Search Results

I remember staying with my grandmother Annie Rowlands during World War 2 in the village of Stoke Works on Harbors Hill Farm. There was a neighbouring farm there and I remember a John Ford. My grandmother took me on a ...Read more

A memory of Bromsgrove in 1947 by June Manson

Born Jumples in 1945 above where the flats are, before the houses where built. Went to Stanaly Green 1953 moved to Hunter Hill near the old mill.

A memory of Halifax in 1945 by Digbie Maidment

My name is Edward Hughes and at the tender age of 3/4 I was evacuated from my home town of Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire to Talsarnau during the second world war; staying around 2 years or so in an allocated home for ...Read more

A memory of Talsarnau in 1940 by Edward Hughes

My husband and I moved to Easthampstead in 1959 and were allocated an "end terrace house" in Black Meadows. We went to the local Baptist Church where services were then held in an old house near where Pointe Royale was ...Read more

A memory of Easthampstead in 1959 by Pamela Chaldecott

I remember visiting the house with my mother (Phyllis) and father (Thomas) before we moved in in 1948 when I was 6 years old. There was myself, my twin sisters, another sister who had just ...Read more

A memory of Ivy Hatch in 1947 by Tony Durrant

I was born, illegitimately, in Barony Hospital, Nantwich and lived in Church St, Crewe, moving to Cliffe Road when the "slum" houses were demolished and the police station was built there. I moved from my first school Brierley ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1954 by Lesley Spray

I was born on a row of terraced houses on Liverpool Street, between Ewart Street and Albion Street, Bright Street ran at the back of us. I attended Hope Street School from 1944 to July 1954 and my maiden name was Briggs. Does anyone ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1944

I lived in Cintra Park, off Anerley Hill from 1950 to 1967 and remember the Paxton Arms on the corner of Palace Road. There was a general store on the next corner up owned at one time by the son of a friend of my ...Read more

A memory of Crystal Palace in 1950 by Alan Baker

Hi to all. The public house in the centre of town, where the policeman stood directing traffic was The One Bell. Next door was a shop called the Maypole and next to that was The Royal Victoria and Bull Hotel. Richard Trevithick ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Tom (Sid) Couchman

I married John Hollis from Eyam and we were married for 38 years. Sadly, he died in November 1995. John was born in Eyam, the youngest son of Arthur and Elizabeth (Vanes).They lived in the council houses on Grindleford Road. Eyam is ...Read more

A memory of Eyam in 1956 by Elsie Hollis