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Since my birth coincided exactly with the outbreak of World War II in the September of 1939, my mum must have felt that childbirth was synonymous with calamity;  I was Mum's 'war effort'. Home was a semi-detached two-storey house ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1945 by Heather Rohrer

This is the pub we went and trained in and from there we got our life back on track.

A memory of Great Parndon in 1985 by Peter Webb

Ref: the smithy to the left of the thatched cottages. I was evacuated at the age of 11, birthday the day before, to Miss Scott's cottage (which was sited opposite the smithy). On my first day in Barton (1/9/39) I was given a bedroom in ...Read more

A memory of Barton Seagrave in 1940 by Tom Andrews

I remember I hadn't had my 5th birthday, and my mum said that tomorrow I was going to start school. School, I thought, whats that!. The next day I was dressed up and at about 8.30 a small van with seats arrived outside ...Read more

A memory of Newtown in 1957 by Vanessa Hillman(Nee Miles)

Visited Sir Walter's birthplace at Hayes Barton and touched the house to link with his history and spirit. Beautiful location and could imagine him as a young man looking out over the same countryside that I could survey.  It ...Read more

A memory of East Budleigh in 2007 by kelvin.baines

I remember 'guddling' for trout in the Teal Burn in Auchtertool.  Most of the lads in the village tried it at one time or another. When we caught one we would measure it by placing the nose of the trout on our finger tips ...Read more

A memory of Auchtertool in 1946 by Harry Robertson

Hi.  I moved into the Gamecock in 1963 with my parents Norman and Jean Bennett and my brother Bryan, I was only two years old. My parents were landlord and land lady. Bartons grocers was next door, there was no Gamecock Field as ...Read more

A memory of Harworth in 1963 by Eleanor Hipwell

I have lived in Australia for 42 years but Coxhoe always remains home to me. The 7 Frith photos which are published at this site are the real Coxhoe to me because I was living there in that era and that is how it ...Read more

A memory of Coxhoe in 1958 by Ron Cranson

My mother asked me to go to the shops and get some bread at Barton's the bakers. I was just ten years old. 'But' she said, 'if a raid starts, don't hang about but run straight back home'. I often had to go to the shops, it ...Read more

A memory of Dagenham in 1942 by William Pullum

It was either 1939 or 1940 when we moved into Holly Cottage, I was two years old, there was a  thatched roof and it had been two houses semi det, very primitive, dirt flooring, with a huge stone and I really mean big - ...Read more

A memory of Pickmere by Brenda Burton