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When my dad was demobbed after the war in 1946, we had to move back to London because of his job. We had all our funiture put on a lorry, and the local publican, a Ted Bland, delivered us to a requestioned place over a shop in ...Read more

A memory of Arlesey in 1940 by Michael Smith

This old bloke used to haul this massive horse-wagon up Cluntergate, on a regular basis. I mean Cluntergate was this hill... 1 in 12 about... and this bloke used to haul this massive horse-drawn wagon up to the top and beyond. I ...Read more

A memory of Horbury by Sylvia Kellett

My twin sister and me were brought up in Hixon from babies till we were about 10, we were known as the Taylor Twins. We first lived with our nan in the house that stands at the top of Smithie Lane and Featherbed Lane, we then moved into ...Read more

A memory of Hixon in 1954 by Trudy Allsop

My name is Angie, I was in Warnham Court only for a short while, but I have lasting memories - the grey and burgandy uniform,and walking down to the deer park before breakfast. I haven;t yet found anyone that remembered me. ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1958 by Angeline Fowler Roberts

Does anyone remember the old swimming baths at Redhill? I started swimming there in the 1970s when it was still a Victorian building. The steps in the pool were of stone and the changing rooms were around the poolsides ...Read more

A memory of Redhill in 1971 by Angela Middleton

I lived and was bought up at Cooks Cottages Nuthurst, from 1941 until about 1950. I went to school at Nuthurst village school. I also went to Nuthurst church with my friend from next door, Jennifer, also her mum. My friend and myself ...Read more

A memory of Nuthurst in 1940 by Carol Woolhead

This is only an approximate year of 1954. There was the old hospital at Newburn by the Stanners and it was occupied by these Dutchmen who had came to dredge the Tyne. We would spend many an evening sitting chatting to them as they sat on ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1954 by Jimmy Burrows

This is from about the 1950s. Along Grange Road was a huge piggery and it was owned by the Liddle family, by, did it pong. Further along you came to the railway crossing with the sign STOP, LOOK, LISTEN in red, this was where the steam ...Read more

A memory of Newburn in 1952 by Jimmy Burrows

I lived on London Road near Lloyd Road from about 1946 to 1948 and then on Hemingford Road until 1952.  Walked along London Road to Ridge Road School (Mrs. Clarke was my favorite teacher) and went to the Granada on ...Read more

A memory of North Cheam by Michael Bloxham

I have many memories of the wartime years spent in Corsham. My father was in the Ordnance Corps and served under Colonel Cripps at the Central Ammunition Depot. Up to about 1943 we were billeted at a farm but after that with a Mrs Harvey in ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1940 by James Burslem