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My husband recently took me on a trip down Memory Lane to Ash Vale. I am 76 years old and can remember everything so vividly, having been evacuated there during the war years. We lived in Balmoral Road and my mother became friendly ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale in 1945 by Maureen Thurston

I remember Darge's nursery very well because I was born at in 16 Tonbridge Road in 1947. There was also Corbin's builders merchants a little further down if I remember correctly. I believe Jimmy Corbin who wrote about his ...Read more

A memory of Maidstone in 1947 by Joan Bradford

I was born in my parents' house in The Mead, off Skinners Lane, in 1935. A year later my father became the proprietor of Ashtead Squash Rackets & Tennis Club. It was built by my grandfather, Edgar Littlewood, who built ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1940 by Jeremy Littlewood

I was born in Bridge House, which I understand was a nursing or maternity home at the time. Does anyone remember what it was called? My home was a prefab at Homer Cross, just off the Little Walden Road. The prefabs were grouped ...Read more

A memory of Saffron Walden in 1947

We - my pal David Murray and I were watching the night sky from opposite my house, 47 Gordon St. It was a nightly thing we did, watching for the return of aircraft to Dallochy Air Base. This night we watched a ...Read more

A memory of Portgordon in 1941 by Jaffray Geddes

My parents were Gerald and Phyllis Smith, we lived in Goldsel Road from about 1939/40, having moved from 'Crescent Gardens'. My father worked at Philip Ladds Nurseries, which was owned and run by his uncle Philip. My father ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1940 by Gerald Smith

My parents and brother were evacuated to Cullumpton and I was born in Tiverton Hospital in January 1941. We moved to West Monkton where my father managed the garage, my mother worked the petrol pumps and we all lived in the ...Read more

A memory of Taunton in 1942

I lived with my family, Mum, Martha Annie (nee Lumb), dad Arthur, sister Marie (now Richards) and brother Allen at the bottom end of Gas House Lane, now known as Gas Works Lane. We lived there until around 1951/2. I went to Elland ...Read more

A memory of Lockwood in 1941 by Jack Wright

My mother, Queenie Grounds, was the headmistress of Lynfield House School from 1946 until 1953, when we moved from Lynfield to The Homestead at the top of Sandringham Road, where it met Lynn Road. When ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1946 by Valerie Curtiss (Grounds)

Not sure of the year. My grandparents ran a fish and chip shop in Stanfree and a small holding; their names were Clara and Fred Mallinder. They had a son, Walter, and a daughter, Winny. They sold up in the late 1940's and bought a ...Read more

A memory of Stanfree in 1948 by Linda Geraghty