Search Results

I remember regularly walking from St.Albans via Batchwood and through Childwickbury on Sundays and stopping with my parents for a drink of lemonade and a packet of biscuits at this public house. This would have been during ...Read more

A memory of Childwick Bury in 1940 by Rosemary Jones

I was born in Jan 1936 in Witham, where my father's family had settled in the 1790's. When I was two my parents moved into one of the new council houses at the north end of Church Street, so I went to Chipping Hill Infants School. I can ...Read more

A memory of Witham in 1940 by David Woodwards

I can remember a POW camp just inside Boldmere Gates. The Americans used the inmates to destroy lots of things at Jubillee Hill(?) at the sand pits, when war ended. This was material from the Streetly Camp area. Lots of it ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1945 by Gordon Baker

I was born at 50 Nancy Road, Grimethorpe on the 12 December 1944. At this time this address was the White City police house and had the West Riding police crest attached to the front of the house. My dad, Robert Cox, had come down ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1944 by David Cox

During the war we lived at 4 Sunnyside Terrace. At one point during 1942 Mr Chaffey, the coalman, could not deliver coal because his horse and cart could not get up the hill because of ice and snow. We were rapidly running out of ...Read more

A memory of West Lulworth in 1942 by Albert Spavins

I know you. You are the little boy who came skipping out of your house to tell us all that 'We had won the War'. I was born at No. 8 - all the children played together in that cul-de -sac. John Heard's sister was my best friend. ...Read more

A memory of Deal in 1940

I went to St Anne's from 1944 - 1952. Enjoyed it most of the time with the gym, hockey and high jump, not much else. Mother Mary Clare was the Headmistress, quite gentle, and Mother Mary Dominic was in charge of drama etc. Enjoyed the ...Read more

A memory of Sanderstead in 1944 by Beryl Couchman

My memories of the caravan site go back to the 1940s when my parents had a caravan there. It was situated at the edge of the site where there is an open field and a footpath. I went back last July for the first time in about 60 years ...Read more

A memory of Swalecliffe in 1940 by Keri Green

I was born at my grandmother's house in Chavey Down Road. Her name was Mary-Ann Bye. I only knew her, as my grandfather had died many years before. My mum, Edith Ellen Bye was one of five children and we lived in Eastbourne ...Read more

A memory of Chavey Down in 1948 by Carol Evans

I was 19 years old, in the R.A.F. at Chivenor from October, 1948 to June, 1949 and was at the dance-hall in Barnstaple one of those nights in April, 1949. Across the room was the loveliest girl I had ever seen, brown wavy hair to her ...Read more

A memory of Barnstaple in 1949 by Kenneth Hughes