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Once My Home
I lived here for two years in 1941/42. My father rented it from Mrs Switzer who owned Bell Court. I was ten years old and together with my parents was escaping the Birmingham bombing. I used to fish from that very unstable ...Read more
A memory of Bidford-on-Avon in 1941 by
Madeley As It Was
I was born in 1949 in Victoria Road, Madeley and have many memories of life as it was in the 1950's onwards. I remember Jones' buses, Pooles the cobblers, Carters, Stodd's the Drapers, Shums the chemist, and most ...Read more
A memory of Madeley in 1949 by
The Old Bell Hotel
Well not my memories exactly, but those from my father's diaries. He was John Welch and married a Peggie Richens who had grown up in Warminster. They married in the Minster Church and he left immediately for the war. When he came ...Read more
A memory of Warminster in 1940 by
From The Beginning!
I was born in 1938 in Needwood Street off Rochdale Road. My Mam and Dad were allocated a new flat in Kingsley Crescent when I was a year old so all my memories are of the 'flats'. I, along with my two sisters and one brother, ...Read more
A memory of Collyhurst in 1940 by
A Yokels Tale
A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more
A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by
Growing Up In Cadishead
I was born in 1943 in Bankfield Avenue, Cadishead. When I was 5 we moved to a brand new council house in Devon Road, on the same day I started school which was 2 minutes away round the corner. There were 6 in our family, ...Read more
A memory of Cadishead in 1940 by
''the Grapevine'' And Others!
My uncle, the late William John Wilcox, was the proprietor of the 'Grapevine' from the mid 1930s through to the early 1960s. I remember it as a truly old fashioned 'pub' complete with a 'games room' with darts, shove ha'penny ...Read more
A memory of Meare in 1940 by
A Wartime Evacuee
During the war I was evacuated with my family to Dunsmore and we lived in Appletree Cottage, opposite The Fox. I attended Wendover School and returned to London in 1946. At the time Robert Donat lived in ...Read more
A memory of Dunsmore in 1940 by
The Time Bomb On Bell Vue Terrace
I can add information about the September bombing and suggest that one reason for the low number of casualities was that it was a time bomb that landed on Bell Vue Terrace. Aunt Alice and Daisy lived at ...Read more
A memory of Hendon in 1940 by
Children's Home
Does anyone remember there being a children's home in Haywards Heath in the mid to late 1940s? I was sent to one, along with my brother, when we were both infants. Our family had come down from Scotland and were homeless. My ...Read more
A memory of Haywards Heath in 1948 by
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