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It is with found memories of growing up in the war years that I look back on my time in Palmers Green.   We had moved from Tottenham in 1940 when I was 6 years old into the shop and house opposite the Fox Lane Almshouses. My ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1941

In 1949 I was a pupil at Wrens Warren Camp School near Colemans Hatch. The school was housed in long huts which I believe to have been used in the war. It was a school for children who had been ill and needed some ...Read more

A memory of Colemans Hatch in 1949 by Maureen Davies

My father Ron Burchell worked at the shop seen in this photograph.  The Burchell family had lived in the village for generations.  The owner of the shop was Edward Grinstead and his wife Millie who was my ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Wendy Carey

On this picture you can see the steps used by the ferry man from the 1920s to the 1940s.  He used a pole to steer the punt from the Bury bank to the Amberley bank.  The punt was attached to a chain which stretched across ...Read more

A memory of Bury in 1940 by Wendy Carey

I was an evacuee in Middlestown in WWII, from East London. The first time was with my Mother and we were billeted in a small cottage which backed on to a barn belonging to a farm run by Mr and Mrs Cowan. We were there for approximately ...Read more

A memory of Middlestown in 1943 by Derek Ettridge

I remember Chattins. They had a machine powered by AIR to take the money to the office and then return the change and receipts to the customer, it went up the wall and across the ceiling and then disappeared into the back ...Read more

A memory of Brierley Hill in 1945 by Mary Myers

I was born on Woodville Street in 1945 and can remember all the back to back houses and all the shops below the parish church down to the bottom of Carr Lane, Annie Dawson's, the Co-op, Traveller's Rest ...Read more

A memory of Windhill in 1945 by Bryn Jonathan

I remember Harpley as a four-year-old, when it had no running water, electricity or gas.  I was evacuated there when first born, in 1939 during the war years and stayed in a cottage opposite to the village ...Read more

A memory of Harpley in 1940 by David Newman

We lived in a semi-detached house that joined a general stores at the top of the Hundred Steps. My brother was born in Elgin in 1943, and my father worked for the forestry with Polish workers, maybe prisoners ...Read more

A memory of Craigellachie in 1942 by susancastello

About 1940, at 9 years old, my private school, Willingdon College, was evacuated from Eastbourne to Ven House.  It was a most magnificent building, built in the 1700s and pretty unsuitable for a boys' school. I remember fine ...Read more

A memory of Milborne Port in 1940 by Mike Grizaard