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After nine months diligent effort I have completed my Memoir "Fortunë Favours the Bold" Ronald George Westwood 1932 - 2011. It contains a good deal of information about the history of Cedeslai / Chaddesley Corbett and the ...Read more

A memory of Chaddesley Corbett by Ronald Westwood

I was born on 24 September 1937 when my parents were living at No 54 Medway Drive, Perivale, Greenford. I thought I was born in a maternity hospital ( possibly Perivale Maternity Hospital, but no records now exist for this ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1940 by Alan Grose

I was born in Medomsley in 1957 in the big house top of Fines Rd, Fines House. I lived in Medomsley till 1973. I've got some great memories of the village when it was a small village, Mrs Finlay's shop, the old school, St Mary ...Read more

A memory of Medomsley by Wendy Halfpenny

I was born January 1945 and from the age of three I often went to stay with great-aunt Lizzie in Maybury Street, Tooting (possibly house number 23.) My great-aunt, was Mrs Reader, a widow, who lived downstairs in the house, ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1947

I was born in a private nursing home near Walpole Park in 1939. It was at the junction of Somerset Road and Culmingdon Road. I lived in Culmington Road until I married in 1961 when I moved to Hillingdon. I went to Harvington School ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by hilary.sykes

My father, Keith Ramsay, worked at May & Baker all his working life as a Pharmaceutical Engineer and I remember, as a young child, my dad talking about the making of the children's cough mixture Tixylix and also Anthisan. Dad used to ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham by Susan Lessis

The brother of my 5xgt grandfather William Maxwell, was Thomas Maxwell, born in Harting in 1754. Thomas and Elizabeth's son Henry Maxwell, born 1807 in Harting, was by the census of 1841 living in Selborne with his wife Jane ...Read more

A memory of Selborne by Caroline Hutchings

I was born in Motherwell and moved to Inzievar Terrace in 1940 Dad was away in the navy so mum and I lived with my Grandparents Francis and Margaret McKendrick I remember the steps I used to go up with my Aunt Margaret to get to ...Read more

A memory of Carmyle by Matthew Wilson

I am researching the family, Francis. James Francis was born in 1852 in Monmouth and married Selina Owens, in 1872. They had a son Matthew Henry and a daughter Sarah Jane. Matthew married Ellen and they had 4 children; ...Read more

A memory of Trealaw in 1870 by Ken Evans

I remember S C Cummins quite well, their factory was close to the corner of (I believe) William Street. My grandparents lived at 55 Martin Street for many years and my aunty lived on Earle Street. My uncle lived on William Street and ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1970 by Raymond Kennedy