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I was born and bred in Llandrygarn, I lived at Cwter Hywel, I've really only got good memories of my childhood living in Llandrygarn, when you consider that you had to make your own entertainment. My friends were a group of lads ...Read more

A memory of Llandrygan

My paternal grandparents, Wright and Bertha Veall, lived in Ewyas Harold for many years at their small farm named, 'Woodside' situated on a hill about a mile from the village centre and just off the road to ...Read more

A memory of Ewyas Harold in 1940 by Brian Veall

My great-grandmother, Mrs Clara Burr, had the Supply Store in Halling Road for many years from the early 1900s. She had been widowed in 1903 when her two sons, my grandfather Rowland and his brother Norman, were babies. When ...Read more

A memory of Halling in 1900 by Mary Rogers

My father Clifford Egan passed away at 80 years old on the 27th July last year, 2010. He was brought up in Kirbymoorside and had wanted to return there for a visit for many years, but due to ill health he didn't make it back. ...Read more

A memory of Kirkbymoorside in 1930 by Kevin Egan

I remember many happy days in the 1940-50s spent by the river near the bridge. It was here that I saw my first otter, we also used to fish from off the bridge. When the 8 a.m train used to go to Blandford, if the driver saw ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1948 by David Moon

It is the 1960s, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are the music everyone is listening to and three young eighteen year old boys with a tent and a boat and some basic camping equipment set off from Saltash Passage where they ...Read more

A memory of Calstock in 1964 by Elizabeth H

We lived in Dale Road, right near the bottom of Downscourt Road and we spent a lot of time on Riddlesdown because it was near to where we lived.  When we got a bit older, we used to walk along the downs towards Kenley ...Read more

A memory of Riddlesdown in 1951 by Liz Williams

I attended here circa 1969/70 for one year. I hated every minute. I lived about 3 miles away and we had to get a bus there every morning.

A memory of Barnston in 1969 by Beverley Sharp

                                    Wrottesley Park 92 Wrottesley Park, it was a nice address, a suggestion of elegance perhaps, a hint of grandeur even. However there was nothing grand about the place we lived in even ...Read more

A memory of Wrottesley Park in 1952 by Kathy Daulman

I was a 16 year old boy and lived with my family on a hillside opposite Tunstead quarry known as The Lees. Every Sunday morning I would pick up the papers (News of the World , People etc) on my bicycle from the post office in Peak Dale, ...Read more

A memory of Wormhill in 1952 by Don Edwards