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I was four when my parents, Geoff and Pyll Kleboe, bought Keepers Cottage, Henfold Lane, Newdigate. A Mrs Thompson and her husband "Blackberry Jack" had lived there for many years and the property was very run down. With ...Read more

A memory of Newdigate in 1951 by Sarah Rashbrooke

My dad Neville Gerry was born in Sandwich Road in 1949, he was the youngest of 5 children. He was not what you would call a model son as he used to follow my grandmother home after she took him to school. I spent many a ...Read more

A memory of Eythorne by Lorraine Gould

I live in France, but many of my ancestors come from Dorchester on Thames. It's too complicated to go into the history of how I managed to be living here on the border with Spain, but for me Dorchester is ...Read more

A memory of Warborough in 2010 by David Monks

I was born in Shirley in 1935. My parents had married a year earlier and moved to a new semi detached house (cost seven hundred and twenty-five pounds) in the new housing estate. They came from crowded row houses in ...Read more

A memory of Shirley in 1945 by David Roberts

I was born in 1964 in Richard Murray Hospital Consett and lived with my mum Margaret and grandmother Milly in St Ives Road, Leadgate. My grandmother Milly and grandfather Charlie Faragher had lived at 45 St Ives Road ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1964 by Lynne Evans

My husband was stationed at RAF Acklington. I used to collect my marriage allowance at the post office. I recall a VERY cold day waiting for a bus. I had just returned from the heat of the Far East and was unaware how ...Read more

A memory of Red Row in 1959 by Rosemarie Hodge

I lived in a terraced cottage with a family named Hatch. Mrs. Hatch ran the grocers and the post office in 1969. My daughter Cassie was just over a year old and used to play on the porch between the house and the store. She ...Read more

A memory of Mixbury in 1969 by Don Colley

I lived at Trenholme Bar in Station House next to the Forth family. Across the road lived a lady called Mrs Jobling, her late husband had been a tailor. This house was demolished to make way for the new road. My brother and ...Read more

A memory of Trenholme Bar in 1956 by Malcolm Hall

During the early Second World War years there was considerable construction along the Barton beach and the cliff top to hinder any possible designs of the dastardly twins on our rural paradise. These constructions used to be a major ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1951 by Roger Williams

My sister and I spent many an evening at the Ritz. I remember that sometimes we would be the only people in the cinema sometimes. You could buy a ticket and if you liked the movie you could just stay in the cinema and see it again for no ...Read more

A memory of Selby by Nadean Simmons