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My wife and myself are caretakers of Adam Lindsay Gordon Cottage, Dingleydell, near Port Macdonnell, South Australia, built 1862 and purchased by ALG in 1864. I am the present president of the Adam Lindsay Gordon ...Read more

A memory of Esslemont Ho by Allan Childs

The two were certainly there until 1939. They were small and in typical Victorian dress with 'chokers' etc. To me as a child they seemed about 80 but obviously that may be wrong. The shop was full of sweets in glass jars etc and ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Peter Pennington

Childhood memories The 'flowerpot men', 'weed', Amos and Andy, Big Ted, little Ted, Loopy Lou, Andy Pandy, Woodentops, spotty dog, gently 'supervised' by 'ma and pa', Jack and Jill, Miss Moffet, 'twinkle,twinkle little ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton by Allen Warrender

I grew up in Fazeley along with my little brother Glenn. Some of my best memories would be of the good summers we used to have when we would spend most of the school holidays swimming and fishing in the brook at Brook End. We would dam up ...Read more

A memory of Fazeley in 1962 by Michael Wright

Thanks to Mr T Richards for his historic knowledge of Overstrand, (and some delving into Overstrandonline) this is indeed the hotel which was built in 1903, suffered subsidence 1906, burnt down 1947 and subsequently ...Read more

A memory of Overstrand by Phil Dunning

My grandfather was a Highland gentleman who lived in Greenock for a short time, orginally coming from Luing, a small slate island. He came to this town during the war but going back periodically to the island. He brought my ...Read more

A memory of Greenock in 1967 by Maureen Mcfarlane

I grew up in Surrey Gardens, first at "Ceuta", then at White Croft. My father, Mr Crump, purchased the plot of land beside the footpath and the house was built 1947/8. During my childhood, Surrey Gardens ...Read more

A memory of Effingham by Angela Haddrill

I grew up in and lived in Bensham for the first 26 years of my life, albeit the last 5 of those years were spent in the Merchant Navy as a sea-going engineer. My first school was Chester Place School which was across the road from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Noel Kelly

My father's family was from Gurney Slade. His father was Alfred and his mother was Helen. Alfred was a gardener at a 'big house' - so I was told - before he moved to South Wales for work in the mining industry. My ...Read more

A memory of Gurney Slade in 1900 by Philip Hill

I was born in 1940 in Gillingham Kent , my Dad used to work for Short's the aircraft builders. We moved to Redhill when I was a baby. One of my earliest memories was seeing the Olympic Torch runner coming down Redstone Hill in ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1948 by Bruce Cordy