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My mother, Queenie Grounds, was the headmistress of Lynfield House School from 1946 until 1953, when we moved from Lynfield to The Homestead at the top of Sandringham Road, where it met Lynn Road. When ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1946 by Valerie Curtiss (Grounds)

I have wonderful memories of the camp when I was young. I remember my father, Jack Quant, and a Mr Gardner had something to do with the clubhouse like one of the memories I have just read. It was ...Read more

A memory of Humberston in 1947 by Barry Quant

Hi from New Zealand, so good to see this site, found quite by accident. I was born in Oldchurch Hospital in 1946 and spend my childhood living at Laburnum Walk, Elm Park. Ayloff School was my first memory, crossing ...Read more

A memory of Hornchurch in 1946 by Barbara Bailey (Nee Fox)

I was in the Bursledon Hospital twice, first in 1949 and again in 1950. I was remitted there from the Childrens Hospital in Southampton; I was only 5 or 6 years old and have only vague memories of my visits. However, 2 things have ...Read more

A memory of Bursledon in 1949 by Dudley Hicks

I am 83 years old, my Grandparents lived in this village most of their lives until my Grandmother death in the 1940's when I was child I spent most of my weekends here my Grandmother lived in a cottage named Davis Cottages there ...Read more

A memory of St Albans in 1940 by Joan Matthews

The Sugar Bowl was always an open air pool and never an indoor one. We considered this pool 'posh' probably as it was more expensive than The Galleon, but it was nice to swim there as a treat. I now live in Somerset ...Read more

A memory of Burgh Heath in 1946 by Derek Hillman

I was born in my parents' house in The Mead, off Skinners Lane, in 1935. A year later my father became the proprietor of Ashtead Squash Rackets & Tennis Club. It was built by my grandfather, Edgar Littlewood, who built ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1940 by Jeremy Littlewood

I started my life in 1936 at Charlmont Road. These houses had no bathroom (we used a tin bath in front of the fire) and outside toilets. I went to Selincourt Road Schools, infants then juniors. I remember during the war the ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Brian Lawrence

To me the first eleven years of my life, growing up in Quarry Bank, was the most enjoyable. I was born Kenneth Graham Sewell, on the 26th January 1947, at 59 Saltwells Road, now renamed White City, and the whole country was in the ...Read more

A memory of Quarry Bank in 1947 by Ken Sewell

One of the few places in wartime Thorne where fun could be had for the town's children was the park. There were only two 'rides' - the American Swing and the Roundabout. Both were fully used, although the teenagers (not that we ...Read more

A memory of Thorne in 1945 by Brian Bristow