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My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction company. ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

THE LIFE & TIMES OF DONALD CHARLES WILLIAMS Personal recollections from Don Williams from Hailsham who lived in Saltdean from 1937 to 1952 - Many thanks for these wonderful stories & photo's of Saltdean in the ...Read more

A memory of Saltdean in 1940 by Don Williams

Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean at ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1947 by David Imisson

First school London Road Infants, a short time in Scotland and then the Church Infants, each school day walking from Theatre Street (two doors up from 'The Cherry Tree') through the market place and down Church Street. I moved on to the ...Read more

A memory of Dereham in 1940 by Iain Innes

My mother left Yorkshire with me in 1945 when I was four years old. She worked for a Mrs Curzon at Arrochar house in Rothiemay as a cook and general help. I think the owners were titled people. I remember collecting ...Read more

A memory of Rothiemay Crossroads in 1945 by Lucie Nee; Roberts

Does anyone remember there being a children's home in Haywards Heath in the mid to late 1940s? I was sent to one, along with my brother, when we were both infants. Our family had come down from Scotland and were homeless. My ...Read more

A memory of Haywards Heath in 1948 by Ursula Deakins

It was a bad snow storm and the doctor almost didn't get there. My mum had been in dry labor for a week, or so she told me. I was stuck in the birth canal and the doc had to pull me out with ...Read more

A memory of Blackburn in 1947 by Bob Fox

Born in blanchland street (well Richard Murray hospital) in 1944 . Lived there till 1952 then moved to bridgehill, lived there till married, now living in Scotland but still very interested in all that goes on in Consett.

A memory of Blackhill in 1944 by Helen Cassidy

My father Colin Seaton was born and raised in Auldgirth, he was the youngest of 5 children. He left Scotland when he was 17 and now lives in australia. Does anyone remember the Seaton family at all? I visited Auldgirth back in 2007 ...Read more

A memory of Auldgirth in 1949 by Laura Seaton

I met Frida on vacation in Douglas Isle of Man around 1946. I was from Glasgow in those days. Young love ran rampant. Frida cried when she headed home to Sutton Coldfield and I to Glasgow. As they are wont to say in Scotland - I loved ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1946 by Ewan Fallon