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I was born in 89 Abbot Street, just off Sunderland Road, in 1932, then we moved to the Gateshead end of Redheugh Bridge. When the Second World War started we moved to 20 Brussel Street. The Davidson family lived in the flat ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Allen Flynn

46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1943 by Graham Davis

When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad ...Read more

A memory of Doseley in 1944 by Angela Mathison

I was born on 24 September 1937 when my parents were living at No 54 Medway Drive, Perivale, Greenford. I thought I was born in a maternity hospital ( possibly Perivale Maternity Hospital, but no records now exist for this ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1940 by Alan Grose

I was born in Pill, Newport, Mon, in 1938 and with my grandmother Charlotte Selina Jane Rossiter used to visit relatives in Aberbargoed. As in other memories, I shall never forget passing beneath the endless drums in the air ...Read more

A memory of Aberbargoed in 1940 by Ernest Stephens

I was born in Recreation Close - a tiny 1 bedroom maisonette at the bottom of Wide Way. My Grandparents lived in Greenwood Road just around the corner. In June 1944, during the Second World War, a doodle bug exploded on the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Patricia Sullivan

I was born in the old cottage on the left, 175 High Street, in 1948, as June Glencross, my parents squatted there after the war, my dad became the local builder. In 1956 we moved up the road to the old congregational ...Read more

A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1948 by June Bennetts

I'm wondering if anyone remembers St. Mary's High School in Western Road. I attended the school when I was very young in 1946-9, before my family emigrated first to Canada, then to the USA. My best friends were Zena O'Shea, ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1949

In 1949 my mother and I moved to Bentworth when my mother became the Health Visitor for Alton. We first stayed at rooms in the White House which was diagonally across from the Dugdales in the Big house at ...Read more

A memory of Bentworth in 1949 by morrowmm

My father was the Head Gardener and also commander of the local Home Guard. We lived in the servants quarters of the Manor House which was otherwise unoccupied at the time. Later ...Read more

A memory of Whitfield in 1940 by David Hill