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My grandmother lived in Godalming at 20 Pound Lane, her name Annie Winter. She used to work in the Milk Bar in the High Street with a lady named Mrs Margaret Barnes. She did not die until 1977 and is buried alongside her husband ...Read more

A memory of Godalming in 1948 by Margaret Finch

I will always have happy memories of spending most of my school holidays with my grandparents, Tom and Emma Howley, in Railway Terrace. I can still remember the smell of the bakery at the end of the road. I know we also had ...Read more

A memory of Blaenclydach in 1949 by Iris Hill

My dad Ronald Peel was born in 1932 in Wheatley Hill. He lived in Burns Street and he had a brother Tom and two sisters, Florence and Mary. My dad stayed in Wheatley Hill till about 1954, he married ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1946 by Deborah Farrow

I was staying with my grandmother who lived in Lynch Close and she sent me for a loaf of bread (straight out of the oven) from Ponds Bakery in Windsor Street. As I came out of the shop, the air raid siren went off (very loud) which ...Read more

A memory of Uxbridge in 1940 by Lorna Jennings

Further down East Street there used to be a little sweet shop, if I remember it was called (or known as by us school evacuees), 'Miss Mays'. It was a 'tuck shop' for us as we used to run down a path from near the school to get there ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1940 by Roy Purser

I was 10 years old in 1944, and my great-uncle Mr Arthur E. Sims was the occupier of the Ewe and Lamb Inn. I have found on this website that it is now home  of the The Leighton Buzzard Observer! My uncle ...Read more

A memory of Woburn in 1944 by First Name Last Name

Does anyone remember Joe and Maggie (Margaret) Williams from Heneage Street? Joe was in the Navy and Maggie brought up the family (including my father, Ron) I would love to hear of any reminicences. Thank you.

A memory of Vauxhall in 1940

I was born in 1949 at home in West Wycombe Road and lived in the area until 1969. My family owned one of the two Corn & Seed Merchants businesses called Jones and Rivett Limited in Oxford Street and Dovecote Mill ...Read more

A memory of High Wycombe in 1949 by Gerald Rivett

I lived in a two story flat, over what was Barclays Bank. Almost opposite was the Guidhall and St Nicholas and Faith Church. We had a clear view from our lounge and upper bedroom window of the road leading to the station and ...Read more

A memory of Saltash in 1949 by Raymond Guy

I have put 1947 but infact it is from earlier than that to 1954. I think this was a great place for us as kids as we had freedom and not much parental control, I think mainly due to our parents who had just survived the war years, ...Read more

A memory of Bearsted in 1944 by Ian Simmons