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It's just great to look at the old pictures of Blakeney's High Street, it seems almost like yesterday when I used to walk from my gran's house in the row of cottages where the railway bridge used to be. We used to go on ...Read more

A memory of Blakeney in 1955 by First Name Last Name

This is the photo in the distance of the house where I was brought up (from Dec 1952 to March 1964) with my three brothers, Michael, Alan and twin Roger, N° 1 Abbey Close. Our neighbours were Mr and Mrs Orchard with their ...Read more

A memory of Hythe in 1952 by Philip Streets

I used to go to Little Chart Farm, Pluckley as a child, being born in the East End in 1946.  My memories are of freedom and adventure, long, happy carefree days spent in the beautiful Kent countryside, for a few weeks each summer. My ...Read more

A memory of Pluckley in 1956 by Alexandra Mustin

My memories are of going to Mr Atturberries (the spelling of name may be wrong) to buy sweets and also just next door I think was the Salvation Army Hall, which a lot of the village ...Read more

A memory of Sompting in 1961 by Linda Milburn

I have never heard of this person, although he makes reference to some people, and places in Colden Common I knew. So if anyone who knows him ever comes across this then I have been some help! COLDEN COMMON? Oh, ...Read more

A memory of Colden Common by Bert Catt

North Anston is the place where i grew up we are a old Anston family, my maiden name was Foulds.I remember sledging in Butcher Orchard and landing in the river many times, we roamed al over the village and because every one knew ...Read more

A memory of North Anston by Gillian Hodgson

I moved to Hatfield Peverel in late 1941, after my family was bombed out in London. My father took the Duke of Wellington pub over, where we lived until 1949. Yes they were good years in the village, but at the ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Peverel in 1942 by Sylvia Cox Gromer

I remember when I was just a young teenager... you could roam around the village and just about everyone knew you. I loved to wander down to Mill Stream Lane with my jam jar and fishing net and walk along the stream ...Read more

A memory of Watton at Stone in 1968 by Joy Abbato

Since about the 1960s, Child Okeford became a totally different community from the one I first got to know in the early 1930's. The Watts (Harry and Dorothy) had farmed out of Laurel Farm for many decades and ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1930 by Pauline Bullen

I can remember my mother telling me that her family came from the Norchard Estate Bromsgrove Worcestershire. Can anyone tell me anything about that area ?Thank you.

A memory of Bromsgrove in 1860 by Eamon Martin