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I was trying to remember the number of crashed aircraft I had seen, and, in another life, dealt with. Despite the closeness of many airfields, Church Broughton being the ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall by John Mellor

BUTCHERS SHOP, WITLEY. My mother and father ran the butchers shop in Wheeler Street, Doris and Mick McCullough, from 1936 to 1953. I remember the sweet shop next door (Fairfields) and the Co-op opposite (now Witley ...Read more

A memory of Witley by Ann Enticknap

I lived in Barkingside from 1937 - 1950. I was 5 whan we moved to Merlin Grove from Forest Gate. There were fields and woods within a few minutes walk, sadly built over now. The library was a shop on the ...Read more

A memory of Barkingside in 1940 by James Baker

A relative of mine worked on the airfield for a private contractor until his death in 1940. His name was George Fynn, of Rainham in Essex. He was riding pillion on a motor bike whan they had a head on with an R.A.F. truck near the airfield. Would anyone know of this person?

A memory of Royston in 1930 by Bernie Fynn

Being the offspring of parents otherwise engaged, and only partially supervised by a succession of Nannies, whose only concern was that we should be clean and respectably dressed when we got up to mischief, ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1950 by Roger Williams

I first visited Hartfordbridge Flats, as the area was originally known, in 1949, when I lived at Farnborough. I too remember seeing various WWII aircraft on the site and the runway which extended southwards ...Read more

A memory of Blackbushe Airport by D Allum

I lived on the airfield from 1950 to 1956 and I remember it well. We lived in nissen huts that had been used by the Americans during the war. I attended Boreham school and we had to get on a Boons bus to get there. Has ...Read more

A memory of Boreham in 1950 by Victoria Manning

Our family the Portways lived in Boreham from 1926 when our dad Alf moved with his family from Howe street Great Waltham. Our parents met in the RAF and married in 1945. Our mum Pat lived on Boreham airfield then my sister was ...Read more

A memory of Boreham by jap48

We used to live on Borham Airfield when I was four until eight. They were nissan huts made of corugated iron, they had no baths but they had  electric. We had to have a tin bath hanging outside. T think Robert Mitchum the ...Read more

A memory of Boreham in 1951 by Pat Kings

After the war, on April 14th 1946, flying training ceased, and Lulsgate Bottom was abandoned by the RAF in October. The airfield was used by Bristol Gliding Club during the next ten years, but the accommodation ...Read more

A memory of Bristol by Paul Townsend