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Hi all who read this... I have lived in Bratoft now in this very old cottage since 1992. I am very interested in any info about this cottage, Great Steeping Cottage, or Steeping Cottage as it was once called. The property was ...Read more

A memory of Bratoft in 1940

I have just been contacted by a Heather Shepherd who recognised my surname as it turned out her grandmother and I were neighbours for the first 20 years of my life. I write to say thank you to 'Francis Frith' for enabling my memories ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1944 by John Scott

I spent my childhood in Wortley, born and bred around th church of St John's the Evangelist at 35a Dixon Lane. I went to school at Upper Wortley and spent many happy hours around Wortley and "The Rec". We moved ...Read more

A memory of Lower Town in 1944 by Keith Hatfield

Hello, I was at this children's home for a few months around Christmas time around 1947-49. I am trying to put the pieces together as to why I was sent there and what it was all about, as my ...Read more

A memory of Corfe Mullen in 1948

We moved to Southend during 1944 and stayed there for about a year till May 1945. A group of boys who lived in Cheltenham Avenue, off York Road and myself decided to take a boat to the boating lake where ...Read more

A memory of Southend-on-Sea in 1945 by Alan Summers

I was evacuated during the war to Brynhoffnant with my brother. We lived in Fulham, London. My brother and I were parted, he stayed just up the road to where I was. I went to stay in the Police Station in ...Read more

A memory of Brynhoffnant in 1942 by June Taffurelli

My father was in the Home Guard during the Second World War, and we three children spent our school holidays with him at Westward Ho!. My sister says we travelled to Bideford and then by gas bus to Westward Ho!. Daddy had a flat in ...Read more

A memory of Westward Ho! in 1940 by Ann Sandells

I attended Leigh Boys Grammar from Sept 1944 to 1950/51. I cycled from Culcheth to Butts Bridge then along the Canal towpath to School. There were still a few horse drawn barges then. Friends at School were ...Read more

A memory of Leigh in 1944 by Malcolm Atherton

Although I lived in Worcester Park, we were bussed to Ridge Road school in a private coach laid on by the council. This was 1943-1945, and it saved us using two buses for the journey (213 and 93). Miss King was one ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam in 1944 by Tony Tester

Earliest memory was the wedding of my uncle, Harry Copnall...this would have been in the 1930s though before war was declared in 1939. My next vivid memory was an anniversary Sunday at the Methodist chapel in the village. This ...Read more

A memory of Prees in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall