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My memories start long before there was a Tithe Farm estate. In my time it was a farm and the footpath I used to go to school started there, it meandered al the way over the fields to Carcutt farm, where I lived ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1940 by Barbara Ercegovic

We'd had our usual five weeks school holidays when Hitler's Luffwaffe gave us another few days off. His bombers scampering back to the continent, after presumably bombing Midlands cities, jettisoned another, ...Read more

A memory of Flitwick in 1943 by Maureen Kerr

I was so pleased to come across a site talking about 'my' family village of Hessenford. I was also evacauated to Hessenford with my mum and spent my 1st birthday there. This was the first of many August holidays with my Great Aunt ...Read more

A memory of Hessenford in 1944 by Judy Sharp

I attended Leigh Boys Grammar from Sept 1944 to 1950/51. I cycled from Culcheth to Butts Bridge then along the Canal towpath to School. There were still a few horse drawn barges then. Friends at School were ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1944 by Malcolm Atherton

My father, Charles Axford, found a mine on the beach in the morning. As it was a hot summers day he carried it into the back room upstairs of the Watch House as he knew many people would be coming & informed ...Read more

A memory of Porthpean in 1944 by Christine Dodgson (Nee.Axford)

I first saw Hinton Blewett on a late September day when arriving at my prep school, Colchester House. This was housed in Hinton Blewett Manor, which was its wartime home. Its true home was in Clifton, Bristol but ...Read more

A memory of Hinton Blewett in 1945 by John Nurcombe

I remember queueing on a Saturday morning in the lane between the smell of the corner bakery and the Saturday morning flicks at the Regal when mum could afford it, old school friends Len Meek (his dad worked on the ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1946 by John Scott

As a child (b1940) I lived at 3 Avenham Colonnade from 1946 until I married in 1964. The late Georgian terrace (built abt 1836) comprises 6 houses built on the slope alongside Avenham Walks ("The Top Walks") . ...Read more

A memory of Preston in 1946 by Mike Lambert

My father, Richard (Dick) Cherrington was the village policeman in Nether Wallop during World War 2 and I was born in the Police House in the village in August 1944. My first memories ever were of an apple tree in our garden ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop in 1947 by Adrian Cherrington

I moved to Spencer Avenue, Hayes, when I was 5 and the war had just finished. My earliest recollections were of starting school at Yeading Lane and walking there through thick snow. Luckily we had school dinners so ...Read more

A memory of Hayes in 1947 by Doreen Walton