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I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves and my siblings and I went to the school in this picture. This is of St Paul's junior school and if my memory is correct it had four classrooms, and the headmaster's office was in the building ...Read more

A memory of Woodhouse Eaves in 1965 by Josephine Linger

I was born in Kings Road in 1964, and have fond memories of Cowplain. My parents still live there but I have moved to the other side of the world (New Zealand). The phone box in the picture was used to phone would be girlfriends, as the ...Read more

A memory of Cowplain by Robert King

I am the lady at the door with my husband Don Weston. The date is about 1959 because that is the year we had electricity in the village and started to sell ice cream. Hence the Walls sign. My parents Mr and Mrs Caesar Evans ...Read more

A memory of Bosherston by Claire Allen

Hi everyone. I lived in Holcombe Rogus during the war years. My Father Leeming Greaves and Kathleen Korner had leased the Prince Of Wales Hotel. My brother Joseph and I attended the local School, I was 9 years old ...Read more

A memory of Holcombe Rogus in 1942 by Jessie Sichter

So much has changed here, it was Newington farmland. I know it is good to get across to France but it has spoilt the countryside.

A memory of Folkestone in 1965 by Julia Deane

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

After living in Richmond I bought and renovated Pear Tree House (on the right of this 1913 picture) in 1972.  The previous occupants had died and when I found the house it was covered in ivy and I understand at one time Funeral ...Read more

A memory of Skeeby in 1972 by Terry King

From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to ...Read more

A memory of West End in 1986 by Vee Williams

The Postman is believed to be John Blenkinsop. Five of the entrances to ‘Barney’ have the word ‘gate’ (meaning ‘way’) in their street names.   Galgate is the northern way into ...Read more

A memory of Barnard Castle in 1890 by Dave Charlesworth

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