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My name is Norma Webster, now Evans. I was born in Bredbury in 1938 and at first lived in Annabel Rd. My parents became caretakers of Bredbury Hall until 1948 when we all migrated to Australia. Bredbury Hall was a ...Read more

A memory of Bredbury in 1944 by Norma Evans

I was born in 1941 and lived at Austage End, Kings Walden; next door were my grandparents, Bob and Jessie. Bob was employed on the Harrison estate as a Game-keeper. I have photos of the V.E. and V.J. day parties. I attended the village school when the head teacher was Miss Etherington.

A memory of King's Walden in 1941 by Margaret Reed

My father was a patient at Heswall in the late 40's. He was suffering with Perthe's disease (a disease of the hip) and he was there for about 18 months. His name was Alan Rudkin. He was ...Read more

A memory of Heswall in 1948 by Alan Rudkin

Reg died recently in New Zealand where he lived since 1950's He was a child miner (14) in 1944 and I would like to collect a pit check or information of that time. He had fond memories of his life in ...Read more

A memory of Goldthorpe in 1946 by Paddy Merrill

I lived at 11, wickham highams park until I got married in 1968. Went to Selwyn infants which was mixed then went next door to the junior girls school as the boys school was the otherside of the infants. At age 11 went to Sidney ...Read more

A memory of Highams Park in 1947 by Christine Bouchard

The Colerne 'cross-tree', as it was called, which can be seen at the left side of this photograph of the market square and church, was an elm, I think. It was already looking pretty ancient when I lived there in ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1940 by John Bunting

I was at the school 1943/44 and I think the headmaster was a Mr Hastings. I remember watching all the air transport planes and gliders crossing for D-Day. We have a very pretty teacher who would occasionally allow us ...Read more

A memory of Dockenfield in 1943 by Jeremy Freeman

My father, Samuel Thomas Harrison, worked on the Birmingham Co-Op Nurseries between 1948 and 1952. We lived in a flat over what had been the laundry for the 'Big House'. Later the laundry was developed into a very attractive house ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1940 by Geoffrey Harrison

I am Anne Keating (nee Drake) and was on holiday at the outbreak of war and stayed there for the duration. My Grannie owned Wendon where Marjorie & Olive were evacuated, I remember them both, we were all about the same ...Read more

A memory of Borth-y-Gest in 1940 by Anne Keating (Nee Drake)

Scouting Life during the Forties I was born in January 1936 in a large village, Lemington in Northumberland, England. Lemington bordered on the limit of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was a working class area ...Read more

A memory of Lemington in 1944 by George Ritson