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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

Family holidays were spent in Whissendine so in 1940 I was evacuated from London to stay with my grandmother Annie Buzzard. I went to the village school so remember a lot of village names, my Uncle Cecil Buzzard was also well known ...Read more

A memory of Whissendine in 1940 by Barbara Ball

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

Hi all. My name is John Potter. I have found out the last address of my Gran and Grandad Hollands, at 78 High Street, Halling. I remember going across a bridge past the graves in a wood on the right to the allotments to help my grandfather, ...Read more

A memory of Halling in 1940 by John Potter

I lived in Eastbury Road from 1935 with my parents & brothers until 1960 when I married & moved to Berkshire. In March 1944 our house along with the one next door were totally destroyed by enemy action bringing ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood in 1944 by Alan Tutt

In 1939 on the out break of the Second World War my father was sent to London aerodrome, from Cornwall, to repair bombers and fighter planes. I was born in Cornwall, 12 Dec 1940, and my mother wanting to be with her husband took me to ...Read more

A memory of Send in 1940 by Jan Cowling

My family lived at Trelights. My Uncle Reg was a school teacher in London although he was a Trelights boy, when he came home in the summer holidays in his old Austin 6 he would often take us to Polzeath, they were special ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1940 by Jan Cowling