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My parents met at a place called Thornypits and married during the war years.They were George and Pam Edwards, he was a local barber and came from Killarney, Southern Ireland, she came from Ditcheat, near Shepton Mallet ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1942 by Pam Mears

Country born and bred, I regularly stayed with aunts and uncles in Seven Kings and Barkingside My regular haunts were Valentine's 'Cranbrook' and Barkingkside Parks as well as the disused airfield known as Fairlop. The latter being a ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1949 by John Wicks

I have mainly unhappy memories of Marsh Court. During the Second World War it was used as a convalescent home for children and in 1944 I was sent there after being knocked down by a car in Tettenhall ...Read more

A memory of Marsh Court in 1944

As I recall my mother was not a member of the local St. Nicholas Church Women's Union. She was a member of the Young Wives group. We lived in Mile Oak, I was born there in 1944. On occasion she would attend meetings in ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1940 by Bonny Cother

In 1940, during the Second World War, my great-grandmother Eva Ethel Cherry was killed in the bombing of the Morning Star public house in Swanscombe.

A memory of Swanscombe in 1940 by Donna Barham

The year may be slightly out here but during the war, German bombers , running for home would jettison any remaining bombs anywhere to give their planes a bit more speed. A man living in Hambledon left his house ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1943 by Michael George

In a corner of Kent known with justification as the Garden of England stood the magnificent building known as Lee Priory. It saddens me so much that it no longer exists. In my childhood a Colonel Belcher resided there with his ...Read more

A memory of Littlebourne in 1940 by Gordon Tumber

I went to St. Botolph's School on The Hill from 1945 to 1950 with my friend Molly Freeman who lived a few doors away from me in York Road. Molly was in the year ahead of me but her brother Georgie was in my class. Recently ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1949 by Jean Hendy

My grandparents moved to 49 Highcliffe Road in 1947. They were one of the first families to move into the new council houses. There they raised their six children, three of whom went to Beauchamps School. My mother and her sister ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1947 by Tracy Hanna

Can anyone help with memories of Brigadier Hill. There was Farrants the grocers, a Tudor Cafe, that sold orange ice lolles, which were mostly ice, a bakers, a church hall, a large stable yard, with straw and horses. St Michaels School, ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1949 by Dorothy Weedon