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My family, James and Isa Lewis, brother James and myself lived in a semi-detached villa on Monifieth Road, Broughty Ferry opposite the school, for a period before and after the Second World War commenced. ...Read more

A memory of Broughty Ferry in 1940 by Alison Stratton

Does anyone remember the Vane Dancing School in the late 1940s? I have some dance programmes from that time with very many names of all the dancers who took part in the shows. One name that does come to mind was June True who sometimes tap danced with my sister June Bannister.

A memory of Cheam in 1948 by Jim Bannister

Hi, I lived at Lingdale at 27 North Terrace which was the last row of terraced houses near the shale heaps which were deposited from the iron ore mine which was situated in Stanghow Lane. The distance between the houses and the shale ...Read more

A memory of Lingdale in 1940 by George Searle

NO 4 THE GAP My memory of Marcham started in 1946-7. My grandmother, Lydia Lawrence, used to live at no 4 The Gap. She was born in Long Wittemham, then she married ...Read more

A memory of Marcham in 1946 by Graham Davis

I lived in Southend Road from 1940 till 1947 then moved to Kent. My grandparents lived at 16 Charnwood Gardens. I lived with my mother and older brother Byron, my father was away at war and I never saw him until 1945. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1940 by Dereck Hobson

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 Grandfather had a riding school and livery stable just off Mathew Bank near to Jesmond Dene, I was born in Newcastle not far from the Blue House on the North Road in 1936 but my family moved to Richmond Yorkshire when I ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1947 by Bill Mather

I was born at number 3 North Street in 1942. I was in my mothers arms and can remember Italian prisoners of war marching up to the camp on the Beamsley side of the River Wharfe and hiding on a shelf under the stairs whilst a German ...Read more

A memory of Addingham in 1942 by Colin Lister

You may like to know that I today attended the funeral of the chatelaine of The Manor, Lady Valerie Guinness. After the war my father Peter bought the rectory at Sculthorpe about three miles from East Barsham and the ...Read more

A memory of East Barsham in 1946 by John Labouchere

as a child growing up in cross street which was just off new st i remember there being a laundry opposite my home and sid perks coal yard was this the bag wash??

A memory of Wednesfield in 1949 by Roy Horden