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No memories of Battersea but seeking ancesters HORNBY that lived at 11Ponton Terrace 1901 and owned a Artist Materials shop in the district. The Father Thomas worked on the railway an Engine Driver.

A memory of Battersea by Leonard Osmond

I have ancesters in Lapworth from about early 1800s living at Windmill Farm, Canal House and Tapster Brook House where they Farmed. Family names where Woodward and Bellamy. Any Bellamys still in the area ? June Tomes.

A memory of Lapworth in 1880 by June Tomes

I spent weeks in an isolation ward, my parents only being able to speak through a glass window. My many toys i accumulated after many weeks had to be left, until the morning I was due to leave a wonderful nurse called Tracy led me along ...Read more

A memory of Nork by Michael Mackey

I lived at number 14 from 1952 until about 1961. I used to walk to the post office, run by a Mr Green, to get my Mum's cigarettes and sometimes in the summer an homemade ice lolly, a square of lemon ice on a stick. As a brownie ...Read more

A memory of Isle of Grain

I lived in 26 Caledonia Street, from 1944 till 1953. I went to the National School in George Street. To get to school we had to pass Sadie Bells hens that she kept in her back yard but let them out in the back lane. They ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1950 by Norma Price

I drove through Consett in 2007 as my relatives had lived at 22 Medomsley Road at least in 1891 when Sarah Ann Wholah Hutchinson died. One side of the street is old but the other has changed a ...Read more

A memory of Consett by Richard Greene

I'm now 73 years of age, and went every year for my holidays - From I was about 6 till I got married at 21. I went to the Burrance Farm to my Uncle Jake and Martha Carruthers. My cousins were Maisie and Nan Dirom, two ...Read more

A memory of Templand in 1948 by William Herbert

There were quite a number of bombs dropped in and around Leigh during WW2. This was probably due to hostile aircraft jettison bombs after leaving London or Croydon area. The largest was in the orchard just past Leigh ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1940 by Roy Livermore

My parents were also married here in 1939. I was the their only child. I loved the 'village' as we called it. It was great cycling down the High Street on the very wide pavements and everyone acknowledging you with a ...Read more

A memory of New Malden in 1930 by Sheila Edwards Nee Roffey

I lived in Norbury Court Rd. My first school was Mrs. Nicholson's school, called St. Winifreds. I was there at the age of 4, and later went on to Coloma in Croydon for the rest of my school life. I remember our school ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1948 by Pat Courtney