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My parents Leo Landy and Mary Casey, then engaged, were coming back from Petts Wood in the evening when the bombs started falling, they began to run, but my mother started having hysterics and my father had to ...Read more

A memory of St Mary Cray in 1942 by Mary Vandervell

'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

We used to live on East Hill estate, the bottom end number 69 Peter Head House. My mum Bobby, my 2 brothers, graham and Steven, me (Lorraine), and my sister Michelle - we had great fun there playing in the playground at the back of ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1969 by Lorry Beckers

I went to Wakefield where I called at the wimpy Cafe. I was the only customer. There were two young girls, one manning the till, the other was cleaning the tables and then wiping the table tops down. I had ordered a Wimpy burger and ...Read more

A memory of Sandal in 1970 by Roland Mitchell

Gunsite Farm was at the end of Limekiln Lane, which was a dirt track. On the left were a row of cottages, on the right, bigger semi detatched where the better off lived. The Alan Rutherford family, (loads of them), Brian Cummings, Steve ...Read more

A memory of Fawley in 1958 by Mick Reynolds

I just wondered if any one of the top end gang would remember my memories of playing football, I was born and bred in Alice Street in 1945. My mum and dad were Hannah and George Etheridge. I also had relatives ...Read more

A memory of Goldenhill in 1950 by Frank (Yanky) Etheridge

My brother, was in the army and was wounded and sent to a hospital near Banbury, where he met and married a nurse, who was living with her parents in Kings Sutton. I ...Read more

A memory of King's End in 1942 by Mollie Hoyle

Well not just 1953 but for most of the 50s, I was brought up by my Grandparents Charlie & Elsie Duffy "Mam & Dad" to me. Mam's family had a newsagents shop years eariler on Gunson Street, ...Read more

A memory of Miles Hill in 1953 by Barbra Edwards

We lived in Alice Street,next door to where old Minnie used to live, with the trees in her garden. I vaguely remember the pavillion. Ernie the tramp and Meg used to go to me grans to borrow a tea bag.(mad) Muppet cope Wallabys ...Read more

A memory of Pelton Fell by David Young

Since I was working for the firm that built the British Restaurant in North Harrow and I lived on Westmorland Road I had a quick ride to work each morning. Once all the plumbing was done I had to go to ...Read more

A memory of North Harrow by Vincent Holmwood