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Hi all. My brother and I were evacuated to Skipton in late 1941 from London. As we all sat on the floor in some large hall in Skipton after out trip up from London, people were walking ...Read more

A memory of Broughton in 1941 by Robert Munn

Lived in Eltham from 1940, when Dad was in Artillery, and off to France, came back injured from Dunkirk, but alive, just ! Homes were, Rancliffe Gdns, Milburn Gdns, and Meadowside. Lovely road with unrestricted views across what is now ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham in 1940 by Peter Russell

1970s, I see Steve Boughey like a dolphin in the water, Mr Bickley telling you off for bombing, Mrs Holland taking my basket of clothes off me. Girls from school looking great. Big football match on the grass area. My ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1972 by Lee Roberts

I lived at 68 Albert Road from about 1953 until they knocked the street down and we all moved up to the flats at the top of the road. It was a great place to be a kid, we still had the bomb site at the back of the gardens in between ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn

I was born 1942 in a wool shop at 300 London Rpad, grew up in Stakes Wood, granny tree, blue bell woods etc. Idylllic childhood . I went to Stakes Hill Rpad primary school 1947 to 1953, Mrs Nelson my teacher. Elsie Patterson ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1949 by Nigel Butlin

I lived in 31 Wycliffe Road just down from where the chimney sweep kept his soot. A number of films were shot in the "courts" between the streets Beaufoy Road and Bassnett Road. I moved in 1965 aged 11 not long after the area was ...Read more

A memory of Battersea by Lynn Wassall (Nee Barney)

My parents, sister Barbara and me, Brian, moved into 14 Oakleigh Gardens in 1938. Shortly afterwards Barbara and me enrolled at Warren Road School (the year it opened). Everything was perfect until 1939 when the Second World ...Read more

A memory of Orpington in 1930 by Brian Lipscomb

My sister and I were evacuated to Wickford in 1940, I was just over 5 years old and my sister 11 years old. We came from the east end of London. We moved into a bungalow with an elderly lady called Mrs Walker, there was also a ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1940 by Leonard Askew

It is with found memories of growing up in the war years that I look back on my time in Palmers Green.   We had moved from Tottenham in 1940 when I was 6 years old into the shop and house opposite the Fox Lane Almshouses. My ...Read more

A memory of Palmers Green in 1941

I was sent by my mother as an evacuee to stay with her sister Lilian to get away from the bombs dropping over Wimbledon during the war. My Uncle Wilf and Aunt Lill lived above the Tylers Shoe Shop in Langold. Uncle Wilf (Scotney) was the ...Read more

A memory of Langold in 1942 by Jacqueline Hindley