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I left the village in 1960. I attended the local junior and infant school. The teachers I recall were Miss Whitehead, Miss Jenkins, Miss James, Granny Chancellor (she was a lovely lady who taught most of our parents also, those that ...Read more

A memory of Waun Lwyd by Ian Calloway

I lived in Erbistock till the age of 20, that was in 1981 when I emigrated to Australia. My mum still lives there, my dad passed away a couple of years ago, he was born in Erbistock and lived down Groves Lane for nearly 70 years. I ...Read more

A memory of Erbistock by Gwyn Willmott

I wrote this piece for a writing group exercise in April/May 2019, near my home in NE Scotland. LIttle did I know then that some of the memories would form part of my Mum's Eulogy just three months later. The ...Read more

A memory of Wembley by shea.carol

I would walk up South road down the duel carriageway and up Horndean hill to our little school . In the village we past a shop that I remember smelt of paraffin. It was ran by Bossy Catchlove you name it she had it. I loved my childhood in ...Read more

A memory of Horndean by maureen-slaughter

The sign to the Car Park is the main location clue, - along with the blocky concrete structure alongside the Shelter, the sloping timber launching ramp for boats, and the beginning of the drainage-outfall's concrete ...Read more

A memory of Thorpe Bay by julian

Ruby Gowen born Stokesby 1933 now known as Elizabeth Robinson. Among my early memories is being taken “down the Ferry” to see the steamship the Queen of the Broads go by. First in the distance the smoke would appear and ...Read more

A memory of Stokesby by lizbeth.robinson

I was born in February 1941 and have vague memories of living in Watchet sometime in 1943/1944 for a period of almost two years. My mother (Kathleen/Kitty) and her sister (Olive) rented a house which I believe was on the Doniford Road. ...Read more

A memory of Watchet by john_elst

In 1966 my first job was as an office junior for the Bought Leger Department at Findus for Nestle on the 18th floor. One of my jobs was to open the post and someone sent in their false teeth because they had bitten into a fish ...Read more

A memory of Croydon by triciariver50

I moved to 71 Hildenborough Crescent, Allington, Maidstone, Kent in 1973 aged 10 years old. In the nine years I lived there I saw many changes. Parts of Allington were still being built. There were no houses built in between the ...Read more

A memory of Allington by Andrew Parker

We knew this spot as Brown's Fields.  Farmer Brown had the dairy in Broad Street and used to drive his cows down the lane by the Lynch. In summer time we used to go down to the river to play and have picnics. In the winter time it ...Read more

A memory of Somerton by Denise Lazenby