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I remember Guy Fawkes night in Convent Garden, Notting Hill just after the war. The bomb sites were full of adventure and wood to build huge bonfires. For a couple of weeks prior to the big night we Convent Garden Gang ...Read more

A memory of Notting Hill in 1947 by Dennis Rawlings

I remember all of the things written about Gretna in the 1950s already published. The sweet shop also sold wonderful red ice lollies. My best friend was Linda McTravers. My uncle was drowned in the Solway Firth in 1917, long ...Read more

A memory of Gretna in 1950 by Judy Selby Boothroyd

My name is Paul Wood, born in Greenwood Road in 1940. We didn't get blitzed much, but we had a land mine in our road and we were all evacuated. Buzz bombs or doodle bugs were a different matter, we had 8 in the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Paul Wood

Born at Baxterhead Farm in 1938, later lived at Butcherhead Farm. Attended village school, teacher Miss Davies, at playtime end she would blow a cuckoo whistle. Had to go to Sunday school but had to walk to Hawkshaw with ...Read more

A memory of Affetside in 1940 by Frank Ryle

I remember Splott, I grew up there, and my brother still lives there. We were growing up very poor  and scruffy, same as all the kids, one difference though, we were the Black Dixons. The other difference was we were not Catholic, so ...Read more

A memory of Splott in 1950 by Lavinia Spottiswoode

As a young lad we visited the Constitutional Holiday Camp for a number of years, as far as I can remember I went with my parents from about 1949 to 1955. At that time my parents were living in East London which ...Read more

A memory of Hopton on Sea in 1940 by John Allen

We lived in Ulleswater Road, which was the first road in N14 Southgate, but was really much closer to Palmers Green N13. At age 5 and a few weeks I started at Hazlewood Lane Infants School in September ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green by Martin Beckett

Re: March 1944 - does anyone remember the doodle bug (V1 rocket) that hit Morland Avenue close to Westhill Primary School, where I attended? Clive Jeffrey, now a Canadian living in Mission City, BC

A memory of Dartford by Clive Jeffrey

Sadly, Langleybury School is no more. I had the good fortune to work for the school starting in 1989 and I continued until its closure many years later when it was merged with Francis Combe School in nearby Garston. My ...Read more

A memory of Langleybury in 1989 by John Howard Norfolk

I lived in Spindle Cottage (now, I see, simply 'Spindles') with my mother from mid-1940 till the end of the Second World War, from the age of five till ten; my father, who was a codes and ciphers officer in ...Read more

A memory of Eversley in 1940 by Martin Dilly