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Grandad Humphreys, he was a carpenter making and restoring the Lockgates on the Montgomery Canal. Born in Welshpool 1875-1965. I remember the little trains running across Church Street as a boy of 8 ...Read more

A memory of Welshpool in 1954 by Keith Bedford

My mother and her mother were born in my great-grandparents' cottage at Hanworth Common. Richard and Blanche Craske they were. Well dear old Richard was really my step great grandad. The true one was ...Read more

A memory of Aldborough in 1944 by Richard Whitten

Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to start looking on the internet and came across this site and for what it’s worth decided to record my memories. I was born ...Read more

A memory of Fenny Stratford by Dawn Cousins

My father was born in 1922 at Coleford Farm Cottage, Mytchett, Frimlet, to his unmarried mother Hilda May Hockley. She married my father's dad a month after my dad's birth. My father's name was Henru Reuben Fisher. My dad's father ...Read more

A memory of Mytchett in 1920 by Marilyn Heath

My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved ...Read more

A memory of Veryan in 1890 by Donald Johns

I would love to here from anyone who may know of the Crump Family from Lucton in the 1900s. My father was George Crump who was born there. My Grandfather was Richard George Crump also born in ...Read more

A memory of Sarnesfield in 1910 by Lee Corpe

I was born on 29th November 1928, and lived in Southsea in 1939, and during August my parents, little sister, and I went for a short holiday by coach to stay with an Aunt and ...Read more

A memory of Overton in 1940

My father worked for BP Llandarcy from the 1960s. I was born in 1971 and some of my earliest memories are the smell of my dad coming home from Llandarcy. He worked on a machine called the catreformer. He rescued my first cat Sooty from ...Read more

A memory of Llandarcy in 1974

I visited Uley last year because I am finding out about my family history and I found out that my Gt Gt Grandmother was born in Uley in the year 1833 so it is a long time ago. Her name was Hannah Heath and she ...Read more

A memory of Uley in 1860 by Mollie Elliott

I was born in Johnshaven at 9 Mid Street, my grandmother's house. She was Mary Wyllie, nee Laing, and my grandfather was Jimmy Wyllie. My mother's maiden name was Mary-Ann Wyllie. We moved to Fife when I was young, but I remember ...Read more

A memory of Johnshaven by Joan Whyte