Name: Helen Peckham Story / suggestion: My Husband "Nick" suffered a Stroke in October 2021. He was only 53 years young and it happened at 4am in...
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Roundabout Jack or Horace Albert Duke
Suggestion from Laura Murphy at the WayfinderWoman Your Stories In Song event at The Grove theatre in Eastbourne in November 2024. When Laura...
Not All In The Mind
We met Barbara at one of our Your Stories In Song events at Hampden Park Library. She told us this amazing story of how she finally got to the...
Mary Fildes
At Battle library we met a descendant of Mary Fildes who told us about her. Mary was president of the Manchester Female Reform Society in 1819, and...
Boy from the Estate
A boy from the council estate got to the top of the corporate tree. My gosh it wasn't for me! Suggestion by Mark Austin at the Your Stories In Song...
Accident Annie
Accident Annie She spilt her drink down her skirt And found it was because she was a flirt Never looking at what she should It was a case of what...
Trug
The story of the Sussex Trug, started by Thomas Smith in Herstmonceux and still made in Herstmonceux today. Suggested by a member of the audience at...
Ron Moore
Ronald Joseph Moore – our Uncle Ron – who died aged 90 in 2020, was a carpenter by trade, spending his working life at Hellingly Hospital. He had...
Rushlake Green Art Show and Flower Show – 1950 to 2024 One Family’s Involvement
Sent in by Shirley Austin Ivon Austin moved to Hunton’s Farm in 1945 after the war and married Margaret Curtis in 1950. Margaret was an accomplished...
Dick Turpin in Enfield
Written in our Audience Book, Colindale Barnet Folk Club, July 2024. “The Rose and Crown in Enfield, Clay Hill…Dick Turpin was said to have visited...