“The beauty of the hill sold it to me” I was in born in 1948 in Dublin, the child of two actors whose parents were also actors. My grandparents were travelling players – they’d go to a different town every week. I was brought up in a seaside town called Dalkey with my siblings. It… Continue reading Sinead Cusack
Nigel Adams
“It’s the best place in the country” I was born in Cheltenham in 1958. My father was a farm manager in the Cotswolds, but when I was five the farm was sold. We ended up at Shirburn Farm when I was seven as my father got a job as the farm manager. I went to… Continue reading Nigel Adams
Lionel Wilson
“The people are so friendly and helpful to an old man” I was born in 1928 in Barking, the second son of my parents. We moved to Upminster when I was about five and I lived there for twenty five years, until I was married. It was one and half miles away from Hornchurch RAF… Continue reading Lionel Wilson
Fergus Lapage
“I like Watlington, it suits me” I was born in 1949 in Stornoway, in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. My mother was a Macloud, she had to learn English at school. My grandmother could only speak Gaelic. My dad was a doctor and my mother was a nurse. They met in India… Continue reading Fergus Lapage
Lexi Cheesman
“This would be a lovely place to grow old” I was born in London in Hammersmith in 1963. My parents divorced early on, and my mother remarried, so I had two dads! Both were in the music business. My stepfather Mike Hurst was a bit of a celeb, he was one of the ‘Springfields’ with… Continue reading Lexi Cheesman
Steve Nicholson
“It’s always good to see all the friendly and familiar faces.” I was born in 1952, in a deprived part of Leicester, to a single mother. She was in and out of prison so my grandmother looked after me quite a lot. My mother eventually married and had five other children; my stepfather didn’t want… Continue reading Steve Nicholson
Hugh Thomson
“There is lots happening if I put my head out of the door” I was born in London in 1960, and moved to Oxfordshire with my parents and one brother and two sisters, to Little Stoke, which is near Wallingford, on the river. After school I went and studied English Literature at Cambridge and… Continue reading Hugh Thomson
