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I was born on 6th feb 1944 at 199 Havant Road, Drayton and had a happy childhood there with my 5 sisters and parents.    My father was a painter and decorator and we lived in the house until the late '50s. I ...Read more

A memory of Drayton in 1944 by John Cowan

Walmersley Road Recreation ground was later renamed Clarence Park. This is the bandstand where on summer Sunday afternoons there would be a band concert and deck chairs (strictly for the older generation of course). The house in the distance ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Janet Robinson

This was the town I grew up in until I was 8.  There is one day that stands out in my mind.  My mother had been informed that the local fruiterer had oranges. His location was about half a mile from our house.  England was ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1949 by Raymond Garfield

I was brought up in the white cottage mid-left, by the roadside, by my grandparents. The Crown Inn at the middle of the picture in the distance was run by Jim and Winnie Tuer, and I was friends with their daughter Ruth. ...Read more

A memory of Ainstable in 1949 by Kate Walker

As a trainee aircrew member of the RAF I was posted to Bridgnorth in 1943. I don't recall the exact location of the ITW (Initial training wing), but there we learned radio and morse code procedures, aircraft recognition and gunnery during an ...Read more

A memory of Bridgnorth in 1943 by Neville Robinson

For unruly behaviour, I was delivered to boarding school at the age of 4, after enjoying wonderful times on a Devon farm. I was taken to the Convent by my parents in an Austin 7. I remember crying and staring ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1948 by Rex Duffy

I was born in post-war Corringham into a large family that had been evacuated from the blitzed East End of London. I was christened and married at St. Mary's Church and I lived in Chamberlain Avenue (down the left fork of the ...Read more

A memory of Corringham in 1940

My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington. Water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. ...Read more

A memory of Warmington in 1940 by Michael Bennett

I was born at 1 Woodville Road, Cwm on the 15th November 1940. My Grandfarther was a Miner at the Marine Colliery. His fellow miners called him "Stonejar Morgan" because he took a stonejar full of water to work each day.He was a rescue worker during the "Six Bells" disaster.

A memory of Cwm in 1940 by David Kenny

This railway footbridge was one of my favourite places as an eleven and twelve year old lad, back in 1946 and 1947. I would stand for ages in the centre of this bridge just waiting for the next steam train ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1947 by Philip Harfleet