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Playing Cowboys and Indians, down the steps, and along the cliff, after coming out of the old Picture House on a Saturday afternoon, in the Second World War years.

A memory of Beccles in 1944 by mauricedunn1

I was born in March 1939 and lived in South Chingford 1939-66.  Frances Road 1940-47 and Underwood Road (Ropers Farm Estate) 1947-66. I loved Chingford and still do.  I regularly visit Chingford and was there ...Read more

A memory of South Chingford in 1940 by Robert Randall

I recall a huge thermometer erected on the clock tower, it was graduated in pounds sterling with a picture of a Spitfie at the top> We children, and of course the rest of the Wendover community subscribed as much as we could as often as ...Read more

A memory of Wendover in 1940 by Edward Pace

As a 10 year old and London evacuee Lerryn became home for a while. First being billeted at a retired naval captain's house by the river near the bridge. His name I believe was Capt. Pippit or similar. He owned a small ...Read more

A memory of Lerryn in 1940 by John Keene S

I was born in 1944 in my grandmother's house named 'Bloemfontein' at Higher Fraddon. She named the house after the capital of the Orange Free State of South Africa where she was born. Her father, my great-grandfather Parkyn, was a ...Read more

A memory of Higher Tolcarne in 1948 by Peter Crago Goodman

My mother asked me to go to the shops and get some bread at Barton's the bakers. I was just ten years old. 'But' she said, 'if a raid starts, don't hang about but run straight back home'. I often had to go to the shops, it ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1942 by William Pullum

Our family stayed in a caravan on Mrs Botts farm Tyn-y-Cae every other year during the 1940s-1950s.  It usually rained for most of the holiday but it was father's rule that we (himself, my older sister and myself) climbed the mountain ...Read more

A memory of Nefyn in 1940 by Shirley Hind

The Maritime Radio service of the Post Office had medium wave radio stations at Wick (Caithness) and Port Patrick (Dumfries & Galloway). As the Minches were a very busy area for fishermen from Fleetwood and Milford ...Read more

A memory of North Connel in 1947 by Graham Allister

This picture brings back childhood memories of the 1940s. Behind the wall on the left was a Quaker burial ground, a small grassy area on which one was free to stand upon.Opposite the wall were thatched cottages ...Read more

A memory of Andover in 1940 by Terry Clary

I was so pleased to come across a site talking about 'my' family village of Hessenford. I was also evacauated to Hessenford with my mum and spent my 1st birthday there. This was the first of many August holidays with my Great Aunt Dorah ...Read more

A memory of Hessenford in 1944 by Judy Sharp