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I was born in 1939, the year war started, and remember being lifted out of bed in the middle of the night and the barrage balloons looked like big elephants in the sky. I also remember the table shelter in the lounge which I ...Read more

A memory of Harborne in 1940 by whisky1974

I was born in London in 1938. When war broke out the following year my father sent my mother and myself down to Devon but soon after that he, and many of his regimental colleagues in the Army, rented a large country ...Read more

A memory of Horney Common in 1940 by Juliet Baxter

I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat above ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

I was born at Hill View Lamberts Castle in the 1940s. Mum use to run a small tea rooms and I remember a hiking organisation called the Holiday Fellowship calling their once a week. No mains water, electricity or gas made ...Read more

A memory of Lambert's Castle in 1940 by Michael Loving

Born at Petersfield in 1940, my first home was Berry Cottage, down Sandy Lane, opposite Sibley's farm. Berry cottage had only 4 rooms (2 up and 2 down), no running water, only a well and later a tap down in the lane. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Rake Firs in 1940 by Monica Stewart

I was born in 1934 in my grannie's cottage which lay behind Daisy's in the Court, I used to go in to Daisy's to see and sometimes play with her son Bob who still lives in Torrington, I also remember well Mrs Edie Baker who lived next ...Read more

A memory of Taddiport in 1940 by Gordon Birch

Born in 1939 and living in Banstead Road during the war, I have many memories of Purley, Croydon and Coulsdon. An alleyway ran from the High Street to the station, where I used to meet my father in the evenings from the ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1940 by Frances Casey

Hi, my name is Brian Nicoll. My mother, father and I lived in 10 Frankland Rd from 25/9/35 when I was born until 1956 when I got married. As a small boy I used to have a friend called Roger Gosney who lived over the ...Read more

A memory of Croxley Green in 1940 by Brian Nicoll

my memories relate from the very early forties till the early eighties. I was born in Andover in 1937.My mother was a Lambourne and was born in Thruxton in 1903 at Rose cottage which is just to the left of the "George" looking ...Read more

A memory of Thruxton in 1940 by Ronald Hodgson

I was born in 1943 in Bankfield Avenue, Cadishead. When I was 5 we moved to a brand new council house in Devon Road, on the same day I started school which was 2 minutes away round the corner. There were 6 in our family, ...Read more

A memory of Cadishead in 1940 by Jean Walsh