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My father was gardener at Pilmuir in about 1939- 40 and we lived in the lodge house.A wire-haired fox terrier dog seemed to go with the house. I remember seeing a German airplane being shot down almost over our house and I collected ...Read more

A memory of Haddington in 1940 by Bruce Blackadder

The building jutting out into Castle Hill on the left upper of this picture is no. 17 and was my Great Uncle Luther Paxton's plumbers shop. The shop was on the ground floor and he and his wife, Amy lived on the upper two ...Read more

A memory of Richmond in 1948 by Peter Hodgson

I first visited Carrog in 1939 as an evacuee, at the start of World War 2. I was accompanied by my two sisters, having travelled by train from Birkenhead on the Wirral. All the evacuees were escorted to the Church ...Read more

A memory of Carrog in 1940 by Edward James

During the 1940's my Mother worked as a part time Park Keeper at Valence Park, I and my older sister spent many hours in the park, it was the safest place to be during an air raid, I remember the doodle bug hitting the houses in ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1944 by Terry Mayo

Although I was born in Whitchurch [Bark Hill], we moved to Prees soon after. However, I was sent to stay with my grandmother most weekends and for a period I was sent to the Wesleyan school. My ...Read more

A memory of Whitchurch in 1940 by Jean Mary Copnall

Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

The house on Harbour Road was where I lived with my parents and sister for approx two years. We lived in one room in the gable end, then we were moved to the other end which was three rooms in a row. We lived there till ...Read more

A memory of Kinghorn in 1941 by Andrew Innes

Penny son amd parker, coop butchers and grocery, barbers, horlocks funeral, Wardona picture house, news agents, st botolphs school, and church. Springhead Road where my mother worked for Mrs Keen who had a drapers shop in Northfleet.The ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1942

Millie Grinsted nee Cheeseman was my great aunt. She was the sister of my paternal grandfather William Edward Cheeseman. I remember staying with her and Edward at times during and after the war. I remember on ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Ian Cheeseman

My uncle, the late William John Wilcox, was the proprietor of the 'Grapevine' from the mid 1930s through to the early 1960s. I remember it as a truly old fashioned 'pub' complete with a 'games room' with darts, shove ...Read more

A memory of Meare in 1940 by Barrie R Collins