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My mother, Maude Doyle was billeted at a farm in Outwell while stationed at searchlight battery at Sutton Bridge that served as RAF base. Fighter aircraft used the gun butts there to adjust their cone of fire I understand. The farmer's ...Read more

A memory of Outwell in 1940 by Jeffrey Masters

My name was Angela Saunders when, in about August 1940, aged 5, I was evacuated from Kingsbury, North London to Crossways Farm, Curland Crossroads during the Second World War. I lived with the lovely Cottey family - friends of a ...Read more

A memory of Curland in 1940 by Angela Beer

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill with ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1940 by Joan Roseveare

In the early 1940s I went to Manor House School. It was run by Dr and Mrs Wallace, and occupied the former Rectory in South Street (the site is now covered by a housing estate and the motorway to Portsmouth). Some of the ...Read more

A memory of Havant in 1942 by Barry Mahony

I lived in Culcheth when I attended LGS .I uused to catch a bus, alight at Butts Bridge then walk along the canal towpath and enter the school grounds by the air raid shelters. Bill Major was the Headmaster, a man we all feared. ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1942 by Fred Walmsley

New wartime recruit, the shock of the first ten days at Ganges Annexe. I don't know how I survived. The sadistic attitudes of main establishment P.O. & L/S. are not yet erased from my memory On Sunday afternoons those of us ...Read more

A memory of Pin Mill in 1943 by Peter Galloway

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 Bill ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1944 by Malcolm Atherton

I grew up in Southall in the 1940s and 50s. We lived in Gordon Road in a terraced house that backed onto The Tube. We had an outside toilet, no bathroom and, until I was about 6, no electricity. At the age of 5 I could change ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1945 by John Lennon

Does anyone remember Ashwell Hall which was in Great Bardfield (I think)? I was born there and my grandfather Mark Allen, and grandmother Alice lived there. My grandfather, worked for Captain Cook and ran the apple orchards, there ...Read more

A memory of Finchingfield in 1945 by Jan Clark

The Army My call up papers came with a railway warrant for Gloucester, where I and another group of lucky lads, were picked up by army lorry and taken to the barracks of the Gloucester Regiment for our six weeks basic training. Unloaded at ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1947 by Arthur Cottrell