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I believe everyone who lived in Crouch End (also Muswell Hill) during the period 1941-71 were very lucky as the area offered virtually everything one would ever wish for. In fact, although I now live in Norfolk I retain very ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End in 1941 by Malcolm Cook

I was also born at Perivale Maternity but in 1942. We lived for many years in Oldfield Lane three doors away from the Station which I remember the P.O.Ws working on. I finished my school years at Costons Sec. ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1942

I boarded at St. Catherine's from 1942 until 1948, which I believe was connected to Middlesex County Council during that time. I was 3 years old when I started, my home was in Victoria Square, Clifton and my parents ...Read more

A memory of Almondsbury in 1942 by Tim Latty

I was born in Middlesex hospital in 1937. We lived in Carpenter Gardens. I went to Winchmore Sec Mod from 1942 to 1952. My dad was a policeman in Winchmmore Hill, we moved to Great Yarmouth when my dad retired in 1953. ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1942 by Edward Shearing

I was born in St Peters St, Islington, 1935, bombed out late 1943, with nowhere to go, had a makeshift home in Aloysius College for a time until we were given a place in 4 Montague Road, Honsey, N8, that's where I knew what it was like to ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1944 by George Burton

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY BACKGROUND: My mother Milly and father Bert moved to Winchmore Hill from Camden/Kentish Town. I was born in 1944 at The North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton. I grew up initially ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill in 1944 by Richard Starling

I believe this is a photograph of me, James Ernest Thomas Massey, being pushed in my pram by my father Ernest James Massey, and mother Rosina Massey, towards our home above Dolcis shoe shoe at 5 Burleigh Way, Enfield Middlesex, sometime in the first year of my life. God Rest their souls.

A memory of Enfield in 1945 by James Massey

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

Towards the end of the Second World War my parents met and married while on active service in Egypt. As soon as my mother knew she was expecting me, the Royal Air Force sent her back to England on a troopship ...Read more

A memory of Swiss Cottage in 1945 by John Howard Norfolk