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I used to attend Middle Park School way back in 1943. I recall we used to have to write the date in the top right-hand corner of our exercise books and I distinctly remember the year. The war was still on. I'd probably ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1943 by Tom Ware

I lived in Jesmond Terrace at No.41. I had been taken to the airraid shelter and was back to sleep when a bomb hit No.55. It did not explode and we were all rushed to the underground shelter at the end of Victoria Terrace and Trewitt ...Read more

A memory of Whitley Bay by Derek Nicholson

Born in Kilburn Square in the early 30's we moved to Iverson Road and were there during the war. I used to act as messenger for the ARP who used the DOB club in Maygrove Road as their base and went to Beckford ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn by Len Parker

I remember the passenger ferry terminal well during the late 1940's. I lived with my family in Wakefield Street which was a ten minute walk away with my little legs - I was 4 or 5 at the time! We had so much freedom in those ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1948 by Keith Henry

My mother (maiden name Joan Patrica Hubbard) is in her early 90s now and often recalls her childhood and early memories of Grimsby. She tells me of a picture with her father John (Jack) ...Read more

A memory of Cleethorpes in 1900

I was born in Dorset in 1940, my mother living there as an army wife. My name then was Gorringe. We returned to my grandmother's house in Freshwater Road at the end of the war. We visited Tooting many times during the war, and I ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1945 by Jacqueline Follett

I lived in Roydon Street in the late 40's and early 50's. The names I remember are the Kirbys, the Mulhollands and Vicky Robbins who was the same age as me. Both my parents were born in Battersea, my dad's family from the Sheepcote ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1950

The Cabin in Graham Road was a school boy's (and girl's) dream! At the front of the shop, behind the counter, was an array of jars of sweets, sold by the quarter (lb) and every other piece of confectionary or chocolate you could name: ...Read more

A memory of Wealdstone in 1960

In September 1940 my wife, now 82 yrs, was bombed in Silvertown, East London docks. Her familyof 8 were taken to a scouts hut in Theydon Bois, Essex. From there they were moved to Budworth Hall, Ongar, Essex. then they were ...Read more

A memory of Theydon Bois in 1940

I remember Mrs Harris a severe teacher, and the Miss Hubbards (ginger). The pupils were Bernard Lewis and sisters Christine, Barbara and Noel. Also Billy Miles, Arthur Jones, Freda Watkins, Marjorie and Shelia Lewis, Mair ...Read more

A memory of Coed-y-paen by John Hanner