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In 1949 there was a large outbreak of Scarlet Fever in the U.K. I was just four years old and was diagnosed with Scarlet Fever. I was admitted to Cuddington (I lived in Banstead) and spent the next five weeks there. I ...Read more

A memory of Nork in 1949 by David Hopkins

It was 1941 or 42 - I was 6 or 7 then. I was a quiet kid, shy, only child. We lived in Walker, close to the Navel Yard. My dad was RAF in North Africa and Mom worked in the shipyard. So I was evacuated. After a ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1941 by Don Telford

My birth certificate says I was born at Bushey Hospital in the April of 1943. I’m told that it was during an unusually hot spell. I lived at 84, Lynton Avenue in Colindale up to 1965 when I got married and moved away. ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Peter Woolford

My parents were Gerald and Phyllis Smith, we lived in Goldsel Road from about 1939/40, having moved from 'Crescent Gardens'. My father worked at Philip Ladds Nurseries, which was owned and run by his uncle Philip. My father ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1940 by Gerald Smith

I was born at Bury Cottages, Ivington. My grandmother and maiden aunt lived there. The midwife was Nurse Norman. I was christened at Ivington Church where my mum and dad were married. Also my brother was born in the same black and white ...Read more

A memory of Ivington in 1945 by Wendy Blunt

I first came to Glasbury when my father - Fred Whitchurch - became head gardener at the Maesllwch Castle Gardens. This was 1945, when I was but six years old. I went to Coedybolen School, where at that time there were ...Read more

A memory of Glasbury in 1945 by Robin Whitchurch

I lived in Addlestone for almost twenty years and still have family there. My memories are St Paul's School - Infants through to Secondary Modern; the Red Room, which was definitely haunted, according to my school friends; ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1946

The Blitz started with the Sirens wailing in the early evenings, to warn of the approach of enemy planes. Then complete silence for quite a long time as we waited with mounting apprehension in the passage way, mother, myself, Dennis and David ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Arthur Cottrell

I was born on Sunday 6th Frbruaqry 1944 in the residential area of the Central Bar, Moore Street, Aughnacloy, Nurse Shields was the midwife. The family moved to Cross Lane prior to moving to Moygashel in 1949. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Aughnacloy in 1948 by Deirdre Carroll

The Army My call up papers came with a railway warrant for Gloucester, where I and another group of lucky lads, were picked up by army lorry and taken to the barracks of the Gloucester Regiment for our six weeks basic training. Unloaded ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1947 by Arthur Cottrell