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I was four when my family moved from London to Manage the Rose and Crown in 1940. The Rose and Crown was then about four hundred and fifty years old. After six months there was a devastating fire which destroyed the whole ...Read more

A memory of Ashbury in 1940 by First Name Last Name

My ancestral relatives are listed in the 1881 Census as the proprietors of "The High Street George Inn" in Henfield. Walter W Welling (aged 50) and his wife Sarah Ann Welling (nee Smoker and ...Read more

A memory of Henfield in 1880 by Rebecca Day

My family and I stayed in a caravan at Thorney bay beach camp, oh my god what fun. There was nothing there so you made your own fun. Walking along the sea wall to the funfair every night, and eating saveloy and chips ...Read more

A memory of Canvey Island by Marion Phillips

I remember going to the Wimpy bar and having wimpy and chips and strawberry milkshake with my friend Vera.

A memory of Tooting in 1960 by Maureen Knights

I lived at Washford from 1942 to 1958. The house I lived in was Halscombe and I went to school in Minehead and was in the sea scouts at Watchet. If anyone can remember me from that time, please get in touch.  we  went  to  school  on  the  train in  the  good  old  days Yours, Keith Duckworth

A memory of Washford in 1942 by Keith Duckworth

For many years morris sides danced in the road in front of the pub garden of the Red Lion. This has been a popular venue to celebrate May Day morning at dawn. Whitethorn Morris and their ...Read more

A memory of Coleshill in 2004 by John Howard Norfolk

William was born in 1812 in England and, at the time od his marriage, was a parishioner of Great Conard, Suffolk. He married Frances Honer Witts on the 26th November 1834 in St Peter's in the Parish of ...Read more

A memory of Sudbury by Phyllis Willis

A 20 year old new mum and a brand new mobile home at Goffs Oak House in the heart of the village! Surrounded by huge trees, lawns and winding paths, the bassinette pram - what else after all? - was eased 2 feet down through a ...Read more

A memory of Goff's Oak in 1965 by Sandra Dudley

NO 4 THE GAP My memory of Marcham started in 1946-7. My grandmother, Lydia Lawrence, used to live at no 4 The Gap. She was born in Long Wittemham, then she ...Read more

A memory of Marcham in 1946 by Graham Davis

There was Mr Jim Goynes, Mr Nicholson and his wife, Mr Hamer, Mr Oxley (the boys knew him as "Flump" although I never knew why). There was Mollie Manion (known as Matron), Mrs Nicholson was her assistant and ...Read more

A memory of Thelwall in 1953