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A few months ago I started to try and contact "boys" who experienced Rope Hill School in Boldre during the forties and early fifties - but then sickness overtook my efforts and things ...Read more

A memory of Boldre in 1948 by Robert De Winter

1942 was the year I left School after 4 years at Alexandra Road School, but I started work after school long before that. I had a paper round on the Cassiobury Estate when I was 11, then delivered groceries for Tesco's and later ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1942 by Ken Field

I was born at 221 Hedgely Road, Hebburn in 1938 and spent the war years there before moving to Prudhoe where my father Bob had started work at ICI. I still have some memories of the old town including the lakes, St bedes Well, my ...Read more

A memory of Jarrow in 1940 by Dave Firman

Hi Lynda, I don't recall your name but recognise many of your memories. I remember Brertons, and I think the general store was Downeys, at least a Mr. Downey ran it. An assistant's name was Dixie. Also there was a shop called ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1940 by Pat Cove

I lived with my parents, 3 brothers and Nan above my Nans greengrocers shop called CARELESS in Colne Road until 1950 when my family moved to a brand new housing estate in Hanworth. I remember in later years the Grocers, think it was ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham in 1947 by Ann Overton

My wife, Kitty Pearce, nee Jewell, was born at home, at No 2 Railway Terrace in Doublebois, in April 1947! Hopefully the photo will show how close to the main railway line, Penzance to Paddington she lived! There was a grassy, ...Read more

A memory of Doublebois in 1947 by Michael Pearce

Born in Hale in 1941, I have many happy memories of growing up in Hale. Weekly visits to the grocers (Burstons ?) near the railway station. Playing with friends around Bankhall Lane (lived at number 43) and the Bollin Valley. ...Read more

A memory of Hale in 1941

I was born at what was then no 5 Chain Terrace in 1935. My name then was Arthur O'Hara. My surname has since been changed to Harrow. The photo of Chain Terrace in this site shows the house that I was born in (I think), with ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1940 by Arthur Harrow

I lived in Wigpool after the Second World War with my new wife and baby son. There were no proper roads to the village, just mud tracks which became impassable in the winter for vehicles. This meant we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wigpool Common in 1948 by Colin Hall

I remember my parents swinging me between them along a fir tree'd lane to the sea, singing 'Sailor Boy-oh'. We were camping at a site run by a man called 'Roly' (Rowlandson perhaps). Imagine my parents' delight at camping under ...Read more

A memory of Stoke Fleming in 1945 by Joy Heyes