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The Church at Kilinian during the 18th and 19th century, if not earlier, was a Celtic Presbyterian Church where my ancestors, the Patterson and McClean ...Read more

A memory of Kilninian by Ian Patterson

I moved to Hundleton in the 1950s and spent all my childhood in and around, living at Belmont then Quiot's Hill before living for a while in Gilead, then back to River View. As the years passed my love for Freshwater West grew ...Read more

A memory of Hundleton in 1957 by Charles Stanley

In May 1971 my mother (Jeanne Grenville) brother Chris and I rented 'Ruffeys' at Coldharbour. We had just arrived from Melbourne, Australia and we were to make our home in the UK. Chris and I were so homesick for ...Read more

A memory of Coldharbour in 1971 by Jillian Holst

When I was five years old , Mum Dad and me moved to Bubwith in to a house by the Derwent called Riversleigh. My memories are many and varied from the five years I lived there. The house opposite ...Read more

A memory of Bubwith in 1950 by Judith St John

Sheila King was my best friend. I lived in 43 Muspratt Road, Sheila in no 16. I went to St Thomas's infants. Beach Road Litherland Juniors then Waterloo Secondary Modern. Was Married in St, Thomas's. There our paths were separated. ...Read more

A memory of Seaforth in 1953 by Beryl Doherty

My Great Grandparents were Fred & Dorcas Beeching, and both died in 1915, they lived in Dunks Green, and two of their sons Sydney and William were killed in the Great War, their names appear on the memorial stone in Plaxtol i think. Does anyone have memories of Dunks Green from any years. Brian

A memory of Dunk's Green in 1910 by Brian Beeching

I'm from the USA but my mom is from Yorkshire and we spend many happy summers in Filey with my grandparents (every is living here in Southern California now). They had a home near the beach and we would spend the weekends in ...Read more

A memory of Hunmanby in 1972 by Michele Coombe

Born on the 4th January 1939 in 14 Council Cottages, son of Jack and Francis Cole and cared for by my Gran and Granddad who lived opposite, I had super baby years, although Dad was away fighting. I can vaguely ...Read more

A memory of Four Elms by John Cole

Sept 1971, and Ventnor became the place of our honeymoon. We had a fabulous week, the weather was good, a lovely hotel just up the hill from the beach. At the end of it, we were very brave and returned to the mainland by hovercraft ...Read more

A memory of Ventnor in 1971 by Susan Moore

My lifetime in Kirn ran from birth in 1948 until I left the area in 1968 to become a policeman in Newcastle upon Tyne. My family lived in Argyll Terrace (No. 8). I worked with George Fraser the grocer for at least seven years ...Read more

A memory of Kirn in 1952 by Campbell Findlay