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Late 60's booked stay in Port Quin with N T. It has always been one of the most delightful places to have been to. I think it is what most people would call the perfect Cornish inlet. I have not been there for years but just hope it is still as beautiful as I remember.

A memory of Port Quin by Ken Eade

One of my earliest memories of school in Easington is of Miss Nicholson telling my mother, Alice Stephenson, nee Griffiths, that she would look out for me when I started at Easington Infants. Actually, I was never in ...Read more

A memory of Easington Colliery by Carol Donald

I lived in Camden Park Road back in the 1990's and I read Mr Arthur Battle's book, Edwardian Chislehurst, when I was living there. He was 90 when he wrote it, and it was published in 1988. It was fascinating to read his ...Read more

A memory of Chislehurst by Andrew Trent

My mother, Kathleen Cook in 1910, still has a photograph of Lexden Road gatehouse where a relative held position as porter.

A memory of Colchester in 1900 by Jennifer Read

Heading out of the village, our next port of call is the Scout Hut.  Was it still there?  Well the old gravel path that we used to walk or cycle up was blocked by new buildings. ...Read more

A memory of Groby in 1970 by John Hughes

We lived at 26 Stenton Drive at that time that mother was widowed. My mother, Katie, married my stepfather James Maule after being widowed. My father was James and his father was a saddler. Our house was burned down, there ...Read more

A memory of Wishaw in 1955 by Peter Chalmers

I am part of a research team looking into the history of schooling in Seaton Sluice. My era is 1945 to the school closing in July 1969 and I would like to hear from past pupils. I myself, was at the ...Read more

A memory of Hartley by Claire Mitchell

My memory spans several years relating to the church. My grandfather, Fred James, who lived in Carnon Downs, cared for the grounds and the older graves in the churchyard, mainly on a Saturday, and, during the ...Read more

A memory of Devoran by Philip James

Hello, used to stay in Seasalter from 1948 to 53 in a caravan on Alberta Park or Blue Anchor Park. Remember going on to the mud flats at low tide to see the crashed planes from the War, and cockleing and Mum cooking them and we would eat them for tea! Went back to Alberta 2011 - changed a bit.

A memory of Seasalter in 1948 by Brian Trimmer

My people were tinkers of the road. Power, Riley, Macarthur, O'Connor, Macallister and a few I have no knowledge of. Generations had mended tin, woven baskets, bunched broom and heather, one to sweep the floor the ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry in 1947 by Jess Smith