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Born in 1939 and living in Banstead Road during the war, I have many memories of Purley, Croydon and Coulsdon. An alleyway ran from the High Street to the station, where I used to meet my father in the evenings from the ...Read more

A memory of Purley in 1940 by Frances Casey

I was born in Portsmouth in 1933. My family and I lived first in Lyndhurst Road - about which I don't recall too much - then later in Merrivale Road. I remember very clearly where Merrivale joined ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth by Brian Veall

The family moved from Reay in Caithness to Sorbie in 1932 - I was 2 years old and had a sister who was 12 years old and a brother, 10 years old, so there was a huge difference in ages and I was brought up ...Read more

A memory of Sorbie in 1930 by Fionn Young

I was in the Sanatorium, the children's section, aged seven in 1949 suffering from TB, my mother was sent there the following year and stayed in the woman's section, also with TB, and unfortunately she died there after just a ...Read more

A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1949 by Geoff Merritt

I attended this school in September of 1953 until December 1954, when I left and went to Salisbury College of Further Education. My father was in the army and we came back from Germany in July 1953 to live in ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth in 1953 by Diane Kerwin

This is going back a long way, but my great-great-grandfather, George Caddy, was born in Great Ellingham in 1776. He was one of 8 children of William and Elizabeth (nee Hinsby). His son, John Thomas Caddy, left for London sometime ...Read more

A memory of Great Ellingham by Angela Haddrill

I was in St Claire's Orphanage with my two sisters after my father died in 1945. The Rev Mother Sister Phillomina had been a childhood friend of my mother's. This fact did not give us any added privileges. I ...Read more

A memory of Pantasaph in 1948 by Dora Murphy

I used to visit my aunt & uncle who lived in this - as it was known to me - the posh area of Thornton Heath: it was even pronounced differently - where I lived we invariably but a "mate" on the end of everything. Anyway ...Read more

A memory of Thornton Heath by Peter Lake

I went to a boarding school just ouside Seaford, called East Quinton. They were happy days as we used to walk from the back of the school to play in the trenches. I often wonder if they are still there.

A memory of Seaford in 1952 by Gloria Moat

We used to live at number 20 (next to the junior school), there was myself, Geoff, Geraldine, Liz my siblings and my mum and dad, my dad was called Kenneth Douglas and was a WW2 warrant officer, my ...Read more

A memory of Deepcut in 1955 by Alan Douglas