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House Beautiful was a convalescent home run by the Sunday School Union. I was sent there in April 1942 and my sister Anna went in Oct. 1942 from Derbyshire. We were aged 8 and 4. My grandfather knew the matron and she allowed us ...Read more

A memory of Bournemouth in 1940 by Helen Meakin

It was during the summer of 1944 that my mother recieved notice of my compulsary introduction into the British education system. Much against my will I was dragged kicking and screaming to the Sydney Road Infant ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1944 by Frank Mowforth

My Mum and Gran came to Godstone with me as a baby, we moved from Croydon because of the Second World War. My granddad, Alfred Sreatfield, now dead, had helped to build 13 Salisbury Road. I was christened at St Nicholas ...Read more

A memory of Godstone in 1944 by Rosemary Jacobs

I was moved to New Haw in1941 as a small boy, after my mother and I had been sent to several other locations during the early part of the Second World War, my father working in munitions. We lived in Holly Avenue, and after New Haw ...Read more

A memory of New Haw in 1941 by Michael Isaacs

I have mentioned in passing that Intake did not have the same panache as say Balby, Hexthorpe or Armthorpe in places of entertainment but it did provide some wide open spaces to play in. Over the Armthorpe Road ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1946 by Frank Mowforth

After the Second World War my parents opened a shop at 25 Pickford Lane under the name J T Daborn. It was a tobacconist,toy and sweet shop. They opened in 1947 and traded there until retirement in the early 1970s. Customers might ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1949 by John Daborn

During the Second World War I was sometimes taken by my mother to stay with her grandmother, Mrs Bevis, at the house called Rivermead, about 100 yards downhill from the church, by a sharp bend to the left. Mrs Bevis must have rented ...Read more

A memory of Sandhurst in 1942 by Bevis Lake

Our family lived in Palmerston Avenue, and then moved to Palmerston Drive (both named after Lord Palmerston). One of my most significant memories of life in Palmerston Drive was when people living in the whole street had ...Read more

A memory of Litherland in 1940 by Reg Nicholson

I grew up in Reynolds Drive,Queensbury. In those days few cars littered the road so it was quite safe to play in. I remember my lovely neighbours and in particular Mrs Sparrow and her son Clive, he and I were inseparable. My first ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1943 by Sylvia Mc Math(Nee Drew)

My name is Lynda Mawdsley, I was born in 1949 at 94 Oxford Street, Old Trafford. I am 1 of 7 siblings, my father's name was Stanley and my mother's name was Irene. I can still remember what the prefab looked like and some of the neighbours ...Read more

A memory of Old Langho in 1949 by Lynda Mawdsley