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I lived in Medway Road from 1934-1956. I also remember the doodle bugs (as did Gordon Savage, I remember him), the dockyard heavy guns, and school. I was due to start school on the day war started and finally went to ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1940 by Joan Lemar

My memory is of living in the farm house at Dunkeswell Abbey with Mrs Trenchard when I was evacuated from London during the second world war. I used to walk to the school in Hemyock picking strawberries ...Read more

A memory of Upottery in 1942 by Patricia Attfield

I was born in Phylis Avenue, Motsper Park in 1943 and went to Bushy Shool in 1948. The first thing is that it was just after the war and there were NO CARS! The steets were empty and the only person that had a car ...Read more

A memory of Raynes Park in 1948 by Colin Plummer

My Grandparents lived at 1 Manor Way. In 1946 my father returned from Canada to find that I was a few months old. He had returned from the war in April 1945, however he had to return to Canada in 1946 to demob. When he returned to ...Read more

A memory of Woodmansterne in 1946 by Barry Armstrong

Another sad memory of the home was being shod in ill fitting shoes which has left me with deformed feet, especially my twisted toes which makes it embarrassing for me to be seen for example in a swimming pool or even ...Read more

A memory of Addlestone in 1948 by Ronald Strange

This photo is of what was Allhallows School Rousdon, after the house was sold by the PEEK family, of Peek Frean biscuit fame in about 1935 I believe. I went to Allhallows in 1944, and left in 1948 but my memories of the ...Read more

A memory of Rousdon in 1940 by David Gaffyne

I don't remember, but I was born at this nursing home. I was the first child of Mavis and Ed Papworth, and I was born on 31st May, 1949. My brother Frank was also born at this nursing home 2 years and 9 months later. Both my brother ...Read more

A memory of Bagshot in 1949 by Melanie Leather

I was born in Byerley Road, Shildon, just up from the picture-house - Hippodrome I think. The male population worked either in the pits or on the railways, you could tell the time by the shift-ends when the men either went to work or ...Read more

A memory of Shildon in 1940

I remember playing games in a field and at 6.45 in the evening someone would shout "Dick Barton is on" and everything was left where it was and everybody disappeared ...Read more

A memory of Draycott in 1948 by Maurice Jones

My mam had died not so long ago when I was 8 years old. Me and my brother and sister, and my dad, we lived in Elm Street, near the wall at the river that came out of the Ebbw Vale steel works, a nasty smelly water way that would ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1946 by Roy Compton