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I lived with my family, Mum, Martha Annie (nee Lumb), dad Arthur, sister Marie (now Richards) and brother Allen at the bottom end of Gas House Lane, now known as Gas Works Lane. We lived there until around 1951/2. I went to Elland ...Read more

A memory of Lockwood in 1941 by Jack Wright

My mother, Queenie Grounds, was the headmistress of Lynfield House School from 1946 until 1953, when we moved from Lynfield to The Homestead at the top of Sandringham Road, where it met Lynn Road. When ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1946 by Valerie Curtiss (Grounds)

I was born in Newport in 1942 and after leaving the Nursing Home lived in 6,Garth Hill Bassaleg the home of my paternal grandparents, Oliver and Alice Briney. After a short time my parents (Nellie and Fred Briney) moved to Highfield ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1940 by Malcolm Briney

Not sure of the year. My grandparents ran a fish and chip shop in Stanfree and a small holding; their names were Clara and Fred Mallinder. They had a son, Walter, and a daughter, Winny. They sold up in the late 1940's and bought a ...Read more

A memory of Stanfree in 1948 by Linda Geraghty

I was born in Six Bells in 1940. My aunt lived in Brynithel, her name was Olive Gummer, mother of Colin and Malcolm. My grandparents lived in Alexandra Rd. I left Wales in 1949. I still have relatives there but have lost touch would love to find them. Family name was Gwilliam .

A memory of Brynithel in 1945 by Marilyn Goode

My father’s family moved to Rhyl in 1891 and my mother’s family in 1925. My parents fell in love on Rhyl Golf Links. Even though they settled in Portsmouth after their wedding, family bonds held fast and we spent every summer ...Read more

A memory of Rhyl in 1940 by Anne Joseph

We lived in Grafton Place and my gran had come to visit us from Frindsbury. As she was going home we heard the sound of the doodle-bug overhead, we were not worried as we knew we were safe all the time you could hear it. As we watched ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1944 by Gordon Savage

My nan and grandad lived in the grounds of Parndon Hall. My grandad worked for the Arkwrights. An unexploded bomb landed near the cottage they rented. For a few weeks they were given rooms in the Hall. I spent a few days and nights in that grand Hall.

A memory of Harlow in 1943 by Gillian Wilson

Born 1946, lived at Prospect Farm, Hardisty Hill till 1972. Then got married, returned in 1978 to 2 Hardisty Hill, known in them days as the Airey houses. Parents still lived at Prospect Farm. Went to Fewston School then to Otley ...Read more

A memory of Blubberhouses in 1946 by David Marston

I went to the village school, firstly the one in Dorset Road and then the primary school near West Park. On the corner was Martins Bank with a big gold grasshopper over the door. I used to try to get to the school playground early ...Read more

A memory of Mottingham in 1940 by Sylvia Fellows