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At a wild guess I will say about 1940-50s, we had a caravan at Knights Farm, Churt, loved it there, often went for walks along the country lanes or bike rides through the ford just near the farm. Hope one day I can return ...Read more

A memory of Churt in 1940 by Adele Pentony Graham

I was born at the Tinmill Cottages, I remember there were two. My mum was called Dorothy Roebuck. I remember the well where we got our water and the toilet near the river. I remember going through the woods and the stepping stones, ...Read more

A memory of Deepcar in 1947 by David Broomhead

I remember Miss Turnbull very well. She was the school nurse and assistant matron when Mrs Bowles was absent. She lived in a wing of the castle and attached to her flat was a two bedded room where you were looked after, fed, ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1948 by Malcolm Cave

Did anyone attend the 'old' Beauclerc School in Sunbury-on-Thames? I was there in the 1940s when Miss Clara Garlick was the headmistress and Miss Walters was the Principal. There was a beautiful weeping willow in ...Read more

A memory of Sunbury in 1940 by Pauline Hughes

I was born in 1946 and spent the first 3 years living in a curved un-insulated "nissen" hut next to the gunsight in Adel. We then moved to 71 Raynel Way in 1949. I attended Cookridge School and used to walk up ...Read more

A memory of Cookridge in 1949 by Brian Jarvis

My mother was a niece of Donald Stewart (her father "Charles Stewart's" brother) She remembers being driven in his treasured Rolls Royce when she was a child.

A memory of Ellon in 1940

Crofton Hall has wonderful memories for me, because that is where I started school. The school was heated by a fire in the winter. We were allowed to play in the open spaces of the grounds, amongst the trees, and wild flowers. ...Read more

A memory of Crofton in 1945 by Eileen Neill

My name is Dilys Bandtock nee Williams, what a shock I got this morning while browsing my computer to come across this site Wow! Explore my past, gee I was born here in 1938 in Raynes Cottages, Llysfaen Station in the ...Read more

A memory of Llanddulas in 1943 by Dilys Bandtock Nee Williams

I was born in 1940 at the shop at the top of Shillingstone Rd, the Corner Stores owned by my father Guy Moon. One of my first memories is a tank pushing out the corner of the shop wall, and of the G.I's giving us chewing gum, also ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1940 by David Moon

I have found this same photo in the January 17 1940 edition of The Motor magazine, here it is described as "Building built to protect building" and I quote thus: There is a quaint building - which must be the only one of its ...Read more

A memory of Perranporth in 1940 by Bailar Coruna