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I was evacuated about 1943. I can remember a field, I think of cauliflowers, opposite, and a bluebell wood somewhere at the bottom of the road. The people next door were called Ackridge(I don't know if that's spelt right), they had twins ...Read more

A memory of Cudworth in 1943 by Jean Nicholson

I was born there in 1928, in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and lived in Bournemouth till 1962. There is no where like Bournemouth, lovely beaches, stores, theatres, the Chines, and Shell Bay. An excursion to ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1940 by Jean St. Dennis

I lived at the bottom of St. Vincent Road, near to Temple Hill Estate and Bow Arrow Lane. We used to play in the fields and I remember Temple Hill Estate being built. I remember the air raids in the war and the bomb falling in ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945 by Phyllis Gregory

My Beginning, at Sole Street near Cobham Kent. (9th March 1946 - 2nd January 1951) I was born on Saturday March 9th 1946 at 3.29pm at Temperley, The Street, Sole Street, Kent. I was delivered at home by the ...Read more

A memory of Sole Street in 1946

I lived in Blythe Bridge and travelled to school at the Burslem Junior Technical College in Moorland Road, Burslem over a period between 1943 to 1945. The journey by train on the old loop line was a lot of fun. I ...Read more

A memory of Burslem in 1944 by Roy Allen

I occasionally came to live with my sister in Spondon during the war years. I lived in Ockbrook Road, the house was named Tarbet House. At the rear across two fields was an anti-aircraft battery of four guns, which when they were ...Read more

A memory of Spondon in 1942 by Roy Allen

I was born at 13 Percival Road Feltham and went to Feltham Hill School up to Dec 1949 when we moved to Bedfont, so I then went to Southville School, then Fairholme and Longford, and in 1954 to Twickenham Tech. Used to go to the Feltham Youth club by the Rec.

A memory of Northolt in 1941 by peter_f

During the early years of the Second World War my father was posted to the Royal Artillery camp in Almondbury and when we were bombed in our home in Hull he found a small house for my mother, sisiter and I in ...Read more

A memory of Kirkheaton in 1940 by Raymond Taylor

Trying to find information about Hyders bungalow, Dorothy & Charles lived there in the early 1940's. Any information would be extremely grateful. Yvonne Green

A memory of Lowfield Heath in 1940 by Yvonne Green

Hello Alan, I was interested in your comments about the camp. Are you sure you were there in 1940? I was trying to see the rest of your article but somehow I couldn't get the rest of it. You didn't say what school you attended and ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1940 by Les May