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I remember the huts in Thames Rd - I lived in No.14, adjacent to the allotments from birth until I was 5 yrs old. Then moved to 46 Howard Rd Barking between Abbey Rd and Gascoigne Rd great memories of both homes. Vivid memories of ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1949 by Graham Smith(Mancey)

From just about where the photograph was taken I was born.  The house was called Forge House obviously because of the Forge which my father used as a shed to house chickens in and then used as a workshop for his carpentry.  He was ...Read more

A memory of Eastry in 1949 by Elizabeth Hunter

I lived at the house just at the top of photo. The outbuildings can clearly be seen in the adjoining field to the family home.  I spent all my childhood years playing with my brother and friends here. I used to love watching ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Hammond in 1944 by Stephanie Mcpherson

When my dad was demobbed after the war in 1946, we had to move back to London because of his job. We had all our funiture put on a lorry, and the local publican, a Ted Bland, delivered us to a requestioned place over a shop in ...Read more

A memory of Arlesey in 1940 by Michael Smith

This is the hospital where I was born in July 1947. My parents were living in Penycae at the time but in 1951 moved to England for my Dad's job. Apart from a brief visit to a relative in Wrexham in 1960, I have never returned to Wales and it is now my ambition to see Trevalyn Manor and Penycae.

A memory of Rossett in 1947 by Annie King

At one time I was a choir boy at All Saints Church. I cannot remember who was in the choir with me at the time but I do remember the vicar was the Reverend Bache. When I visited the church in 1997 while ...Read more

A memory of Shelsley Beauchamp in 1940 by Antony Cook

I was born at 27 Larkfield Estate (crescent) in 1937 and lived there until 1949. I went to school first to New Hythe Lane, then to Teapot Lane schools. I have memories of the war years, watching the dog fights overhead during ...Read more

A memory of Larkfield in 1940 by Robert Holden

I was born at Sutton on Trent in 1938 and, as it was then, No.1 Station Road. My Dad worked for Nottinghamshire County Council, as a Road Foreman. Memories of my time spent growing up in the village were brought back at a ...Read more

A memory of Sutton on Trent in 1940 by Kenneth Priestley

I was born at 1/161 Hingeston Street and lived their till 1960.

A memory of Handsworth in 1944 by Jacqueline Howell

i dont have a clear memory of pontypridd, i was a baby of 14 months, a twin when our mother died giveing birth to a baby, her name was margret olwyn birch,nee owen, we were all put in the childrens homes, and my twin and i was adopted by ...Read more

A memory of Pontypridd in 1943 by Howard Horgan