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We lived from the late forties until 1957 in the Council houses at Crookhayes, The fields behind our houses were numerous and we used to enjoy watching the cows gadding about. The hedges surrounding the fields were ...Read more

A memory of Shaftesbury by euphemias

My family had wonderful holidays at my aunts house called 'silba' in Golden Acre near the beach. My two brothers, sister and Mum and Dad spent such happy holidays here. We spent most of our days on ...Read more

A memory of Angmering

I lived in Gillingham and before the war we usually went to Sheerness for a weeks holiday always staying at the same Guest House. The Guest House was about a mile from the sea front and we had to be out in the morning by 9.30 ...Read more

A memory of Sheerness by hachesney

l was born in the High st Sedgley a small house next to the old The Old Crown pub, in 1936, my father Samuel Britton was born in Sedgley (as was his mother and father and others going back to the start of the records of Sedgley ...Read more

A memory of Sedgley by dy31pg

With three Christian names, William Henry John, you'd wonder why my dad chose to be called Jack. A surveyor for the county, he died in 1943; but not before building Mum and myself a bungalow at 53 Herbert Road. ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch by Peter Williams

My aunt sent me a photo of Camper House on Camper Road. Since then I have been researching our ancestry.

A memory of Southchurch by hazeq8

This garden belonged to the artist Oscar Prentice,who taught me to paint as a small child ,his house and studio can't be seen in this photo ,the gnomes all held fishing rods ,no vandalism in those days .

A memory of Langstone by vappleton

My name is Rob Beilby and I grew up in Durham City from 1937 until 1966. I and my brothers Bryan and Jimmy lived in a pub called the "Angel Inn" at the top of Crossgate from 1937 until 1945 with ...Read more

A memory of Langley Park by Rob Beilby

Hi I am the new owner of 103 acre lane, cheadle hulme it used to be part of bramhall many years ago. I am looking into finding out about the previous owners/history of the house for my own ...Read more

A memory of Bramhall by adriansnelius

My family came back from Australia in 1952. We were housed in the old R.A.F camp in Forest Rd. In the fine weather we walked across the fields that ran at the back of the camp to Failop School, Fencepiece Rd. After a year we moved to ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside by howes