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When I was about 5 years old I remember my mum picking me up from Smallfield school on her bike, I was in the back on a little seat when a doodlebug roared overhead, and the engine switched off ... My mum panicked, and pushed me off the bike ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1943 by Michael Wright

I moved to Hatfield Peverel in late 1941, after my family was bombed out in London. My father took the Duke of Wellington pub over, where we lived until 1949. Yes they were good years in the village, but at the ...Read more

A memory of Hatfield Peverel in 1942 by Sylvia Cox Gromer

We moved to Colindale Avenue in 1942 shortly after the house had been repaired following a bomb hitting the tube station. I remember the acres of allotments stretching from Colindale ave to Colindeep lane past the British museum ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Brian Goodall

The place name comes from a narrow bridge over a stream that forms the boundary between Rochdale and Wardle on Halifax Road, by The Red Lion pub as it was then. Folk who lived in Smallbridge were once called "Sandknockers" ...Read more

A memory of Smallbridge in 1940 by Peter Butterworth

When I was six, I moved into 'Our Boy's Cafe' with my mother and grandfather. My uncle, aunt and cousin also lived with us in the accommodation above. It was the last cafe of many along Dock Road, Tilbury, so we had to ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury in 1948 by Julia Fraser

My family moved back to Thornton Heath, to 35 Gilsland Road, just off the High Street, at the end of the war and stayed until 1951. United Dairies was the shop on one corner and next to that a sweetshop and ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath in 1946 by S D Hunt

Ii lived in Park Road opposite the swimming pool; my sisters, brothers, and I went to St Peter in Chains School RC. I had a friend called Josephine Nash, she had 3 brothers; John, Paul, and Peter. Also I knew Elaine Hipwell who lived ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1941

My grandparents moved to Nant Bach in Llanelidan in the early 40's. My grandfather was Robert Wooldridge.We used to get buses from Liverpool to stay with him. He'd bring his bike to the main road to take our suitcases to the cottage. ...Read more

A memory of Llanelidan in 1948 by Beryl Coen

I lived at 42 Stratford Rd, upstairs in rented rooms. Below lived Mr Woodsell and his daughter Maureen. Opposite was Robert Hopkins, his dad was a carpenter, his mother taught piano. Along the road was the Mulkerns, Irish family ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1947 by Roy Mc C Lean

My first memory of Garsington is of being on the crossbar of my dad's bike which had a seat and bracket for my feet. Although we were a Garsington family my father had work at the Morris factory and moved to Cowley to ...Read more

A memory of Garsington in 1949 by John Yeates