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I was born in Recreation Close - a tiny 1 bedroom maisonette at the bottom of Wide Way. My Grandparents lived in Greenwood Road just around the corner. In June 1944, during the Second World War, a doodle bug exploded on the ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1940 by Patricia Sullivan

My uncle, the late William John Wilcox, was the proprietor of the 'Grapevine' from the mid 1930s through to the early 1960s. I remember it as a truly old fashioned 'pub' complete with a 'games room' with darts, shove ...Read more

A memory of Meare in 1940 by Barrie R Collins

My school was one of the first to go to Dukeshouse Wood Camp School just outside Hexham. This was in November 1945 shortly after the Second World War with the lads from  Gateshead at Alexandra Road school. ...Read more

A memory of Hexham in 1945 by Les May

I remember the huts in Thames Rd - I lived in No.14, adjacent to the allotments from birth until I was 5 yrs old. Then moved to 46 Howard Rd Barking between Abbey Rd and Gascoigne Rd great memories of both homes. Vivid memories of ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1949 by Graham Smith(Mancey)

My parents took over The Chocolate Box, a little general store which sold mostly sweets in 1946. I lived there in the old thatched cottage and the attached house, which was called the new house, as ...Read more

A memory of Waterbeach in 1946 by Carole Oddy Forhan

Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

I am Barking born and bred on 25.04.1921 and lived in Fanshaw Avenue which was not far from Eastbury House. I have now reached the age of 92 and would like to share a memory which until very recently I kept to ...Read more

A memory of Barking in 1940 by Winifred Lines

Bristol's High Street scene of many strirring events in Bristol's history the heart of the city was destroyed and lost forever in 1940. As a city with docks and industry at its heart, Bristol was a natural ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Paul Townsend

I was born in 1940, and came home from India with my parents (military family) in 1943. We stayed at Coldrenick House and I remember being introduced to Mrs. Trelawney and being invited to tea with her a couple of times. I ...Read more

A memory of Menheniot in 1943 by Anne Colling

I was at the school from 1945 to 1947. Names which spring to mind, on the spur of the moment, are Shirley Anne Blyth, Maitland Bond, Penelope Bovill, Hilary Cunningham, Anne Elliot, Faith Fabian, Jennifer Jeffries, Brigid ...Read more

A memory of Laleham in 1945 by Lilian Johnson