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I was raised in Mountsorrel in the Soar valley near Leicester. It was a Norman village that lay alongside the river Soar under Castle Hill. The hill got its name from the mote and bailey type 12c castle built by the Beaumonts – ...Read more

A memory of Mountsorrel by Janet Brookes

I attended Andover Grammar School from 1952 until 1956 and must admit that the swimming pool was my favorite part of the school. I have fond memories of the friends I made there, a lot of whom I am still in touch ...Read more

A memory of Andover by Jane Tarrant

We spent all our warm summer holidays at Westgate. We lived in South London. My Grandmother lived in Quex Road and we had a caravan on St Crispens caravan site. I loved getting fish heads from the fish monger to go ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea by grahamleeper1

The Mystery Bridge across the Mill Brook in Baguley. I was born in September 1946 and lived in Overdale Road Benchill before moving to Fouracers Road in Baguley about 1951. The Lanes, Farms ...Read more

A memory of Wythenshawe by christopher.bowden

W e kids called it 'The Double Mountains' I lived there during the war and in winter we sledged down it dangerously and in summer in cardboard boxes which lasted about two goes. One of the boys broke his arm and lost ...Read more

A memory of Atherstone by cathidaw

From the late 60's to early 70's I worked as an assistant boatman at St Nicholas park Boathouse. My duties included hiring motor boat and rowing skiffs to the public in the summer......in the winter months ...Read more

A memory of Warwick by jpsutton1

We moved here in 1978/9 when I was 4 to 8 - St John’s Crescent, and was heartbroken when my parents split 5 years later and we had to move with my mother back to Knaresborough. Lots of lovely memories. The ...Read more

A memory of Bishop Monkton by Joanna Bentley

My name is Peter Seager-Thomas. The shop on the corner (LHS) was Shewells the Chemist. Mr Shewell and my father had studied together and whilst our future home was being built, in Upper Brighton Road, Mr Shewell put the ...Read more

A memory of Surbiton by Peter Seager Thomas

Does anybody remember Tam Ritchie and his band of merry men ? They were the council workers based at Dunivard Place always good for a laugh ! Tam lived in an old caravan which I think Marco Galli has rotting away in his yard at ...Read more

A memory of Garelochhead by Ian Gowans

I was born in 1961 in Thorpe Combe hospital in Walthamstow and brought up by my parents in Forest Edge Buckhurst Hill. I consider myself very privileged to have lived there for the first 26 years of my life and have ...Read more

A memory of Buckhurst Hill by Andrew Evans