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I lived with my grandparents for a short while in the late forties and visited often over the next fifteen years or so. Their home was one of the wooden bungalows that was Ewden Village. My grandad worked on the reservoirs as ...Read more

A memory of Ewden Village in 1948 by John Hattersley

Have read with interest memories of others who lived in the prefabs in Molyneux Rd, My Dad had just returned from WW2 and this was our first real HOME. I too remember Trevor Jones - his Mum and Dad were one of the first in the ...Read more

A memory of Upton in 1947 by Barbara Lewis

Born in 1939 left Port Clarence For Billingham 1956

A memory of Port Clarence in 1949

I was about 6 or 7 when I was first in Wales. I was put into a school in place called Llanabrie, it was called Coombe School and I think it was a ‘naughty boys’ school. It was a long time ago; I don’t think I was ...Read more

A memory of Llansteffan in 1940 by Robin Watts

From John Moloney; john@moloney.com I was moved to Oldham as an evacuee from Stretford in 1941 to live at 395 Featherstall Road North. The house was occupied by my great-great aunt, Ellen Farrow, and her son ...Read more

A memory of Oldham in 1940 by John Moloney

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

Being born and raised in Kidderminster leaves me with a lot of good memories. I moved to the USA in 1958. My Dad worked on the canal before the war and indeed during the war. As a kid I spent a lot of my time ...Read more

A memory of Chaddesley Corbett in 1946 by Peter Conway

I went to Wilcot School from 1943 to 49. Miss Brooks taught little ones. Big boys had to fetch water from the well for each classroom. The crate of milk bottles stood next to the tortoise stove that heated the classroom but we had to ...Read more

A memory of Wilcot in 1949 by Dorothy French

Is there anybody out there who lived at or visited the village of Glanwydden, or was a pupil of the local county council school during the period 1937 to 1945?, I attended the local school between 1937 and 1945 ...Read more

A memory of Glanwydden in 1940 by Elwyn Hughes

My maternal grandfather, Allan Henry Ball, had a bicycle shop in Pill prior to the Second World War. My mother had a photo of herself as a child outside the shop (in the 1920s). I believe that both my grandfather and his wife were born ...Read more

A memory of Pill in 1940 by Peter Guala