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Every year in our school holidays we would stay at my aunt's house at Sawbridgeworth and all my family would meet at my grandfather's house at Fullers End, Elsenham for a day. Me and my brother, Thomas, would ...Read more

A memory of Elsenham in 1949 by Michael Marlow

Benenden was my home for the first 5 years of my life. We lived in Greenwood, a lovely white Kentish weather-boarded house on the Cranbrook Road, sadly knocked down and modernised a couple of years ago. I ...Read more

A memory of Benenden in 1940 by Anthony Doran

I used to go every summer school holiday to my great aunt & uncle's cottage [ Elm Tree Cottage]. I visited last month and it is still there in excellent condition. I remember harvest time, shire horses, haystacks, ...Read more

A memory of Hitcham in 1948 by Ray Gibson

I lived with my family, the Widdowsons, at 6 Beck Road South from 1938 to the late 50s. Dad, Douglas, was the Branch Manager at the Co-op at Register Square in town. I remember playing cricket on Crane Hill with ...Read more

A memory of Beverley in 1940 by Joan Roseveare

Hi Mate. You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner. During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street. Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home to ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Donald Isherwood

We lived in 40 Anderson Street, Dad worked in the mine in Kirkconnel. I knew James Kerr, Charles Gallagher, Peter Lee, Jim Weir, Bill Russel, Robert Dixon, Tony Milligan. and Jimmy Meikle, who all lived in Anderson Street, and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1940 by Robert Mc Dicken

Doe Lea was near to Hardwick which during the Second World War was an Airborne training camp, we could go into Hardwick and watch troops jump out of a balloon, they had to jump from a balloon a few times before jumping from a ...Read more

A memory of Doe Lea in 1943 by Ernie Martin

i grew up in Chiseldon in the Second World War. In those days, Chiseldon was spelt Chisledon. I lived in Hodson Road and attended the then primary school opposite the Patriots Arms. The two teachers were Mrs. Bullock and Mrs. ...Read more

A memory of Chiseldon in 1940 by Tony Eggleton

Hi, it's not actually my memory but my dad's. He was in the RAF stationed at Ford, a Spitfire crashed in Felpham, I read somewhere it was on the tenth green of the golf course? The strange thing was, when my father was sent to remove ...Read more

A memory of Felpham in 1940 by David Millman

Mr Richard lived here at the fish and chip shop. Mr Richard was also the PE teacher at Helston Secondary Modern School, Penrose Road. We use to call in to the chip shop on our way home from Scouts at Lowertown. I lived at 89 ...Read more

A memory of Helston in 1949 by John Sampson