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My family lived on the Royal Air Force housing estate in Raleigh Road at the top of the hill in 1968-1969. I remember cutting down through the most beautiful meadow and through the Church to the shops. The village was ...Read more

A memory of Padstow by tara1999

In 1952 my newly widowed mother bought Grove Cottage - which was in Grove Lane (since called Malting Lane) and lived there for a while before renting it out to an American Airforceman named Robert Whaley, and his family, ...Read more

A memory of Ellington

Hi Paul I first encountered the Priory in 1965 when i became friends with a boy who lived there and was invited to the annual summer fancy dress party( all Priory parties were fancy dress back then) Residents of the household were Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Staines by barbara.kennedy6

I was born in 1951 and lived for the first 2 years of my life at 241 the Blocks with my parents and Grandparents. This was a 2 up 2 down + attic house in a block of 3 situated on the bottom row of the blocks, now ...Read more

A memory of Barrow Hill in 1951 by Paul Gibbons

In the early 50's many streets in Uxbridge were still lit by gas. So "lighting up time" had a whole different meaning. The iron lampposts were much lower than the lighting masts of today and were more widely placed along the ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1954 by Philip Cousins

I lived with my family (Matthews) at 223 High Street from 1955 until 1963, brother David, sisters Cynthia and Jackie, parents Rene and Reg. I think my parents bought the house in 1952 as my brother was born in the back ...Read more

A memory of Marske-By-The-Sea in 1955 by Kathy Browne

My mother, brother and I spent several months at Rosé Cottage in the early 1940s while my father was in hospital at Haukswell Hall. I was only 4 at the time.

A memory of Garriston in 1940

Can anybody help? My great grandad Edward Edwards was born in Welshampton in 1858, but as a child, I think, he went to live in Hordley in a home called Marsh Cottage. As a young man he went to live & work in Manchester. I know ...Read more

A memory of Hordley in 1860 by Alan Edwards

This could not have been as early as 1960 as at that time the Post Office was in a single storey lean-to structure at the right of the main cottage. The main floor of the cottage was converted to the new ...Read more

A memory of Burton in 1968 by David Wilson

My father worked for Bristol Water Works and we lived at Pitt Cottage from 1948 until 1956 when it was demolished. We then moved to Doversdown, Whitesfield Road and I worked for Horlicks Dairies in ...Read more

A memory of Nailsea in 1948 by Keith Phillips