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My family, James and Isa Lewis, brother James and myself lived in a semi-detached villa on Monifieth Road, Broughty Ferry opposite the school, for a period before and after the Second World War commenced. ...Read more

A memory of Broughty Ferry in 1940 by Alison Stratton

I was born in Blands school house in December 1945 where I lived with my eldest sisters Sheila and Janet and later my brother Keith. My mum looked after the children and my dad ran the school as headmaster, At the side of the ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1946 by Christine Scott

Tom and Arthur Smalley earned their living harvesting mussels and netting eels. Their boat was named 'Doreen Mary 2', another boat named 'Doreen Mary' was owned by Sonnie Braime; in fact they lived near each other in Pulvertoft ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

I remember going to the Ripple Road School. I started in the middle of the year 1949 I think. I left about the middle 1950s. I remember going to the corner shop to buy sweets like false teeth and the like. Then walking home with my ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1949 by Pat West

I was born in Colindale in 1937 living in Sheaveshill Ave. We had an Anderson shelter in the back garden in which I would sleep all night when bombing was bad, it was easier than getting me up when the sirens started at ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Jack Luxon

Hi, I lived at Lingdale at 27 North Terrace which was the last row of terraced houses near the shale heaps which were deposited from the iron ore mine which was situated in Stanghow Lane. The distance between the houses and the shale ...Read more

A memory of Lingdale in 1940 by George Searle

NO 4 THE GAP My memory of Marcham started in 1946-7. My grandmother, Lydia Lawrence, used to live at no 4 The Gap. She was born in Long Wittemham, then she married ...Read more

A memory of Marcham in 1946 by Graham Davis

I was born in the hospital in Mountain Ash in 1937, and lived until I was 21 at 20 Main Road, Ynysboeth, together with my 4 sisters (Betty - Gwyneth - Marian and Ellen). I went to school, firstly at the Infants School, and ...Read more

A memory of Ynysboeth in 1940 by John Williams

I would love to know if anyone knew of a large house in Smithies around abouts where the council depot is now. The building was called Millhouse as far as we know it was pulled down in the mid 1950s, the building would have been at the side of the reservoir.

A memory of Barnsley in 1944 by Mike B

I was born and brought up in the Milton. Lived at 2 Milton Rows. I can remember going to Crossshill School. Miss Foote and Miss Page were two of the teachers. I remember well the Miners Galas, the potato picking, and what ...Read more

A memory of Crosshill in 1940 by Anne Wright