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Memories

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Pram Race

I was 10 years old when I entered the pram race. Myself and two other neighbours entered as a junior team. I was dressed up as a baby and the two other lads were dressed as mom and dad. The race went round Wooton Wawen. It started ...Read more

A memory of Henley-in-Arden in 1981 by Julie Draper

Church Path, Mitcham And The People That Lived There

I was born in Collierswood Maternity Home, a very short time before it was bombed during the Second World War. The year was 1944. My family being homeless were housed in requisitioned properties in ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1944 by James Bonser

100 Melody Road. Wandsworth S.W.18

In 1943/4 My mother, brother and myself were bombed out of our home in Summerly Street. In that house we had a Morrison shelter and the night the bomb hit, a few houses away from our house, it affected our shelter ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by jcunife

Phil Munton

Hi, I've recently discovered this while doing research on a book I am writing and was interested to hear how many people from Selsdon remember their childhood and, in most cases, enjoyed the village as I knew it as a good place to grow ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by philmunton48

Un Expoded Bomb In The Back Garden!

My family and I have lived at 48 Streatham Common North for the last 30 years. Next door to me at one time lived an elderly spinster who often regaled me with stories. She particularly loved to talk about her ...Read more

A memory of Streatham by teresatunstall1

Tottenham Lane 1957 65

I was born in Muswell Hill Cottage Hospital in 1957. We lived at the off licence in Tottenham lane opposite the police station....Victoria wine. I went to Rolkesly Infant and Junior and had best friend Robert in the infant ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey by Jo Oliphant Hope

Dear Old Nunhead

I was born in nunhead in 1939,lived in barset road,nunhead,i survived the bombing years,was avacuated for a while,then returned to hide in the Anderson shelter in our back garden,went to holidale road school,then on to Peckham rye ...Read more

A memory of Nunhead by Peter Mills

Bordon County Junior School Budds Lane

Teachers in the 1970s Mr Pearson - an elderly man whose dentures moved around in his mouth when he spoke. He was great fun and shared his family cinefilms with us during the lessons. It was great fun when he ...Read more

A memory of Bordon by D Toovey

Two Special Places.

Your picture of the Novi Sad Bridge in Norwich provoked many memories. Firstly it is an extremely good replica of the bridge. I've been over it many times and remember seeing it on tv the day it was bombed. Everyone over there ...Read more

A memory of Norwich by stripeyrainbow1

Grandma's Shop

I was born Nov 5, 1939 at 81 Star Lane, the home of my maternal grandparents, James and Anne Maria Bullock. My mother, Annie Grace Bullock, was the youngest of six children. She married my father, Henry George Hooper, in 1935 at ...Read more

A memory of Canning Town by Derek Hooper

Captions

232 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Cromer, High Street C1955

It has hardly changed today, and the original buildings are still intact; they escaped bomb damage during the Second World War.

Caption For Ramsgate, Granville Hotel, Victoria Parade 1901

It was used as a Canadian hospital in the First World War, and during the Second World War, in November 1940, it was bombed, and has never recovered its former 'sparkle'.

Caption For Sherborne, Kings School Quadrangle 1891

It was here that four bombs fell during the Second World War.

Caption For Chadderton, Library C1955

Having been bombed out of their works at Mitcham, Surrey, A C Cossor Ltd were relocated to Chadderton; they were housed in the old Wren Mill which had been converted into a government Shadow factory.

Caption For Cheam, Cheam Park House 1928

The house was severely damaged by a V1 flying bomb which fell in these well-kept grounds on 21 July 1944, leaving a crater measuring 8 x 14 feet, and the building was subsequently demolished.

Caption For Sturry, Street And Post Office 1899

A village situated at a crossing of the River Stour, Sturry suffered badly from bomb damage in the Second World War.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street 2003

For many people around the world, the name 'Warrington' is associated with a terrible atrocity when a bomb blew up causing the death of two young children and maiming many others one Saturday morning in

Caption For Crewe, Christ Church C1950

On seeing the ruined shell of this church today, the visitor may well get the immediate impression that it must have suffered from bombing during the war; but in fact the nave was demolished in 1977

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, Market Place C1955

Note echoes of wartime in 'The Bombed Shop'.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

He remembered: 'When I started Jack Hardy was a tool setter when they bombed X block, blowing the roof off.

Caption For London, St Paul's Cathedral From Fleet Street C1950

The bombed corner on the right is now occupied by an office block, with Waterstone's bookshop on the ground floor.

Caption For Rye, Watchbell Street 1901

The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral 1897

The window that you can see to the left of the lamp-post now has modern stained glass in it, in wonderful reds and oranges, to depict the flames of the bombing; it was designed as a tribute to the Cathedral

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

Caption For York, Guildhall 1885

The building was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, during one of the retaliatory raids for the RAF's destruction of the ancient city of Lubeck.

Caption For Coventry, The Cathedral C1965

When Basil Spence designed Coventry's new cathedral, he incorporated the bombed ruins of the old St Michael's into the modern building; the old church became the new cathedral's vestibule.

Caption For Hampstead, Jack Straw's Castle C1955

The photograph shows what remained after the pub was badly damaged by Second World War bombing.

Caption For Hailsham, The Church 1900

This view, from the south east near Vicarage Road, shows a heavily Victorianised medieval church; it further suffered in 1943 when a bomb blast destroyed all its stained glass.

Caption For Lyme Regis, From West 1890

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

Caption For Manchester, The Assize Court 1886

The building was bombed during the Second World War and could not be saved.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour C1955

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Caption For Masham, Market Place 1908

A stray German bomb fell here in 1941 after a raid on Teesside, and completely destroyed the White Bear Inn.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Market 1891

It was badly damaged by bombing in the Second World War.