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First thing that came into my head when I saw this - Mrs. Butterfield - the Headmistress. I went to this school from 1951 to 1956. Mrs. Butterfield put me in for the 11 plus exam a year early and I passed and moved on to Helsby ...Read more

A memory of Moore in 1961 by Susan Simm

Camberley, where it all began. Where I lived half of my life so far. In your head you never leave the place you were born and raised. On a wet un-comforting day I found myself revisiting the town of my past. I was cast into ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1988 by André Goddard

I seem to have opened up vast memory stores here! It's good to know so many people who were around at the time I was at Berwick Road are still around today. Mind you, fifty-ish isn't old these days never mind what teenagers ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton by Stephen Owen

St. George's Presbyterian Church stands in the forefront of this photograph between what was the Co-operative shop and Tommy Jones the fishmongers shop.   How long the Presbyterian Church has stood on this site ...Read more

A memory of Little Sutton in 1972 by Kathleen Green

I have a copy of the Meeting Street photo as the girl standing in the road (with the black sleeve) is my Grandmother SARAH POWE (nee Lesley). The family house was at 29 Meeting Street just out of view. Grandmother also ran the BELL ...Read more

A memory of Appledore by Michael Ewings

In 1950 I was born on a cold winter's night to my mother Rosemary Jesse, at 'The Black Houses', Kelvedon Road, Wickham Bishops, built by architect, designer and socio-economic theorist Arthur Heygate Macmurdo. ...Read more

A memory of Wickham Bishops by Marilyn Jesse

I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. ...Read more

A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by ian.blundell

I moved to Old Langho in I think in 1954, I was an orphan I went to live with Mr and Mrs Pye. We lived at number 42 Larkhill, Mr and Mrs Pye where nurses at Brockhall hospital. There is a bit of a field between the ...Read more

A memory of Old Langho by Terence Pye

My dad was from Bridgend and my mother was from Llanharran. In 1961 soon after they’d got together, I was conceived, they left the valley's and moved in with my Nan, Maureen Payne / Pobihem, and Step Grampy, Polish ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1964 by Lynette Carter

I was born in Farnborough hospital in June 1956. My mother is Austrailian and my father grew up in and around Bridgwater in Somerset. From the period of 1956 -1960 we lived in the top flat at 12 Manor Road (now sadly gone), the ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup in 1956 by Julian Bishop