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My former surname was Lovelock, I attended Chace Girls' School in Rosemary Avenue and I used to go through Hilly Fields on my way home from school to Crews Hill where I lived. Yes, I too remember the talent competiton held in the ...Read more

A memory of Enfield in 1955 by Anne Beer

Lots of memories of the MacCubban Shield Competitions with the Sandbank Troup - we won it several years in a row in the early/mid 60's - also the scout camps at Rashfield and farther away at Benderloch. The tasks we undertook such ...Read more

A memory of Dunoon in 1963 by Allan Melville

I was evacuated to Hilton with my mother and grandmother at the outbreak of the WW2. My father was drafted into the army and was sent off to India and Burma when Japan entered the war. We lived in a terraced cottage in Eggington ...Read more

A memory of Hilton in 1940 by John Verdin

I have lots of fond memories of Cayton Bay as a child in the late 1960s/70s, the only place we knew and loved. Mam had a caravan there, following in her mam's footsteps. We loved to get there in the school ...Read more

A memory of Cayton Bay in 1970

My memory of Steventon started in 1947. For those who don't know about Steventon Camp, it was a disused army camp about 1 to 2 miles from Steventon village, on the Hanney road. (I see the storage depot is still ...Read more

A memory of Steventon in 1947 by Graham Davis

When I left High School, in Callander, Perthshire in 1947, I had no idea what to do in life. My father had been a Regular Army Officer, post WW1 and told me that if I enlisted in the ...Read more

A memory of Catterick Garrison in 1948 by Fionn Young

I was at Parkhall Camp from Aug 1970 - Aug 1972. I remember that pay day was on a Wednesday, after which the Post Office was the first port of call to get sweets and soft drinks. Every boy had a POSBIE account which 7 shillings per week was ...Read more

A memory of Oswestry by Steve Smith

It was 1958 and I had just left school at Walbottle Secondary. Me and my best pal Wes Coulthard (who I'm sad to say has since passed away) went on our first holiday together before starting down the Pit. We went with his parents Jimmy ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1958 by Jimmy Burrows

March 1954. I had been in the RE's 10 months when I first set eyes on the transit camp in Barton Stacey better known as Barton Stalag. I was sent there on transit for Korea along with another half a troop ship load of squadies. I ...Read more

A memory of Barton Stacey in 1954 by George Larbey

Around 1957 I was walking around High Street, enjoying a meander from my route home to Bradbury Lines when I saw the wife of an officer from the Army Camp, Lt Richard Vincent, in great distress with some ...Read more

A memory of Hereford in 1957 by Dylan Rivis