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My memories start long before there was a Tithe Farm estate. In my time it was a farm and the footpath I used to go to school started there, it meandered al the way over the fields to Carcutt farm, where I lived all ...Read more

A memory of Houghton Regis in 1940 by Barbara Ercegovic

My parents met at a place called Thornypits and married during the war years.They were George and Pam Edwards, he was a local barber and came from Killarney, Southern Ireland, she came from Ditcheat, near Shepton Mallet ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1942 by Pam Mears

Country born and bred, I regularly stayed with aunts and uncles in Seven Kings and Barkingside My regular haunts were Valentine's 'Cranbrook' and Barkingkside Parks as well as the disused airfield known as Fairlop. The latter being a ...Read more

A memory of Ilford in 1949 by John Wicks

I have mainly unhappy memories of Marsh Court. During the Second World War it was used as a convalescent home for children and in 1944 I was sent there after being knocked down by a car in Tettenhall ...Read more

A memory of Marsh Court in 1944

I lived in Marfleet during the Second World War. One afternoon we heard a machine gun from the direction of Saltend. Not long after, a column of smoke arose. It was said at the ...Read more

A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1940 by Terry Mccomish

As I recall my mother was not a member of the local St. Nicholas Church Women's Union. She was a member of the Young Wives group. We lived in Mile Oak, I was born there in 1944. On occasion she would attend meetings in ...Read more

A memory of Portslade-By-Sea in 1940 by Bonny Cother

In a corner of Kent known with justification as the Garden of England stood the magnificent building known as Lee Priory. It saddens me so much that it no longer exists. In my childhood a Colonel Belcher resided there with his ...Read more

A memory of Littlebourne in 1940 by Gordon Tumber

I was evacuated to Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire to be with my aunt. Whilst there I sat an exam called "the 11 plus" which I passed and on the basis of which I was awarded a scholarship to Mitcham County Grammar School ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1941 by Douglas Tunbridge

I went to St. Botolph's School on The Hill from 1945 to 1950 with my friend Molly Freeman who lived a few doors away from me in York Road. Molly was in the year ahead of me but her brother Georgie was in my class. Recently ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1949 by Jean Hendy

The ship had struck an iceberg a hole yawned in its side. In came the water racing fast - a swirling rushing tide. Then up came Jack the captain, He cried "put fear to rout - I've blown a hole in the other side to let the water out".

A memory of Pott Shrigley in 1948 by Frank Thompson