Anybody from Hope / Caergwle, got any photos, handbills, posters, paper cuttings etc..on the boxing brothers the Fighting Fieldings? Obviously I would pay for them, as I'm researching for doing a book on boxers from North ...Read more

A memory of Caergwrle in 1930 by John Griffiths

I have just returned from London and I was checking to see if there were any photos of Finchley Road and Lymington Road. I was born at No 8 Depot Cottages and stayed there until my dad passed away in 1959. My ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1950 by Derek Paul

My great grandfather was Enoch Williams at one time Superintendent of the Fire Station at 1 High Street. He went to Bridgnorth from Gt Whitley in 1894. I have photos of the fire crew of ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1900 by Sue Oliver

The Grosvenor was used as a fire (station 8 then became station B10) and ambulance station until the lease ran out in the late 1970s. The ambulance station was the first to move out, followed 12 months later by the fire ...Read more

A memory of Whitland in 1975 by Julian Orchard

I have a photo of my glamorous mother in front of the First and Last House when three lines once sprawled across its roof— F I R S T  &  L A S T H O U S E   I N E  N  G  L  A  N  D .She stands poised upon a rock ‘fore the ...Read more

A memory of Land's End in 1940 by Rm Gal