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In 1940 at age 1, I was moved into 123 Nelson Road with my parents and older brother.It was to be my permanent home for the next 20 years. Nelson road was split into two parts by Weston Park, the scruffy end between ...Read more

A memory of Crouch End in 1940 by David Hammond

I was evacuated to Torrington in 1940 during the Blitz. My two elder siblings, brother and sister, went to a farm somewhere in Devon. My mother, her new baby (my younger brother) and I went to Torrington. Mum ...Read more

A memory of Taddiport in 1940 by Tom Ware

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER A LITTLE ROW CALLED ***BRITAINS,BRITONS/ROW*** ?? MY GRANDPARENTS LIVED THERE, IT WAS A BIT STEEP AND IT LED DOWN TO SOMEWHERE I THINK WAS CALLED TAN YARD BROW ? IT HAD A LITTLE STREAM ON IT ANDI ...Read more

A memory of Gorton in 1940

The building with the turret is Acton Lodge where my grandparents Drs John and Mary Leedham-Green lived from 1946 until the late 1980s. The two cottages to the right had been demolished when my mother first visited (in the 1960s - ...Read more

A memory of Southwold in 1946 by Kay Leedham Green

I lived in Worcester Park from 1942-1970. I went to school at Sparrow Farm Infants and Junior School from 1947-1953, so went passed the Queen Vic every day. Sometimes my mother and I would go to North Cheam to do some ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam in 1947 by Margaret Bond

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 ...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

I have very fond memories of Barnt Green. My sister went to Woodruff School between 1937 and 1942 and I was there between 1945 and 1948; my short stay was due to the Principle, Miss Jackson, deciding that she no longer wanted any ...Read more

A memory of Barnt Green in 1940 by John Dales

I was born in the war years in Broadwater, we moved to Goring when I was 2 years old. I grew up in open fields and smallholdings and nurseries. I remember going down to the beach and playing on what is now the Greensward, then it ...Read more

A memory of Worthing in 1947 by Pamela Richards

I remember the cottages which were very near the road,coming down Eastwood Road from High Street. I regret no photos but remember the last one farthest from the High Street was used as a Cobblers workshop and the buses that ...Read more

A memory of Rayleigh in 1940 by Ken Soulsby