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Hi, has anyone got some pictures of the Warren in the 1960s? My mum spent holidays there and met my dad, I was born in 1967. My grandparents lived in the Warren. My parents split up just after a year and my father lives still in ...Read more

A memory of Gronant by Ann Hallam

Saw your Memory with interest. I have done two others on the site - people will think "He's vain", but hardly anyone else seems to have bothered. I can remember the smell of hops drying here in the 1950/60s. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Tonbridge in 1956 by Rodney Warrener

Reading Alan Gray's memories was a delight! My Mom, Edith Evans, ran Guides at HSM in 1958/9..... and only today were talking about her lieutenant, Mavis Long.... we used to call her Lefty! I remember Jean Jennings and June ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach St Marks in 1958 by Jackie Dunsford

I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always provided us with 2 week's holiday, if possible 'by the sea'. In 1951, Dad chose Dawlish Warren. ...Read more

A memory of Dawlish Warren in 1951 by Roy Beiley

It seems to be a wet summer this year but at long last a day when it wasn't actuially raining at breakfast time! We set off from our home in Tiverton to give granddaughter Anna a day at the seaside. The ...Read more

A memory of Dawlish Warren in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I was born in the bungalow at Lock 93 in the Hanwell Flight in 1936. I went to St Marks School in Hanwell and then on to Borderston School along the Boston Road. I grew up in the lockhouse and we had an avery, allotments and ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Jan Theobald

In the 1960s I took my parents to stay in a bungalow a short distance from the Warren House Inn. The bungalow was called The King's Oven, and we rented it for a week. It had been used as accomodation for the tin mine inspector when he ...Read more

A memory of Dartmoor by Rosemary Bennett

I stayed with my Great Aunt Evelyn Cramer Roberts in one half the "Cottages" (16C left hand side of the road going towards the station) during parts of my childhood and growing years between 1934 and 1956. In my ...Read more

A memory of Eridge Green in 1944 by Christine Winterbotham

1942-1955 - my very happy annual holiday from London with my Nain & Taid (Hannah & John Roberts) at Dystell House in Llanwrog. We used to carry water from the" pistyll" at the top of the field and where Captain their horse ...Read more

A memory of Ruthin by Peggy Roberts

The year 1977 onwards we lived in Barwick, we were called Fletcher and related to the Kirks who were builders on Potterton Lane. My grandma lived next door opposite the churchyard. My mother Betty was a Kirk. We played footy ...Read more

A memory of Potterton in 1977 by Darren Simpson