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My mum use to have the tea rooms when I was a child called The Copper Kettle. I think it was around the late 60's early 70's, it had the tea rooms at one end and a transport cafe at the other, and we lived above it. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1970 by Shani Clarke

The picture of the Cornmarket in High Wycombe pictures my father-in-law, Guilford Emery (now deceased), his daughter Jen (now deceased), and one of his sons, my brother-in-law David Emery. We discovered the picture ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1954 by Mrs Maureen Emery

The cottage you are on about is on the right going out of Lockeridge, going to Alton Barnes.

A memory of West Overton in 2010

The cottage nearest to the telegraph pole was my grandmother's.  My uncles Ted and Bob lived there with her until they moved to Woodbine Farm,  Langtoft.  After they left, gran moved in with my family at the other end of the ...Read more

A memory of Gristhorpe in 1950 by Polly Reynolds

I lived in the Court in Diss as a 3 and 4 year old girl. My father was in the US Airforce so we moved all over the world. The Court has special memories for us. My sister Sharon was born in the house. I remember beautiful gardens, ...Read more

A memory of Diss in 1954 by Adrienne Love Workman

my grandparents owned the creamery shop (Margaret and Fred Hoare) just down from the water front. We used to go in summer to stay in the attic rooms above the shop. It is now a sewing machine shop but the photo's give me very ...Read more

A memory of Whitstable

My great-grandmother's family were farmers in Worth, and nearby Copthorne and Charlwood in the mid-nineteenth century. Great-grandma was Eliza Creasey and she married great-grandad George Allen in the chapel ...Read more

A memory of Worth in 1860 by John Howard Norfolk

I, my sisters and my cousins often spent our summer holidays in the 50's with my Grandmother (Ivy Eddy nee Bryant) in her cottage by the culvert as shown in the photo of the creek. The boat wreck in the picture was a sailing barge owned by ...Read more

A memory of Millbrook by Roy Mellick

I too remember the Cricks. The outside toilet was a plank of wood with a hole in it. The post office was the second to end thatched cottage, which is opposite Stoneham Lane. At the top of Chestnut Avenue, past the BMW garage ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh by John Scott

On the right side of the road up from Passfield Avenue past the turnoff to Stoneham and the one hand clock where the smithy used to be on the corner then on to the Cricketers Arms on the right halfway up the hill. I have ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1978 by John Scott