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Avonmouth Docks And Bocm Silcocks

In 1977 I finished a Teacher Training Course at Redland College in Bristol. I was in need of a temporary job and was to find one in Avonmouth Docks where BOCM Silcocks (who had produced animal feed from grain and ...Read more

A memory of Avonmouth by kevin.bettany

Monks/ Mac Donald

My mom lived in ,14 Barnet street, with her parents George and Annie Monks. George voluntary joined the army at 40 years old, and served in Norway. My mom was born in 38. My mom Dorothy moved to Canada in 81 with our family. ...Read more

A memory of Edge Hill

Oak Bank School, Seal.

My stepfather, Mr John Few, was at Oak Bank between 1942 and 1947. He was a teenager whose father was the head gardener billeted at the lodge alongside the golf course. John and his older brother Eric worked at the school. John's jobs ...Read more

A memory of Seal by g.boylan

Early Days

Born in 1939, lived in Lansdowne Grove, House destroyed by German bomb I was buried in rubble. Moved away to Blackpool returned to Heron Road Willesden 1947. Made very few friends, Names remembered are Owen family, Syd West Jack Murgatroyd, ...Read more

A memory of Willesden by jmjmwillis

War Time Tooting

Although I was born in Aldis St in 1934 we moved to Morden when I was 2 months old, but I do have fond memories of Tooting. During the war we used to sleep on the Underground platform at Tooting Broadway or Balham. One night a bomb ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Rita Ford

Growing Up With The Troubles

I was lucky in that I lived in an area that was not often touched by the violence that was going on in Northern Ireland at the time, but a telephone conversation with my mum in recent days brought back memories of life in ...Read more

A memory of Belfast in 1970 by Isobel Buck

A Fine Summers Evening Shattered

Sunday 25th of June 1944. A lovely summers day but at 9 o'clock in the evening the air raid siren sounded and a few minutes later a V1 flying bomb came roaring over the housetops, apparently going to miss us - but ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1944 by John Grant

Peckham 1958 To Date

My mother and her family lived in Cronin Road until bombed out in 1940. Mum moved back there in 1953 when she married dad, an myself and my 3 sisters were all born there. We moved in 1963 when my baby sister was only 13 days old ...Read more

A memory of Peckham by Carol Pyle

Police Station

I have only just found this site. I was born in 1944 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, my Mom was sent there as bombs were falling still in the London area and Woodford was still getting there fair share. We lived in an alleyway ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1947 by Brian Staines

Bombing In Petts Wood

The night our ceiling fell in, is vivid in my memory, I lived in Fieldway, Petts Wood which backed on to Eastbury Avenue, on the night of the bombing a bomb fell in Eastbury Avenue, my parents, myself, brother, sister ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood in 1940 by Janet Davidson Nee Marshal

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