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I hope this memory of Normacot is the first of many to be placed by me and then hopefully by others. I was born in 1944 in Lower Spring Road, (opposite Garbetts Toffee Factory), one of a family of 5 ...Read more

A memory of Normacot by Jeff Bromley

My dad Jimmy Brown was born in Greengairs in 1925, he lived with his family in Hill view. He's still going strong and turns 97 next birthday. Is there anyone who knows him as he's the last man standing in his family.

A memory of Greengairs

Hi, I am just wondering if anyone, anyone at all, remembers a lady called Joan or Lucy Clarke, born about 1921? Her mother was called Elsie May Clarke (as far as I know), I don't know Joan's father's full name... I know Joan was ...Read more

A memory of Chinley in 1930 by Christine Clarke

John Allen Venner was a Hurst Green Veterinary Surgeon and his wife Emily Baxter raised 10 children at Jacobs Well Farm. The children were John, Emily, George, Jane, Annie, Maud, May, Grace, Harry and ...Read more

A memory of Hurst Green in 1900 by Gail Venner

I know you. You are the little boy who came skipping out of your house to tell us all that 'We had won the War'. I was born at No. 8 - all the children played together in that cul-de -sac. John Heard's sister was my best ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1940

Hi, my name is Jean. I have been doing my family history for a while now, but cannot find anything at all about my grandfather John Francis Donald. All I know is that he lived on the green and before that in the Coulton by the ...Read more

A memory of Gainford in 1920 by Jean Thornley

I was born in the front bedroom of 3 lands bury Crescent in 1952. Loved the estate, our inter road football matches and playing on the old puff and billy railway track. I used to go fishing and swimming in the pontoon which ...Read more

A memory of Dartford by johngriffiths19

My grandmother Selina Lucy Tank Hotten fell pregnant at the age of 18 years. Her father, Charles Henry Hotten was a gardener and felt he would lose his job if anyone found out about this. Selina was sent to a workhouse to have ...Read more

A memory of Newton Abbot in 1890 by Susan Trickett

Joseph Buckley my great great grandfather, was a photographer, known as Owd Ab from the Ben Brierley character. ​In Volume 1 of Ben Brierley's “Lancashire Stories”, is another short tale “A "Strike" Adventure or The ...Read more

A memory of Daisy Nook by bigcityfan

My Great Grandmother had two brothers who lived in Newington or Walworth, South London. This would be the area between Camberwell and Kennington to the South and The Elephant ...Read more

A memory of London by Gemma Gemma