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I have many memories of living in Spencers Wood. I lived on the main road, house name Tidewell. My grandfather used to live in Ivanhoe further down the ...Read more

A memory of Spencers Wood in 1949 by Mary Parish

I too remember playing by the River Mole; great excitement when we found what we thought was a dead scorpion on the riverbank. When they we building the Three Bridges estate, they had a narrow gauge railway for moving ...Read more

A memory of Crawley by David Randall

During those years, my father was in the US Air Force stationed at Wethersfield. We lived in Coggeshall on East Street. With the advent of Google Earth I can still walk down familiar streets in Coggeshall from Texas. I see some ...Read more

A memory of Coggeshall by Carroll Wayne Stewart

I lived in a bungalow in Broadbridge Lane (Redehall End) from my birth in 1957 to 1983. I always thought it was a great place to live, with a huge garden to play in, plus the surrounding woods and fields. ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield by Janet Tafe

I lived in Gainers Terrace in the 60's with me ma, da, and brother Tom. I loved seeing the ships being built from my bedroom window, late at night the room would be all lit up with the light from the welders! My mother's cousin ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend in 1860

In the late 60's, I was a WRAC PTI and was posted to Aldershot. During the summer I had been out with others on a practical map reading course and we finished early, so the guys suggested we go to the lido for the ...Read more

A memory of Aldershot

I lived in Oulton until I was 11. We then emigrated to South Australia but I have great memories of England and long to return, which I'm hoping to do in the next couple of years. We lived in St Johns St and I remember a rag and ...Read more

A memory of Oulton in 1949 by Jeanette Wilde

I also went to St Brides in the early 1950's and in fact remember Patricia Quarman and Ann Bradford. Who could ever forget Aunty T and Miss Watson. I particularly remember coming back from half term and hiding sweets in the floor ...Read more

A memory of Chagford in 1952 by Jennifer Peace/Mc Adams

I remember my mother telling me that her brother had a similar experience to this around the 1920's (approx). He was riding his bicycle through the churchyard and saw, what looked like someone clinging to the wall in the ...Read more

A memory of Beccles in 1955 by Jenny Leighton

I lived in the Swan Inn at Mitcham from 1960 through to 1966 in rooms at the back of the pub. My parents were 'mine hosts' during this time. It was patronised by many 'regulars' one of which was the local rag and bone man called Rosco and ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham by Jan May