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I have just learnt that my aunt, Rhona Mortimer (her maiden name) and her sister Grace Mortimer were evacated to Darley Abbey during the Secopnd World War years. I think was only for 3 months. My dad Len Mortimer was evacuated nearby. ...Read more

A memory of Darley Abbey in 1940 by Wendy Mortimer

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

My Father, Ken Mclennan, was in a Forestry Regiment of the Royal Australian Engineers posted to Scotland at the outbreak of WWII, prior to being deployed to New Guinea to fight the Japanese. Whilst in ...Read more

A memory of Cirencester in 1940 by Scott Mc Lennan

I used to play in the abbey in the war time as then it had an air bomb shelter, we used to think that there was a tunnel under the abbey to the cathedral.

A memory of Lincoln in 1942 by Dave Ainsley

During the Second World War my parents, my sister and I moved from Birmingham to stay with my paternal grandparents at New Mill Bridge wher my grandmother Harriet Cook owned and ran the local store "Cooks ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Walsh in 1941 by Antony Cook

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts