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I can remember when Big Wesley was demolished to make way for the new "British Homestores", seems that things are turning full circle. It must have been in the late 1950`s when my pals and I used to play on the ...Read more

A memory of Middlesbrough by ian.cromack296

My mother was born in the cottage in 1926. Her father was the head gardener at Clatford Mills. I believe they moved to Clatford Lodge, in the ground,s about 1928. In 2010 my husband and my daughter were lucky enough to ...Read more

A memory of Upper Clatford in 1920 by Sally Lowe

This was the year I was born, as everyone was in those days, in Tredegar. I came home with my mum and dad to our house in Commercial Buildings. Both my mum and dad were from the village where my paternal grandfather had once ...Read more

A memory of Oakdale in 1956 by Lynne Woodley

I have Lots of Fond memorys growing up on the farm on the left ( Which was past down to us from the Winslade Family),I grew up there from birth 1950 till 1974 with my 4 brothers and mum and dad,we learnt to ride bikes and had Great fun raceing up and down the lane,also was Married in the church.

A memory of Othery by Jenny Cox (Selway)

My brother Colin and I lived at 109 East park Marbury, we were originally in no 110 which was a long red hut as I remember it. The Cleary's lived next door who were from Liverpool and I remember Willie Cleary as being a bit of ...Read more

A memory of Marbury by dave.bowman

I was born in 1928 in the first house on the right on Sweetwater Lane. Still there, it was one of many "tied" houses occupied by those who worked for the Enton Hall estate of the Chichester family. They gave the Chichester Hall to the ...Read more

A memory of Witley by Michael Phillips

Very similar to Marjories memories. The things we looked forward too were the Church and Chapel trips to the seaside,and the week before the school broke up for Summer when the shows as we called them came in. ...Read more

A memory of High Etherley by Ronnie Leonard

I too have very fond memories of Heatherlea. I remember well the dinner gong and the daily walk to the swings where I seemed to spend hours. Every day seemed to be sunny, which of course it probably wasn't. The treat of ...Read more

A memory of Allendale Town by b_soulsby

when I was just 5 years old in 1951, I was whisked away to a convalescent home for infants in Dedisham Sussex, dressed up like Paddington bear or , a recent example of an evacuee . I was there for about a ...Read more

A memory of Dedisham by k.marchant222

My dad was in the Army and we travelled the world. We came back to the UK from Germany at the end of the 60's, I was about 12 or 13. We lived at the top of some steps that only had two houses, we could see right across the fields ...Read more

A memory of Blandford Camp by stewarts534