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My name is Edward Hughes and at the tender age of 3/4 I was evacuated from my home town of Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire to Talsarnau during the second world war; staying around 2 years or so in an allocated home for ...Read more

A memory of Talsarnau in 1940 by Edward Hughes

I remember visiting the house with my mother (Phyllis) and father (Thomas) before we moved in in 1948 when I was 6 years old. There was myself, my twin sisters, another sister who had just ...Read more

A memory of Ivy Hatch in 1947 by Tony Durrant

This starts in 1938 when I was taken by my mother and ended up having tea with Bill Hogarth - Chinese tea, horrid. That September I started in Form One to be loudly proclaimed by Bill 'a dunderhead' as I could not understand Latin and ...Read more

A memory of Petersfield in 1940 by Brian Seabrook

I was born in 12 Vandyke Avenue, Keynsham in July 1939...revisiting neighbours many years later found the Avenue had changed its name to Gaston Avenue. My parents' good neighbours were; Mr and Mrs Vallis, their son Michael was the ...Read more

A memory of Keynsham in 1940 by Valerie Addicott

I was born on a row of terraced houses on Liverpool Street, between Ewart Street and Albion Street, Bright Street ran at the back of us. I attended Hope Street School from 1944 to July 1954 and my maiden name was Briggs. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1944

I was in Mrs Waddington's class at Wath Park Road from 1946 - 1950 and I have many happy memories of her. She was a great english teacher, always a happy smiling face, and she spoke of her daughter Betty many times. ...Read more

A memory of Wath Upon Dearne in 1948 by Jack Thirlwell

I was born in Holbrook in 1942 and lived there until 1973 when I married and moved to Loughborough. I continued to vist my parents and family in Holbrook weekly. Last year I moved to Oregon USA, to be near my son and his wife, but ...Read more

A memory of Holbrook in 1945 by Iris Bland

We moved to Lewisham in 1939 to 18 Crathorn Street which sadly is no longer there. Can remember vividly the war and having to walk the streets one night - my mum pushing my little sister in a pram - shelters all full. We had to ...Read more

A memory of Lewisham in 1940 by Joan Wiggins

I was born in 117 Blyth Mansions, Hornsey Rise, in 1942 I think they had just been built. I remember playing in the flats with so many children, I wonder where they are all now. We used to have fights with all the other flats, Hill ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1942 by Eileen Wright

George Dyson Fudge was in the RAF volunteer force and is recorded as having died in Little Stoke in 1941. Was he shot down? Did he crash his plane before he could land at one of the RAF bases nearby? Does anyone have any memories of such an incident or are there any records?

A memory of Littlestoke Manor in 1941 by Barbara Dyson