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There is a sense of history by walking along Church Street with its deep guttering, for the times when and where horses were the transport and along to the Church, the Palace Of Eastry, Eastry Court and then Eastry farm and the C. ...Read more

A memory of Eastry by Michael Mitchell

In the 1950's I lived in Dawpool Cottages, was in the choir at St Bartholomew's and went to Dawpool C of E primary and then Caldy Grammar. Life was long summers of the beach or the common and playing out till dark. The ...Read more

A memory of Thurstaston by David Blundell

In the late 1950's and early 60's we as a family used to carry all our bags from Currock to Carlisle station to catch the train to Silloth. We didn't seem to mind the distance as we were on a rare day away, and together. My memories ...Read more

A memory of Silloth by Bill Tweedie

My family used to go every Whit week to a guest house run by a Mrs Bradshaw at this end of the promenade, late 1950s - early 1960s. It was very special. Driving towards the seafront the road went steeply ...Read more

A memory of Pwllheli by Caroline Smedley

I remember camping with my family down in the field just inland from the Towers. The site is now just for caravans, I think. My father would catch eels in the small streams which ran across the field down to the sea, and mum ...Read more

A memory of Reculver by Richard Furminger

Heronhill , off Weensland Road was the mansion house where there was a boarding school for about fifty four girls and a few very small boys. The school was called St Helen's, between 1945 and 1949. The headmistress and owner was Miss Jean ...Read more

A memory of Hawick

Relating to the story of Roger Pickett; I also was born in 1952 (January) and lived in Lucas Rd with my nan, Kitty Rayment, and my mum, Joyce, and family from the age of 3. So Roger, we were near neighbours! My maiden name then was Linda ...Read more

A memory of Grays by Linda Deaville

Please see my Rayleigh message. I am looking for any and all history on the above building situated at the bottom of the London Road Rayleigh but it came under Rawreth until fairly recent history. It once had 180 acres and was ...Read more

A memory of Rawreth

I spent some classic country living in Ansley Common during the later war years. Walking home from nursery school I would often be ducking for cover under hedges as low flying fighter planes would scream overhead. The ...Read more

A memory of Ansley Common by Brian Riggs

The Evans sisters, their donkeys, and their Kindergarten School are a substantial part of my childhood memories. We lived around the corner from them, and we were sometimes boarded there when our parents ...Read more

A memory of Barton on Sea by Edward Williams