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I remember the north side of the London road much as has been described by others with some differences, the last shop before the garage was Jones the butchers, owned by Mr Jones and run by his three sons, Roy, Owen and the third one ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1945 by Colin Mackenzie

Tarrymount is/was a farm of about 75 acres, situated in the Braes of Enzie. My grandfather, Robert Urquhart, was Grieve on the farm. In April 1941 a German aircraft dropped a bomb which exploded  on the farmland. A ...Read more

A memory of Clochan in 1930 by R Urquhart

The pub had only recently been rebuilt, the original haveing been flattened by an aerial mine in 1941, which also damaged St Saviour's, parts of which were still awiting repair. Until the rebuild it was an bomb site and used to play there. The ...Read more

A memory of Oxton by Tim Baker

Last year, as part of a two month trip from New Zealand, in mid September, my wife and I made a pilgrimage to Walkern, the place of my paternal ancestors. During the war I was taken by my mother and grandfather to Clay End, near ...Read more

A memory of Walkern in 1943 by Michael Bennett

I was born and brought up in Combe, born in Slate Cottages, the second one from the end as you go past, my parents also lived in the end one. I spent most of my young life living at Rights Farm, until I got married and left to live ...Read more

A memory of Combe in 1958 by Alan Racey

I was born in Blenheim Gardens in 1964 at my parents' house. I have great memories from the Tuffty Club through to starting school at the Primary in Aveley. Teachers that come to mind were Mrs Sykes and Mrs Southgate. The sports ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by Andrea New

Hallo My husband Ken lived in Berkeley Avenue from about 1936 to 1960, with a couple of years off doing National Service. He tells me he cannot remember there being anything but a petrol station at the end of the road, but with the ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1940 by Sylvia Stalder

I was born at the Semon Emergency Maternity Hospital in 1943 even though my parents lived in Bradford at the time. I have always assumed this was because of the threat of bombing during the war, though I have never ...Read more

A memory of Ilkley in 1943

My mother was Ellen Rosekilly, she was born at Malton Colliery in May 1906, she was one of a large family. Her brothers worked down the pit. One by one they left and moved on. My Aunt Louisa continued to live ...Read more

A memory of Malton in 1944 by Doreen Brunton

My mother, at the tender age of 17, was taken to Bromley-by-Bow Hospital in the midst of the London blitz to have her first child. She never saw her baby girl, was told she had died and everyone was to be evacuated to Scotland ...Read more

A memory of Bromley by Linda Wilkins