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Dad used to take me to help on the market stall he had right outside Woolworth's as he and mom had a Ladies & Children's Wear in Birmingham.  His cousin was Mayor at the time - hence the prime spot? I remember the Tilley ...Read more

A memory of Wednesbury in 1949 by Matt O.B.O Roy Anderson

I was in the first group of Lymm Grammar School students to move to Oughtrington Hall in 1945/46. Later, perhaps 1952/53, we established cricket at the school and played matches against other Cheshire Grammar Schools there - all ...Read more

A memory of Oughtrington in 1946 by Brian Deverall

I was born in the public house called Seven Stars Inn, Dinton. The date was the 5th November 1940. My godfather, then Doctor Ralph Gardiner, delivered me. He lived over the stile in the farm nearby. The pub was run by ...Read more

A memory of Dinton in 1940 by Dennis A Young

Just to the southeast of St Thomas a Becket church there are some lovely watermeadows reaching almost to the sea shore. A small beck, or stream, runs N-S down one side. One summer's day in 1942 or 43, I went on a ...Read more

A memory of Warblington in 1940 by Barry Mahony

My parents moved to the Bournemouth area at the end of WW2, and purchased the Clock Cafe property at 18 Whitefield Road, New Milton. There was a big clock mounted on a pole in the front yard. The Hants & Dorset buses used to treat ...Read more

A memory of New Milton in 1947 by Edward Williams

During WW2, my twin brother and I were born at this house on 2 Nov 1943 to Evelyn and Tom Williams. Dad built an Anderson bomb shelter in the back garden during the early years of the war, and was used by mother and children ...Read more

A memory of Acock's Green in 1943 by Edward Williams

This is where my mother and I lived with my Nan during WWII. We lived at number 234. I remember the Morrison shelter under the window, and that I used to climb up on top of it, switch the radio on and use it as a stage and dance and ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1944 by Beryl Chandler

I was born in Garden Village, Billacombe in 1944 and lived there until I was 8 years old. My memories are very strong of walking up Pleasure Hill to Sunday School at Pomphlet, walking to and from Goosewell Infant School and ...Read more

A memory of Billacombe in 1944 by Jeffrey Smith

It was a warm sunny morning and I was lying in bed in Minster Road. I heard a 'doodlebug' putter overhead, I heard the motor stop, silence... and then the explosion. I swear the blast lifted me off the bed - half a mile away! What I did ...Read more

A memory of Godalming in 1940 by Paul May

I was stationed at Melchbourne 1948/49 and used to visit the Temperance Cafe in the High Street. I would like to know more about Melchbourne House after it was handed back. When I was there it was in a dreadful state of repair. I would ...Read more

A memory of Rushden in 1949 by Kenneth Horton