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I used to live in Church Town on the corner down the road from the butchers, it was a thatched cottage (long gone now). There was a large pine tree growing on the corner of the churchyard, my brother and I always liked ...Read more

A memory of St Newlyn East in 1951 by Peter Bailey

I was born and spent my early childhood at Rapleys, Grazeley Green. My father's farm, James Farm, was at the far end of the Green in James Lane. We had a herd around 120 friesians for milking as well as arable ...Read more

A memory of Grazeley Green in 1955 by Charles Skipwith

Uttoxeter did not suffer much during the war. The first stick of bombs fell in a field at Loxley, and a further stick followed later. The only 'blitz' was on the Bailey and Mellor families, in New Road (parish of Stramshall) - ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall in 1941 by John Mellor

Alexandra railway bridge was just behind Blackfriars Road Bridge and was removed in the 1980's. I seem to remember Taylor Woodrow cut it up with machinery mounted on the rail lines, then Smit, the Dutch salvage firm came ...Read more

A memory of London in 1982 by Dave Hill

I was born at Mayday Hospital 1953. I had an older brother, John Read, and sisters, Judith and Gillian. John went to the Catholic school St Peters and Gillian and me went to the convent in Lingfield until we all emigrated to ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1962 by Clare Read

I was a evacuated to Swan Wick in the war and put with a family by the name of Baileys. They lived right across the road from the church on the Ripely Road. There was a bungalow to the left of it. Mr Bailey used to keep pigeons and he ...Read more

A memory of Swanwick in 1941 by Roy Newley

I used to visit my Bailey family, they lived on the Pear Tree estate, I stayed with my nan and grandad Bailey in Great Haywood. The fish and chips from Lower Brook Street were the very best, the years between 1953-56.

A memory of Rugeley by Christine Pitcher

In many parts of the world the countryside is largely unclaimed, untamed, even uninhabited; consider, say, the large swathes of Australia’s Kimberley region, Indonesia’s Kalimantan, or the interior of Baffin Island. ...Read more

A memory of Dorstone in 1940 by John S. Batts

Just south of the entrance to the Airdries was the Methodist Church where we had summer bazaars. Adjacent to this lived Ernie Beard and his wife Betty. They had a Dalmation called Major which I used to walk for ...Read more

A memory of Langstone in 1961 by Michael Davies

My name is Alan Taylor, when I was a baby I was looked after ( unofficially adopted) in 1941 by the Bydawell family, due to problems during the war. Dad (Bill Bydawell) bought a piece of land in The Drive, Ifold and built a temporary ...Read more

A memory of Loxwood in 1945 by Alan Taylor