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I was born at the Bearstead Memorial Hospital in 1946 and lived on Hurstfield Road for my first 5 years, then moved to Weston Avenue. That house backed on to Hurst Park racecourse and I used to love to look over the fence to ...Read more

A memory of West Molesey in 1950 by Alison Collin

I returned 2 years ago and found an old recluse who remembered the folks, but the village is still recognisable. Every Good Friday it was a ritual to leave Noss Mayo in Devon early in the morning down to a little ...Read more

A memory of St Tudy in 1930 by John Hockaday

I moved to Stubbington as a 6 year old to the Red Lion Estate. My father like so many  on that estate was in the Royal Navy based at Portsmouth. I remember Foster's school and especially the daffodils by the ...Read more

A memory of Stubbington by Lorraine Emery

My great-grandad came from Tankersley, Lowder Lee Backhouse, born 1856, he was model maker (E & M). I don't know what sort of models he made. He was married to a Mary Coperly who came from Wortly, Yorks.

A memory of Tankersley by Margaret Burdett

My sister and I attended Carlingcott Methodist Church and we were both in Cora Brock's class. Cora lived opposite the church. Mr Wines was the Sunday School Superintendant. At Easter the church was packed with people ...Read more

A memory of Carlingcott in 1953 by Angela Holmes

I was born at 4 Chapel Yard, Dronfield on 13th September 1941. We lived with my grandma, Mrs Watson, as my dad Jack Keeble was away in Burma fighting the Japanese. It was only a small house as it was ...Read more

A memory of Dronfield in 1941 by Ann Lee

Up past the lightning tree, its trunk split in half where it was struck. Round Conjoin Lane and back home to Mum. Big brother and sister, our Vee and our George, fair-haired and handsome, this brother of ...Read more

A memory of Tideswell in 1940 by Elsie Hollis

I am amazed that so few memories of Land's End have been recorded so I wish to add my brief knowledge. My cousin Peter was born in Hampshire in the 1920s. His mother was my father's sister Kathleen Goodey, later Headland, and born a ...Read more

A memory of Land's End in 1950 by John Scott

My only memory of Rostherne lives through my ancestors memories of their life their. My gr gr gr gr grandfather George Sheldon Robinson and his wife Mary (White) robinson christened several of ...Read more

A memory of Rostherne by Linda Lee

I was born in 1928 at 20, Cotsford Crescent, the third son of a miner William Holmes. All his brothers were miners and myself and my brothers worked underground. I remember Lumleys shop as it was not far away and Mr. Lumley refused to ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1930 by Albert Holmes