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Can anyone help me with a photo or information re the folowing? We rented a small 300 year old cottage in Fairford. From the main square, one would turn left and the cottage was down on the right in front of a ...Read more

A memory of Fairford in 1941 by Carl Hall

I lived at Monument Green, Weybridge until 1948. During that time Eyot House was occupied by Lord and Lady May (of Bryant and May Matches). There was no bridge in those days, you had to ring a bell and a man brought a boat over to ...Read more

A memory of Weybridge in 1945 by Eveline Denyer

This part of Croydon was where I once lived, during and after the war. I have been searching for a photo of the Methodist Church which I attended as a child, mainly at their Sunday School. In this photo I can see ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1943 by Philip Harfleet

I was evacuated to Bury Farm, to a lovely family, the Oakleys. It was one of the happiest times of my life and I still visit, although most of the family have moved away some still remain. The village has changed after all this time but ...Read more

A memory of Braughing in 1941 by Rita Tuting Nee Fletcher

I was known as Beryl Pooley. I lived in Copley House from 1942 til 1954 or 1956, I can't quite remember. I remember Sutton Park where we went on Saturdays, wooding. The wood was for the fireplace. I remember being cold ...Read more

A memory of Sutton Coldfield in 1942 by Barbara J Patterson

My family moved to Ashbourne in 1942 when I was 6. My father was the engineer at the Nestle factory in the town and we lived in a big company house on the rising ground to the North of the town. There were two houses - mock ...Read more

A memory of Mappleton in 1944

I remember going to Welton, with my mother and father, on their motorbike & sidecar, to pick damsons, to make jam, at a Robbins relative that lived in Welton. As far as I have been able to learn, Robbins lived and farmed in ...Read more

A memory of Welton in 1940 by Jeffery Robbins

I moved to Brimington aged 2 in 1947 when my parents had the shop at 81 Station Road. I went to Brim Boys School and left in 1962 to join the Halifax Building Society in Corporation Street Chesterfield. In 1968 I married Pat Goddard from ...Read more

A memory of Staveley in 1947 by Max Trickett

It was some time in 1941 I believe, when after enduring some weeks of the blitz I was evacuated away from London to an old farmhouse called Cinder Hill Farm a little outside the village of Whitestaunton. (I have no ...Read more

A memory of Whitestaunton in 1940 by Ken Frankland

Swimming at Eastriggs consisted of swimming in the sea when the tide was in because when the tide went out all that remained was miles of mud flats. However the local youths (of which I was one) created our own swimming pool by building a ...Read more

A memory of Eastriggs in 1942 by Robert Hurst