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You have solved a mystery for me as I stayed here but didn’t spell the name correctly and friends and I, whom I first met there, have spent ages trying to trace the place. At the time I travelled there by train changing at ...Read more

A memory of Rhydymain by Anne Andrews

30 years just passed but it still seems present, the time I spent in Witheridge since 24 December to 1st January when I got back to London and then flied back to Italy. I spent splendid days by a family of ...Read more

A memory of Witheridge in 1978 by Guido Caramia

This photo shows in the foreground the rather substantial house lived in during the 1950s by the Barkus family, who owned the adjoining caravan site (to the right of the photo) and who served teas and refreshments for the ...Read more

A memory of Romney Street by Edgar Lukes

Good to see the photo of Herstmonceux in 1965 along Hailsham Rd. I was born outside the village in 1957, my father being the local Reverend from 1956 till 1973/4. The old car in the foreground was right ...Read more

A memory of Herstmonceux in 1965 by puck_productions

I am researching my Sims-Hilditch family tree. Does anyone remember Edwin Sims Hilditch at Castleigh, Haslington around 1931? And at Harmel House, High Street, Haslington around 1946? Are ...Read more

A memory of Haslington in 1946 by Anthea Beszant

Family history tells me that my grandfather, G J Morris, was the proprietor of this bakery before he died in 1940.  My uncle, H J Morris, ran the tobacconist, newsagent, sweet shop on the corner in Wallington.  I was born in ...Read more

A memory of Carshalton in 1930 by Elizabeth Smith

My grandfather, John Benjamin Slack, was the organist at St Godric's Church for many years before he died in 1924. The house visible on the photo at the end of the road is 71 North Road (the Water Board) - my great great grandfather ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1920

This is a photo of Aelwyd Amanw, Brynaman. Brynaman was the first place in Wales to have its own building for running a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Although a branch of Urdd Gobaith Cymru had been established in the village since ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman by Sarah Hopkin

My mother's father and mother Mr & Mrs Tom Dibble lived in the Cooperage, Stockland. Thomas's parents Thomas snr and Jane (nee) Palmer had children Sam, George from the Old Oak pub on the Cornhill, Mary + Mrs ...Read more

A memory of Woolavington in 1930 by Audrey Spearing

This was a weekend to remember! The Clitheroe Morris Men invited several other dance "sides" to join them for a weekend of dancing, music and - of course - beer drinking! By a lucky chance I was ...Read more

A memory of Clitheroe in 1980 by John Howard Norfolk