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I started at Rosary Priory in 1953 when I was 8 and left at 18. I was so happy there that our 2 daughters attended the senior school until we moved to Wiltshire. When I first started at RP the only building was the ...Read more

A memory of Bushey Heath in 1953 by Denise Davies

I am from Ellesmere Port, in the 1950s we always took our summer holidays at my Aunty Annie's in Manton. Hardwick Road West. Her full name was Mrs A Gornall and she was headmistress at Lincoln Street School, Worksop. We also used to ...Read more

A memory of Gateford in 1950 by Tom Owen

The records show that. Charlotte Sleeman 1848 marrried William Moxsom 1833? and at some time lived at Boscawen Row. They had 9 Children? William Ernest: Alice:1875 Louisa Kate:1871 (Maud ) my Grandmother.1873; Edward ...Read more

A memory of Truro in 1860 by Pamela M Smith

Our parents bought Little thatch in the 1970's as a weekend cottage, and we loved it. One night, staying there with my husband, we heard a rapping on the front door. The time was very late pm, and we ...Read more

A memory of Ogbourne St Andrew in 1982 by Catherine Mackenzie

Bristol's historic King Street. The Llandoger Trow inn on right of photograph.King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend

What a surprise to find a picture of Pinehurst Caravan Park, very likely the only postcard to survive! The site was in Hewarts Lane, Rose Green. My late mother and my great-aunt purchased a caravan 'Romany' on the site and ...Read more

A memory of Aldwick in 1958 by Colin Read

My memories of Sancton are happy childhood ones, my grandmother lived here from 1901 and when she moved to Leeds many years later I was taken back to Sancton to visit my aunt and uncle Albert and ...Read more

A memory of Sancton in 1969 by Julie Mcgrath

HENRY I REMEMBER. Billericay to Galleywood was a nice pony & trap ride, from where we lived in Goosberry Green - it took a bout an hour. No rush a long days, even a stop because good clean grass grew on the verges, & the ...Read more

A memory of Billericay