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My Father Ted Pelling lived next door to the Holes at Yarmer Cottages in Poling and he told me that Charlie Hole worked on Ingrams Farm.

A memory of Poling in 1940 by Alec Pelling

I was born in Brighton Road, number 130, in 1930, it is now known as Jubilee Road. I went to St Peter & Paul School 1935 -1944. Itwas agreat place to live in, we used to spend days in Sniggery Woods & go collecting golf-balls on ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1930 by Alfred Moran

My grandparents Charles Butcher and Nellie Florence Baldock worked at the Asylum and my Great Grandfather was a waggoner there. He resided with his family at Asylum Cottages. I would be pleased to have any information relating to ...Read more

A memory of Chartham in 1910 by Sally Sharp

I was born in Fernham in 1936 in the thatched cottage on the green (now known as Corner Cottage, opposite the church), as was my mother before me. The house was my grandmother's, Mrs Mary Brown. My grandfather Harry ...Read more

A memory of Fernham in 1940 by Terry White

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

My grandfather Thomas Roland Mallaby was born in Rose Cottage, Spennithorne on the 15th January 1883. I have found a grave in the church for Thomas Berry, his wife Rachael and Thomas's daughter Hannah. My great-grandfather John ...Read more

A memory of Spennithorne in 1880 by Leithia Bell (Mrs)

Just before the Second World War was declared we moved to my grandmother's house at Long Crendon, as she felt it safer from us. (Some hope, as Brize Norton wasn't far away, nor was Oxford). Her house was called Lower ...Read more

A memory of Long Crendon in 1930 by John Nurcombe

My grandparents lived in Scarlett Cottages in Cowden. He was killed in the lst world war after which my grandmother moved away. My mum, aunt and uncle were 5 & 7 at the time. I know they were frienly with a lad whose ...Read more

A memory of Cowden in 1910 by Myra Holliday

Yea, I used to live in Brickfield Cottage just across from the swing bridge, and I remember carrying Nipper over that bridge with a compound fracture of his thigh, as he fell off the Wigs sheds, lol, we were borrowing pigeons from the sheds, lol.

A memory of Runcorn in 1949 by John Millward

My dad is Sam Collins who lived at Wisteria Cottage on railway crossing. He was born there in 1926 and left to join the army in 1943. He is 84 years old now and lives in Maidenhead, Berks. His memory of this ...Read more

A memory of Brockenhurst in 1943 by Linda Stevens