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This is a very significant picture to me although taken a good many years after we left High Street for Mill Lane. My sister, Hilda and I were both born in one of the houses just beyond the white building, in our time that ...Read more

A memory of Donington in 1930 by Winnie Nowaknee White

My dad was stationed here in the early 60's with the US Navy.  Although I was only 5 years old at the time the memories are still so vivid in my mind. So many thoughts and pictures are racing through my mind as I write this ...Read more

A memory of Innellan in 1963 by Theresa Wilson

I own part of the building which is the second one on the left of the photo. Many years ago there was another building on the end, on the corner of Market St and Well Lane. Our building is now the Fat Frog Cafe and lots of ...Read more

A memory of Liskeard by Lynda Gale

I lived in Rose Cottage from mid 1965 to July 1966 when we were posted to Germany. At the time it was divided into two cottages. Myself, my husband and my 6mths old son lived in no2 which was the cottage on the left side looking front ...Read more

A memory of Over Wallop in 1965 by Mary Rowlands

During the 2nd WW, my dad signed up with the Belgian section of the Royal Navy. On leave, he met up with my mum and married her in Christchurch in 1944. I came along in 1945. After the war my dad returned to Belgium, ...Read more

A memory of North Finchley in 1953 by Christine Moeyaert

I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago. As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1930 by Alan Lloyd

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

As a child I swam in the sea next to the Sandwell Gate and the ruins of The Freemasons Arms which was an old pub that was on the Fish Sands. I remember sunny days, swimming and picnics with ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool in 1969 by Ruth Savage

My brother and were put in the Orphanage, I think, in 1943-4, despite the fact that both parents were alive. We remained there until, I think,1946. I am unclear as to the exact dates as I am now 67 years of ...Read more

A memory of Cheeseburn Grange in 1944 by Cyril John Wright

Jennifer and I started our married life in South Wales in a little village called Caio, at that time all Welsh speaking. You may have gathered from my writings I was recalled back into the army for the campaign that was called The Suez ...Read more

A memory of Caio in 1956 by George Larbey