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My father was stationed at Bassingbourn 1942-1945. Mother was a nurse in England during WW2 and I was born in England in 1945. We lived in Royston at 14 Green Street. My mother and myself came to the US in 1947. I ...Read more

A memory of Royston in 1940 by Ian Lamb, Sr.

I had to laugh when I read your comments on broken biscuits. I remember standing in the queue at the Home & Colonial with my mum when a woman in front of us said, "a pound of broken biscuits please love". "No broken biscuits ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1953 by Ken Everley

I was stationed at RAF Thornaby from March 1954 until early 1957 when I was promoted and posted to RAF North Luffenhan in Rutland in preparation for the Suez campaign, which never came to be. Sadly, that air base ...Read more

A memory of Thornaby-on-Tees in 1954

I was born in 1946 and went to St Ignatius Infants and Junior school and then on to Kenyngton Manor sec school. I worked at Vienna bakeries along with the Parnell brothers who owned the bakery. I was also a ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury by Geoff Mertens

Memories -mrs roberts miss cook and her chow dog during the early war years they were second mothers to us all,village people were kind and helpfull ,mr pond the water bailiff gave me all the fishing tackle i needed ...Read more

A memory of Holdenhurst in 1930 by William Roland Pye

I fell in love with Mousehole back in 1970 when I came across it quite by accident. My girlfriend and I were staying at a B&B called LowLee which is positioned just outside Newlyn on the clifftop overlooking ...Read more

A memory of Mousehole in 1970 by Christopher Bowers

Our school, Park Modern Secondary, was situated in Barking Essex just outside of the east end of London. Each year, we had school camp at Sweets farm on the top of Dundry Hill, where we would camp for two weeks. We were told repeatedly ...Read more

A memory of Dundry in 1963 by Christopher Bowers

My girlfriend, Edna Thorley, and I were in the queue at the Odeon cinema in Crewe, she was on leave from the ATS. As we waited the subject of marriage came up; no I didn't go down on one knee. I think I said something like, ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1945 by Ken Wood

I remember the model shop in the Grove. There was a model 00 gauge train that went round when you placed a penny in the slot. When you were in the shop you could see the train come in and go around the track under the glass ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1958 by Nick Beard

I lived in a sweetshop come cafe on Top Dartford Road junction with Plantation Road the dustmen the funeral men and the local policeman Paddy Mccreary all came to our cafe they were a great crowd of men. Before that we bought a ...Read more

A memory of Hextable in 1958 by Jackie Payne