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I went to this folk festival for the first time this year and got some memories that I will never forget!  Exciting music and dance memories at the entertainment venues around Chepstow plus a never to ...Read more

A memory of Chepstow in 2008 by John Howard Norfolk

I lived near here, we are looking the other way to the other pic, Dorothy Mutton's Post Office is in the distance. On the right is the elm hedge and bank which bordered the (dry) gravel pit where we played. It was wonderful! A dump ...Read more

A memory of Cippenham in 1950 by Dave Hill

I was a at school as a boarder at Churcher's College from 1945 to 1951. The immediate post war years in England were a time of great hardship and rationing. I remember vividly the bad winter of 1947, when Heath ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield in 1945 by Howard Johnson

I distinctly remember taking part in one particular exercise on Petersfield Heath at the age of 15. We were divided into two detachments, one defending a position in a clump of trees on the high ground, and the other ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield by adrian

Church House Farm was a large white building nestled neath the shadows of the great Yew trees that bordered the graveyard of All Saints Church, Shelsley Beauchamp, the other side of the River Teme from Shelsley Walsh. The ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh by Antony Cook

The first memory I have of Godington (circa 1970) is walking down to Grange Farm which was then owned by Ann and Norman Tew, and getting fresh milk. This lovely family were good friends to my then divorced Mum . Brother Mark and I ...Read more

A memory of Godington by Jane Risbey

My father grew up in Dinnington. He lived on The Crescent with his mum, dad and 2 older sisters. Once married, he settled in Manchester, where my 2 sisters, my brother and myself were born. Having no family car, visits to my ...Read more

A memory of Dinnington by Maureen Oates

Searching for a Nantymoel soldier of the 8th Btn Sherwood Foresters who fought the Germans in Norway in April 1940 as part of the ill-fated Norwegian campaign of the "Sickleforce" /148th Infantry Brigade ...Read more

A memory of Penygraig by S N Johansen

Late in 1945 my parents moved to 25 Busk Crescent, in Cove. The house was on top of a hill and overlooked the Farnborough airfield. From the front bedroom you could see aircraft landing on the runway. The house was one of a string of ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by Alan Hickman

I remember the Sugar Bowl very well as I used to swim there. I was a boarder at Red House School further down the Brighton Road, does anyone remember that? Best days of my life (another story), Walton on the Hill for ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath in 1960 by Alan Maxwell