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I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

Fond memories of Summer 1970. I was sixteen, had just taken my ‘O’Levels in Bramhall, Cheshire, (back then Abersoch was known as Bramhall-by-Sea, perhaps it still is?). I had snared a Summer job as a lowly kitchen ...Read more

A memory of Abersoch by Ian Mason

I was born at home in Avondale Rd, Rayleigh Essex in 1958. We moved to Canvey Island & then in 1963 we relocated to Australia. I only have a few memories of Rayleigh & the most predominant was Snows Farm ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh by shadow.1958

Sorry to everyone but my memories will be vague as I left the area when I was 3yrs old, to live in Victoria dwellings Battersea Park Road. The family name was Batt Nan Grandad my uncles Terry & Micky shared the house ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by rosaria1

Yes. Compton Bassett = great memories I was stationed a the RAF base there - No. 3 School of Radio Training- had many a walk over the hill to the chalk white horse - about half a mile from the camp in ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1957 by Thomas Mirfield

My parents owned the Hotel and I was introduced to it when I returned home from Bangor Hospital. I lived there for many years and can remember Kath's recollections of people 12 deep at the bar and ...Read more

A memory of Abersoch in 1961 by Debbie Tissot

My earliest memories are of the married quarters, well into the interior of the barracks of the Dorset Regiment. My father had escaped the poverty of the East End of London in 1923. By 1937 he was ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1930 by Peter Giles

With reference to the Polish Motor Torpedo Boat houseboat in the photo ('Hippocampus/S-8/HMTB 427'), I have done some more research using the local Electoral Registers (held in Winchester and ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon by Tim Deacon

I remember my childhood in Salford very well. We lived on Clarendon Road and I went to Liverpool Street Girls' School. The headmistress was a Mrs Chrighton and the music teacher was a Miss Jones. We used to walk to school ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Anne Atkin

While still at Helston Grammar School, I worked at the Headland Hotel during one summer. Pickles was the manager, he was a tyrant but I seemed to get the better of him. I wrecked the lawn-mower running over a rock ...Read more

A memory of Coverack in 1967 by Steve Gilvear