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My name is Maggie Wilkinson. My mum Elizabeth Pilkington lived at Copthorne Convent, then it was called Bank Farm House, she was married from there on 6th June 1942. My parents were married at St John's church. Mum's stepfather ...Read more

A memory of Copthorne in 1942 by Mike Wilkinson

I remember the Town Hall at Cowbridge.  In those days there was no one way system around it like today.  The school boy interest was the Merryweather Fire Engine that was kept in a garage at the side of the Town Hall. Great fun to ...Read more

A memory of Cowbridge in 1940 by Roy Newton

We moved to 1 Greenford Gardens in 1936 from Northolt; it was a great place to grow up. Spent most of the time in Ravenor Park playing football/cricket, went to Bethams then Costons Junior with Mr Blount the Headmaster who lived ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1940 by John Meade

In the war years my father drove a lorry or a tractor for May & Hassle timber importers. He would pick up men at various places around the town with his lorry which had a hut on the back. Timber was stacked around Lincolnshire at ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

I remember Chattins. They had a machine powered by AIR to take the money to the office and then return the change and receipts to the customer, it went up the wall and across the ceiling and then disappeared into the back and ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1945 by Mary Myers

My Mam was evacuated to Hallbankgate, Brampton for a short time during the Second World War. She stayed (with her little sister Marina and my Grandma) on the farm of brother and sisters Willy, Maggie and Betty Blaine (could ...Read more

A memory of Hallbankgate in 1940 by Jane Gallagher