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We used to visit my grandparents on Sundays. Quite often during the Spring we would drive through the flooded levels and see boats on the water.  I remember wanting desperately to go for a ride in one!  It didn't ...Read more

A memory of North Curry in 1946 by Anne Perry

Hallo , my name is Cliff Bowley. My family moved to Stanmore in 1950 to a very large house called "Belmont Lodge " on the corner of Denis Lane and London Road junction. Does anybody remember it? It was knocked down for development, ...Read more

A memory of Stanmore by cliffbowley

My mum told me she came to Peartree Farm Askham Bryan. She was an Ellwood from Batley. she described a hanging ham in the kitchen, her discovery of her allergy to mushrooms and playing in the fields here about. I have no ...Read more

A memory of Askham Bryan by Diane Gollop

My late husband's family multi-generational of Clapham and during research discovered the death of Benjamin Blackaby in 1857 at his address: Peartree Cottage, White Square, Clapham, London. My late mother-in-law, his ...Read more

A memory of Clapham by V Tranfield

Woolston seems to have played quite a big part in the history of our family, so it's appropriate I guess that as an adult I have ended up living here with my Husband!! It started as far back as my great great great ...Read more

A memory of Woolston by Tracy Thurman

After living in Richmond I bought and renovated Pear Tree House (on the right of this 1913 picture) in 1972.  The previous occupants had died and when I found the house it was covered in ivy and I understand at one time Funeral ...Read more

A memory of Skeeby in 1972 by Terry King

I was born in Burgess Hill in 1955 and lived at 18 Peartree Close. There was a rough track behind the house with rear access to garages, and we spent loads of time playing up and down this track and in the woods beyond. I ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill in 1955 by Paul Smith

The stream in front of the war memorial ran down to the Browney river a few hundred yards below the Dean, where half of the Witton school kids learned to swim in deep pools created by dams made by Harry Bell and Davy ...Read more

A memory of Witton Gilbert in 1954 by David Leckenby

I lived with my grandma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bignell at No 10 Ten Cottages from 1943 to around 1948. The houses were Estate owned (and still are) and my grandad Robert Bignell worked at the manor house first as a shepherd and ...Read more

A memory of Wormleighton in 1946 by Geoff Taylor

The main memory that I have is growing up in a small village with lots of friends, the pear tree wall will last in my memory for ever, the meeting place for all, playing football on the green, fathers aginst the children, everyone was ...Read more

A memory of Haskayne in 1962 by Richard Melling