Search Results

I can remember after the war I was 3 and my sister was 1, we lived with our mum and dad in a nissan hut with a corrugated roof in Eltham Park. My dad made it beautiful with bedrooms and a living room. We had a log stove in ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1946 by Lyn Taylor

My name is Carol Kemp nee Joyce and I was born along the links in a cottage there back in 1944. My mother was called Edna Pile and her mother was Mamie Pile, my Gran, who lived in Amble all her life. I have very fond memories of ...Read more

A memory of Amble in 1948 by Douglas Kemp

1948 - onwards. My Mother and her two cousins were brought up by their Aunt and Uncle as above and I spent all my childhood holidays with them. Great Aunt Liz was well known for her teas for visitors and ramblers from CHA Porlock. ...Read more

A memory of Culbone in 1948 by Rose Marie Davies

Back in 1944 then being 13 years of age I was admitted into the Cottage Hospital in Epsom to have my tonsils removed. I recall at the time the only other person in the ward was a soldier at the far end of the ward, who each time the pretty ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 1944 by John Forder

This is where I was born, the street has barely changed. I lived there with my parents and sister, we lived there until we moved to the prefabs in Midton. Only a couple of properties on the other side have been demolished, it was so ...Read more

A memory of Gourock in 1941 by Moira Wright

My family were the first to occupy number 5 Tenter Lane, Warmsorth. I think that would be at the end of 1946. I have photos of myself and my older brother outside that house in the snows of 1947. We left in the summer of ...Read more

A memory of Levitt Hagg in 1947 by Enid Richardson

Saturday mornings was when my mother and I would join the family next door for our day out, down to the Tarpots Corner and a bus into Wescliff by the playing fields and then a dancing lesson at Mimi Greens School of Dancing ...Read more

A memory of Great Tarpots in 1946 by Colin Mackenzie

I was born in Flixton before moving with my parents to Stockton Road Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. At the time my dad was working at Metrovicks in Trafford Park before getting a job working for the MOD at The Royal Ordinance Factory - ...Read more

A memory of Chorlton-cum-Hardy in 1941

My mother was Evelyn Escolme. She was married to Reuben Escolme of Laurel Bank...he was the son of Titus. My mother worked for Seriah Butler. She was put into service at the age of 13, left her home in ...Read more

A memory of Yealand Conyers in 1940 by Avril Grounds

I live in Tiverton but only recently discovered that our town hosted the US 4th Infantry Division in the later stages of the 2nd World War. I have been helping the veterans of this Division (The Ivy Division) ...Read more

A memory of Tiverton in 1944 by John Howard Norfolk