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I started at St.Anne's in the early 40's and was evacuated with some of the girls to Baccombe Warren, Wendover, as my father was in the war and my mother was looking after his business in Bond Street, Ealing. I remember Rosemary and ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1940 by Bernadette Meddeman

My mother and I lived in a cottage opposite the pub, Rose Cottage, which is not there now - I believe the site is now someone's garage. I was born in 1940 and am not sure what age I was in Bason Bridge but I do remember ...Read more

A memory of Bason Bridge in 1940 by Valerie Connelly

These memories have been contributed by Myra Greer. In 1947, when I was 7, my mother and I moved from Salisbury in Wiltshire where my father was stationed at RAF Boscombe Down, to near Llanfarian, where my grandparents had ...Read more

A memory of Llanfarian in 1947

I was born Reading in 1945 and went home to The Red House in Sonning which adjoined the White Hart. My earliest recollection is when I was at the hotel at the age of 5, while visiting my grandmother who was the owner of the ...Read more

A memory of Sonning in 1945 by Brian Robinson

Does anyone remember the old farm? It stood on the site where the primary school now stands. It later became an ARP post (I think), but I used to go and watch the farmer feed the pigs.. I loved it.

A memory of Heaton Chapel in 1940

I lived in 38, Gertrude St, when I was 4yrs old, we lived with our grandparents, Mr and Mrs Goyne after the war. I started at New Bottle School at 5 and I remember moving to 2 New Bottle Row (a colliery house) opposite ...Read more

A memory of Grasswell in 1944 by Jean Tempest

A St Marychurch boy, I lived at Hampton Farm Cottage, St Marychurch... and I can still smell the tar and the salt from old fisher and other boats pulled up on Oddicombe beach... and I can still feel the beautiful shining ...Read more

A memory of Oddicombe Beach in 1940 by Frederick Watson

I have very fond memories of Crayford particularly going to St Paulinus School down Iron Mill Lane. I was just a little boy but my father's work took us all over England at the time, and unfortunately we only ...Read more

A memory of Crayford in 1949 by John Robinson

My memories of Grays go back to the 1940's and 1950's the war years and before the London over-spill estates Of Belhurst Park and Basildon arrived. I was born and lived at 106 Bridge Road with my parents Thomas ...Read more

A memory of Grays in 1940 by Albert Wm Gosnall

My parents and I spent a very enjoyable week at Moreton Paddox when it was run by the WTA. At the finish of our week we went to Wales but, as I was awaiting my School Certificate results, I journeyed back alone to the Paddox ...Read more

A memory of Moreton Paddox in 1948 by Jeffrey Cox