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Every year we set off from York for a two week holiday at Thornwick Bay. We used to travel by bus, and I well remember the bus always used to breakdown at the top of Garrowby Hill. Everyone had to get off the bus and ...Read more

A memory of Thornwick Bay in 1956 by R Clive Ankers

My name is Tom Smith. I was born in 17 Gervis Rd, Collyhurst Flats in August 1945. My dad was Jack Smith and my mam was Ada; there were 6 kids, John, Mary, James, (me) Andrew, and Arthur. To me the flats ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1945 by Tom Smith

My father, John, was a doctor at his surgery/house, Corporation Road and I and my brother John plus mother and father were in the shelter when the mine was dropped. I remember a discussion later about loss of panel patients (Lysaghts and ...Read more

A memory of Newport in 1940 by Michael Savage

I'm reading a book. Came upon the name Christopher Wren (astronomer around 1683). Suddenly it slipped into my mind the combination Wrens Warren Camp and via google came upon this site. I'm Dutch, survived the winter of ...Read more

A memory of Colemans Hatch in 1945 by Antoon Kooij

From the year I was born (1968) until the mid nineties I was brought up in Ealing Village, just off Hanger Lane. I have many fond memories of doing such things as building camps behind the tennis courts or in the White house, riding my ...Read more

A memory of Ealing by Alex Breski

All those names, so familiar, brings faces from the past like it was yesterday, happy days we took for granted,not realising how lucky we were having such a close group of friends, who looked out for each other ...Read more

A memory of Crook by Mary Harker/Bainbridge

My parents have lived in 34 Charlbury Road since 1967 and I have visited them often over the years, although I have not lived in Shrivenham for any length of time since 1972. I can remember playing in the fields and making ...Read more

A memory of Shrivenham in 1967 by Julia Jones

It was lovely to find this page as I have looking for info on the Old Denes holiday camp for some time now. We first went there in 1977 in our Monza touring caravan and enjoyed a few holidays there. It was kevin that taught ...Read more

A memory of Kessingland in 1977 by Andrew Talbot

Jack & Unice Spencer were my grandparents, they owned the boats on Pickmere Lake. My life after the war was idillic when living with them, thousands flocked from Salford & Manchester to camp, fish and row my ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere in 1953 by John Bailey

The Anson family arrived at Strensall in 1957. My father was at the camp as a 'skill at arms' instructor until 1959 attached to the K.O.Y.L.I. I can remember the first day at school in Strensall village.I caught the bus which cost ...Read more

A memory of Strensall in 1957 by Kathryn Anson