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I am adding to my brother's memory written today about our evacuation to North Wales in 1944. A fuller description has been written by myself on BBC North East Wales ...Read more

A memory of Coedpoeth in 1944 by Fred Schofield

I lived with my parents at 28 The Green, Mossband from around 1942 (when I was one year old) until 1949, when my Father, Edward Lovie (a WD constable) died from throat cancer. My memories are all fairly traumatic and ...Read more

A memory of Mossband Ho in 1940 by Iain Lovie

I grew up at Bulls Bridge and my maiden name was Betty Miles. I went to Western Road school from the age of 5 to 14 and spent all my single life at Bulls Bridge because dad worked for the British Waterways and we had one of the ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1942 by Jan Theobald

Those of us at Colerne school who passed our 'scholarship' exam at the age of about eleven usually went on to Chippenham Secondary School, which probably goes under a different name now: it's at ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1940 by John Bunting

I was born in the former Mechanics Institute in Derwent Street, Blackhill in 1946 where my grandfather was the caretaker. My name was Ann Wall and my grandparents' name was Redshaw. My mother lived with my grandparents in the ...Read more

A memory of Blackhill in 1946 by Ann Westgarth

Hello. My father lived at Chickenley Hall in the 1940s as he was adopted and brought to the home by the Armitage family. He eventually came to Scarborough, North Yorkshire and has started to write his memoirs which are still in ...Read more

A memory of Chickenley in 1940 by Steve Armitage

We were evacuated to North Molton during the Second World War, I remember going to the school and being billeted in various homes, one on the hill near a baker's shop - what lovely smells. I also remember the Lysander plane that ...Read more

A memory of Swimbridge in 1940 by Dennis Broad

I remember when there used to be a place in Victoria Park, Latchford, called `The Pavillion'. It had a row of bushes beside it - dividing it from a sunken paddling pond that had rather ornate brick walls around it and ...Read more

A memory of Warrington in 1945

I finally fullfilled a lifetime dream to visit Raughton Head, in particular the church where I was baptised in in September 1944 ie All Saints' Church. During the blitz of the Second World War my father decided ...Read more

A memory of Raughton Head in 1944 by Graham Gaylard

I have recently lost my uncle David James Bligh and I am trying to find some details with regard to his paternal family. I understand that his Grandfather William Frederick Bligh and his mother Elizabeth Rosey lived in Upper ...Read more

A memory of Westmarsh in 1940 by Linda Redmayne