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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 started my life in 1936 at Charlmont Road. These houses had no bathroom (we used a tin bath in front of the fire) and outside toilets. I went to Selincourt Road Schools, infants then juniors. I remember during the war the ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Brian Lawrence

I enjoyed reading Peter Butterworth's memories of Smallbridge. I went to the same school( Halifax Rd), 1937-44. My name then was Sylvia Higgin (now married to Stanley Rudman - since 1959). My younger brother, Trevor Higgin, also ...Read more

A memory of Smallbridge in 1940 by stanley.rudman

I remember, in what must have been June 1944, when myself and our neighbours the Brays were watching what seemed like an endless stream of lorries loaded with soldiers coming down the hill (High Road) and on to somewhere, with ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1944 by Colin Mackenzie

My family owned the Chinese laundry at the corner of Cannon St. and Liverpool Rd. The laundry was named the Soo Wing Laundry, after my grandfather. I was born in August 1941 and, as a baby, I remember being wrapped in ...Read more

A memory of Patricroft in 1940 by Peter Soo

I am surprised that no one has added any memories to this page. When I was a child the village was small and everyone knew everyone else, now it has changed out of all recognition, apart perhaps from the very centre by ...Read more

A memory of Fair Oak in 1947 by Gloria Knight

I have vivid memories of Piperhill farm and house despite my age at the time (2). My father was a clerk of works at Brackla airfield at the time and we all lived with the Urquharts at the farm. I have clear ...Read more

A memory of Piperhill in 1943 by Allan Frew Mc Culloch

I lived in Spindle Cottage (now, I see, simply 'Spindles') with my mother from mid-1940 till the end of the Second World War, from the age of five till ten; my father, who was a codes and ciphers officer in the ...Read more

A memory of Eversley in 1940 by Martin Dilly

I remember Guy Fawkes night in Convent Garden, Notting Hill just after the war. The bomb sites were full of adventure and wood to build huge bonfires. For a couple of weeks prior to the big night we Convent Garden Gang ...Read more

A memory of Notting Hill in 1947 by Dennis Rawlings

I lived at 54 Oaks Road Kenley from about the age of 18 months with my twin sister Pamela and our brother Roger who was three years older. My maiden name was Brookbank. I remember the back garden was very steep on several levels, and right ...Read more

A memory of Kenley in 1949 by Susan Beach