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I was born in Edgware in 1939 at 66 Warwick Avenue. I remember the war years 1939 to 1945... Anderson shelter, Morrison Shelter. I remember the first time I saw ny father, when he came home from the war in ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1945 by Barry Rudd

My father was one of the "flower sellers". Together with our neighbour - Mr. George Lee - the pair of them would bunch flowers from their respective gardens and take them up to The Black Swan on a Sunday ...Read more

A memory of Pease Pottage in 1947 by Eileen Cook

I grew up in and lived in Bensham for the first 26 years of my life, albeit the last 5 of those years were spent in the Merchant Navy as a sea-going engineer. My first school was Chester Place School which was across the road from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Noel Kelly

I was born in 1939 in the Chingford Mount Hospital. My late father Sam Shapiro (later Shepherd) owned the business Chingford Mount Radio near the corner of Chingford Mount and Larkswood road next door to one of the ...Read more

A memory of South Chingford in 1943 by Ron Shapiro

I was posted to the Hall after RAF basic training at West Kirby, where an Air Vice Marshall saw a mural illustrated map, another conscript (John Young) and I created, in the Education Hut. His ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1949 by Ronald Gilbert

I was born in 1940 in Gillingham Kent , my Dad used to work for Short's the aircraft builders. We moved to Redhill when I was a baby. One of my earliest memories was seeing the Olympic Torch runner coming down Redstone Hill in ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1948 by Bruce Cordy

My Grandmother ELLEN REAL was born in Axmouth 1875. Her grandmother was a Lace Maker and one of a few lace makers who contributed to making Queen Victoria's Wedding Veil.  My father (William Tom Sparkes) told me ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1947 by Kay Foulger

I was born at 28 Oak Street Garden City, in June 1947. My father was a miner in the Brit and in later years so was my brother Brian, my father was John David Evans but better known as "Dai Queenie". After 28 years of ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1947 by Beverley Evans

The lovely Thomas family took me in as an evacuee during the war years, they had a daughter, Myra or similar. Sundays were special, we visited grandparents up on a hill. Moria C.M. Sunday School presented me with a ...Read more

A memory of Kenfig Hill in 1945 by Lilian Haslehurst (Fry)

I was thinking of my early days in Tarpots and I had one of those memory flashes, I'm not sure exactly how old I was but it concerned my first "pocket money" sixpence a week as it turned out, the first issue was a Saturday and ...Read more

A memory of South Benfleet in 1946 by Colin Mackenzie