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Many memories of playing at Priest Cove swimming pool and bent pin fishing as a 6 year old evacuee. I must have explored every nook and cranny around the headland

A memory of St Just in 1940 by Alec Smith

As a 6 year old I was deposited with the Stevens family -Butchers at No 16-- this is on the right of the street opposite the white building

A memory of St Just in 1940 by Alec Smith

I lived at the Navy station Nells Point around 1943 to 1947. I went to school at Clive road and attended sunday school at st Johns. I remember the army camp,and at the end of the war the squatters moved in the huts.I allso ...Read more

A memory of Barry Island in 1943 by Patricia Perring

From early 1920's until the late 1970's my husband's family occupied homes in Cheriton. At first in Whitby Road, then for many years at 129 Cheriton High Street, next to their good friends the Priestleys. Names ...Read more

A memory of Cheriton in 1940 by Olivia R S

My Mum Ivy Goodger was Born at 43 Fish street in 1942 Along with her Twin sister Patrica My Grandparents Rose & Alf Goodger moved from Shoreditch London to Redbourn during world war two. And ...Read more

A memory of Redbourn in 1942 by Danny Allen

Church Road - there was a row of old ricketty cottages where my grandparents, Thomas and Alice Wilkinson lived. Next door to them was an old lady always dressed in a long black skirt and a hat. She talked to herself and we ...Read more

A memory of Moreton in 1940 by First Name Last Name

I  lived in St Austell as a child but my Uncle Ewart and Aunt Ruby farmed at Trescoll Farm, Lockengate. From a very early age I spent every holiday with them and although only four or five years old at the time, I remember ...Read more

A memory of Lockengate in 1940 by Peter Marks

My Dad, Sid Brooks was the rural village police constable (P.c.200) for Cropwell Butler, Cropwell Bishop and Tythby We, Mum (Dorothy) and my younger brother Mick lived in the Police House on Radcliffe Road, ...Read more

A memory of Cropwell Butler in 1940 by peterb6136

I was four when my family moved from London to Manage the Rose and Crown in 1940. The Rose and Crown was then about four hundred and fifty years old. After six months there was a devastating fire which destroyed the whole of ...Read more

A memory of Ashbury in 1940 by First Name Last Name

My Mother owned the Kings Head and i worked in the reastaurant with her she done all home baking and had Eton College lads and there familys eating there,also a great trade was the Army lads from both barracks,I married one in 1956,we ...Read more

A memory of Windsor in 1948 by Dorothy Wade