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I used to be a frequent visitor to Chorley Hall as a young boy accompanying my mother and grandmother. The Hall and farm were tenanted by Joe Davis and he married Annie Bower who was my grandmother's sister-in-law and hence ...Read more

A memory of Alderley Edge in 1953 by Nigel Wylde

A Sunday day out from New Brighton with my family, playing French cricket on the field above the mere, I watched the rowing boats. In 1958 I went a ride there on my bike one day. I wanted a row on the boat. The gentleman in ...Read more

A memory of Raby by David Lawton

Hi, I would love to hear from anyone that may have memories of Yorkletts in the late 1960s. I used to spend a lot of time in the village, spending all my school hols with my gran who lived in a ...Read more

A memory of Yorkletts in 1968 by Sharon Searle

I remember riding bikes on Loveclough park in the late night sunshine with Stene. No worries in the world; early 1980s. The place was buzzing with youngsters and not a parent in sight. Freedom; not like now. Kids are not ...Read more

A memory of Love Clough by Tony Poole

I moved to Stubbington as a 6 year old to the Red Lion Estate. My father like so many  on that estate was in the Royal Navy based at Portsmouth. I remember Foster's school and especially the daffodils by the ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by Lorraine Emery

The best years of my life, I loved Blandford Camp and everything about it, swinging high on the swings singing songs, going to Blandford primary school (as it was callled then), roller skating around the camp, bike rides to the ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp in 1970 by Gillian Jackson

For many years in the late 1960s and early 1970s our parents packed up our 2 old cars and brought us 4 children from London and Yorkshire to Scratby. We would rent any number of holiday cottages, one called ...Read more

A memory of Scratby in 1968 by Ruth Brackpool

I remember travelling to Southend with my family on a steam train from London.  My sister and I use to put our heads out of the windows.  More often than not when we sat down our faces would be black with soot from the ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1958 by Jan Rennie

What happy times, on holiday with my parents and my brother Ray in a little caravan site just down this road over looking the Creek itself. Next door to us 3 lads from Birmingham had come to stay, us being from ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island in 1964 by Mrs Christine A Fellows

My mother and father moved to 1 Birch Hill Cottages when I was in arms.  I went to the tiny school in Newtown by mini bus which was really a Bedford van with seats in the back.  I played in the field with the ...Read more

A memory of North Boarhunt in 1959 by Vanessa Hillman(Nee Miles)