Memories
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Pollards Hill In The 1940s 1950s
My name is Paul Wood, born in Greenwood Road in 1940. We didn't get blitzed much, but we had a land mine in our road and we were all evacuated. Buzz bombs or doodle bugs were a different matter, we had 8 in the ...Read more
A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by
My Time In Charlmont Road.
I started my life in 1936 at Charlmont Road. These houses had no bathroom (we used a tin bath in front of the fire) and outside toilets. I went to Selincourt Road Schools, infants then juniors. I remember during the war ...Read more
A memory of Tooting in 1940 by
Castle Hill Close
I remember living in the post war prefabs,in I think it was called Castle Hill Close,number 4,right next to a power pylon.Yoy could walk across an empty field to the New Addington Hotel,then into Addington.I can always ...Read more
A memory of New Addington in 1948 by
Braintree County High School
I attended Braintree County High School from 1944 to 1950. Nihil Nisi Optima I recall as the school motto, and the school song started with the words “With hearts close knit in comradeship …” When sung at morning ...Read more
A memory of Braintree in 1940 by
Addition To Con's Entry
Being Con's older brother, my memories go back a bit further, having started school about the day war was declared, going to the village school, with Miss Burling(?) - rumour had it that she changed the spelling of her ...Read more
A memory of Figheldean in 1940 by
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