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I was born in the public house called Seven Stars Inn, Dinton. The date was the 5th November 1940. My godfather, then Doctor Ralph Gardiner, delivered me. He lived over the stile in the farm nearby. The pub was run by ...Read more

A memory of Dinton in 1940 by Dennis A Young

I was born in 1942 at the then Liston Nursing Home in Marlow. My first memories are of the Dog and Badger in Medmenham, where I lived for six years, with my mother, and my grandparents, John and Lillian Nye. The pub was ...Read more

A memory of Medmenham in 1947

The shop that was operated by my grandmother at New Mill Bridge was home to me and my family during the Second World War. It was a haven where the madness of the war seemed to be so very remote and in a way, ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by Antony Cook

We moved from Northumberland to Collyhurst after the war. My Dad worked at Victoria Station and my Mum got a job at Phillips Soles and Heels. We lived on Knoll Street which was next to the railway and had the gas works at the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1949 by Yvonne Tomczuk

I was born in 1940 at the shop at the top of Shillingstone Rd, the Corner Stores owned by my father Guy Moon. One of my first memories is a tank pushing out the corner of the shop wall, and of the G.I's giving us chewing gum, also ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1940 by David Moon

I lived at Twyning Farm at Shuthonger from my birth in October 1926 until 1944, as my father (James L. Brooksbank) owned and lived at this farm (1922-1953), although 1936 - 1944 I was away at boarding-school for much ...Read more

A memory of Shuthonger in 1940 by Ben W L Brooksbank

My parents lived at No. 7 The Crescent when I was born. Then - the sawmill was thriving. It burnt down sometime before 1950 when we moved away. There was a Lade at the back of the house which was a by pass of the Weir for the Mill to ...Read more

A memory of Dura Den in 1944 by Fergus Nicolson

I was born in Backworth in 1937 and lived in a large house at the bottom of Percy St until about 1945, i can dimly recall the end of the war but in no great detail. My father was the colliery engineer for the coal mines in ...Read more

A memory of Earsdon in 1947 by John Thompson

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1949

My birth certificate says I was born at Bushey Hospital in the April of 1943. I’m told that it was during an unusually hot spell. I lived at 84, Lynton Avenue in Colindale up to 1965 when I got married and moved away. There ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Peter Woolford