Memories
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Life As A Young Boy In Saltdean
THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more
A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by
One Day At A Time
A precised extract from the chapters in my biography relating to wartime evacuation, and particularly to Garnant. I stared morosely out of the window and watched the landscape slip by as the steam train chugged its way through ...Read more
A memory of Garnant in 1940 by
Saturday Mornings
Saturday mornings was when my mother and I would join the family next door for our day out, down to the Tarpots Corner and a bus into Wescliff by the playing fields and then a dancing lesson at Mimi Greens School of Dancing ...Read more
A memory of Great Tarpots in 1946 by
St Mary Chuch
I live in the USA, but my home was St Marychurch, a special place run by Catholic nuns during World War 2. I was barely two years old, and I was brought there with my five-year-old sister by my aunt, because my father was killed ...Read more
A memory of St Marychurch in 1943 by
Growing Up British
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
How I Gave Up Smoking In One Day!
I was born in 1934 at Weybridge in Surrey, close to where the River Wey joins the Thames, thus offering the dual attraction of open countryside and water - a totally irresistible combination to young boys set free ...Read more
A memory of Weybridge in 1940 by
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