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My great grandmother Eliza Clarke was born at the Plough Inn Norwell in 1866. Her father George Clarke was the landlord at the time.

A memory of Norwell in 1860 by Graham Barnett

My father Tony Wonfor was born in Hythe in 1932, his parents John William and Hannah Victoria. My grandparrents lived there until the outbreak of the Second World War. Tony had two brothers, George and John, and a sister Letty. John ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1930 by Colin Wonfor

Plough Corner always makes me smile, remembering the floods in the 1960s, Byfleet was cut off everywhere except where I lived in the Dawson Road end. My boyfriend lived in Rectory Lane. Imagine, everything was cut off, there was water ...Read more

A memory of Byfleet by Christine Woodruff

My gran and grandad, Elsie and Jim Harman, lived at 4 The High Street.  My earliest memories are of, strangely, the moss-covered footpath that encircled the cottage on three sides, it was how pathways in old cottages should ...Read more

A memory of Grateley by Kim Burnett

My Great, Great Grandfather, Thomas Evans was the original owner of The Plough. While doing some research into my family tree I discovered in the 1861 Wales Census that he was listed as a farmer(owner of 10 acres of ...Read more

A memory of Gresford in 1860 by Gail Lalonde

I see the Eight Bells, right next to the Palmer Hall. I was too young to drink in the pub at the time of this photograph, but this was a very convenient situation in later years. At the time of the photo my family had been living in The ...Read more

A memory of Fairford in 1948 by Geoffrey Herbert

First holiday away without mum and dad. Not yet eighteen and big wories about being served in The Kinmel, crikey, they served anyone! The gang included Nick Worsley, Chris Booth, Pete Clough, Sally Taylor and many more ...Read more

A memory of Moelfre in 1975 by Paul Selby

I moved to Portland Terrace in Ripple with my mum, dad and sister when I was about 6. (We moved in to deal when I was 16.) I went to Ripple Primary School.  My dad worked behind the bar in the Plough pub for a while.  My mum worked at Ripple ...Read more

A memory of Ripple in 1976 by Michele Hoy

In July 1959, I was born at home, to Eric and Ann Shields in Coldharbour village.  My father was the village policeman; we lived in what was then the police house, which was situated next to the village shop opposite ...Read more

A memory of Coldharbour in 1959 by Rosemary Shields

I remember this bridge from when I was little and living in Higher Denham. We often walked into the village this way, past the lovely brick wall and past the hut where we got free orange juice after the war. My grandmother ran ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1950 by Jennifer Schinkel