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A few days after starting school, I paid my first remembered visit to Fordingbridge Fair. A funfair visited Fordingbridge every year during the first week in September. It was situated in Church Square and in the land ...Read more

A memory of Fordingbridge in 1955 by Cathryn Candy

I was born in the Taplow Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in 1956. My mother told me when I was about 11 years old how I got my first name; at that time Wycombe General Hospital, Wycombe ...Read more

A memory of Taplow in 1956 by Mrs Gray Gail Jacqueline

I remember my happy days in Wallasey, being born in 1942 in Neston as Wallasey was struggling with bombing, then moving to Clifford Road, and having great times with friends. Stuart Youds, Brian Avery, Alexander Park and Keith ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1952 by John Fletcher

Hi, I own a black four door 1937 Austin Big Seven motor car. It was first purchased from Platers in Streatham.. Has any one an old photo of the garage/showroom? Or, do you know of the car, registration number; EXY 437. I ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1930 by Arthur Sainsbury

At the age of 7 I was told by my parents we all had to go to Wellesly Road to be fitted with a gas mask. I have a clear memory of this horrifying experience. It was one thing then another, upsetting my childhood world. First in 1939 I ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1940 by Michael Baker

Nicholas Girlington of Hackforth and Calton, Yorkshire (my 9th great grandfather) traded Sir Francis Tunstall the manor and lands of Hutton Longvillers, Yorkshire for Thurland in 1598. In 1612, ...Read more

A memory of Thurland Castle by Donald Johnson

Whilst visiting an elderly uncle in Kent about five years ago, he chanced to show me some old family photographs. Having a very accute memory I noticed a photograph of a man who I called uncle Bill, at his farm ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Rochford in 1944 by Keith Trotman

In the 50's Bertram Mills Circus used to come to town and I remember there was a great procession through the streets near the harbour, this included the elephants and the prancing horses! On Saturday mornings there ...Read more

A memory of Weymouth

I well remember Percy and Sylvia Knight at the Chad. Two of the nicest people you could ever meet. Great nights when along with Phill Eccleston on keyboards, I would sing in the pub. Sometimes all the band, Blue ...Read more

A memory of Hill Ridware by Leonard Tiso

I was born in 1954 in Queens Crescent, Horndean, to Vera and Jim Thomas (both deceased), I had an older brother Roland (deceased). During the war my dad was in the Horndean Homeguard before being called up and my mum ...Read more

A memory of Horndean by Roy Thomas