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My Great-Great-Grandad, Henry Howard, lived in the early 1800’s - a time of great rural depression - and so he left his Devon home to look for work in London with the result that several generations of my ...Read more

A memory of Barnes in 1870 by John Howard Norfolk

My father was a serving soldier, serving at the RAOC camp until 1948. We lived in the YMCA building in the camp itself and it had a large functions hall attached where one of our officers once entertained the children at Christmas ...Read more

A memory of Mossband Ho in 1947 by Eileen Buckley Knowles

At the far end of photo number H183005a - on the right - is a white wall. Mr and Mrs Barker lived in a one room plus a tiny kitchen downstairs, two tiny rooms up, from the 1930s until my great-grandmother died in the ...Read more

A memory of Heighington in 1944 by First Name Last Name

We moved to Prestatyn in 1948. I loved the Mobo horses that the little ones could ride at the Bastion Road beach. My little school was Pendre, up the hill Fforddlas I think. Also going to St Chad's School annual fair and sale. Always ...Read more

A memory of Prestatyn in 1950 by Mo Edwards

I came to work in Sulgrave in the 1980s. I worked for Major George Coombs who lives at Stonecourt on the Hedom Road. My first thoughts of the village were that it was very quiet and that the people were all ...Read more

A memory of Sulgrave in 1981 by Linda Fearis

Sometime around 1956, for about two years, two of us shared a cottage in Iford village (one of the first two as you came off the main road from Lewes). We worked for Mr Robinson milking his Guernsey herd and doing ...Read more

A memory of Iford in 1956 by Kay Mullin

Balloon Woods. Most people says it was a hell hole. Yes some parts of it was. But to a child it was good. There were more quite a few blocks. Some had four floors, these were called Tansley Walk, Bealey Walk, Hartington ...Read more

A memory of Wollaton in 1971 by Jean Smith

As a young lad, I enjoyed many happy holidays at Brook Farm Caravan Site in Nansen Road, Holland-on Sea, where my parents owned a caravan.  This site was very quiet and superbly unspoilt with nothing but a small shop ...Read more

A memory of Holland-on-Sea in 1965

I worked here in the 80's as a teen. Looking at this photo, the place hasn't changed a bit. It changed hands after Brad Collins passed away and is still a riding school today.

A memory of Mottingham in 1980 by Nicola Ryan

My maiden name was Quarman. I boarded at St Bride's School in the late 1940s and early 1950s.  The headmistress was Miss Thompson, assistant Miss Watson.  We wore a green unifrom.  I ued to enjoy ...Read more

A memory of Chagford in 1940 by Patricia Arnold