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This is Southcombe Terrace, Axmouth. 6-13 Southcombe Terrace was designed by the architect Frederick Kett and built by Bert Warren around 1937/8 for the Stedcombe Estate. My parents, Rock and Olive Real, then in their mid ...Read more

A memory of Axmouth in 1955 by Pauline Morgan

I was one of ten little girls, plus our teacher, who arrived in Ivybridge as evacuees from Acton, London, at the outbreak of the Second World War. We were taken to a hall (probably at the school) where we were ...Read more

A memory of Ivybridge in 1940 by Geraldine Gasparelli

My grandparents lived in Mountain Ash at 37 Allen Street, the name of Richard and Ada Parsons. After the harvest had finished in Surrey, we, as children, were always taken to Wales for wonderful holiday. We could climb up the ...Read more

A memory of Mountain Ash in 1940 by Pamela Storey

I remember Huins shoe shop, and Evesham Street. I worked for a time in Liptons. I went to college in Birmingham and returned to Redditch to work in N. H. Harris hairdressers in Market Place, above the Singer sewing machine shop, ...Read more

A memory of Redditch in 1960 by Roger Nettleton

I remember playing "houses" in the wood with the twins Jean and Betty.  Also great friends with Anne French, Jean Gardener and also Eileen Wolfington who sadly passed away many years ago.  We lived in ...Read more

A memory of Victoria Garesfield by Jessie Taylor

Although originally from Manchester my parents were living in Filton when I was born in Cheltenham in December 1941. My father, like the majority of men in that area worked at what was then the BAC. He worked at the Rodney Works as ...Read more

A memory of Filton in 1940 by Frieda Curnow

The Miners' Welfare Centre was a Godsend to everybody. There were swings, roundabouts, and the rocking horse on the left where I spent many a happy hour when I was a boy. The hall was used by miners where they could ...Read more

A memory of Dinnington in 1940 by Ramon Fletcher

I grew up in Warwick in the 1960s. These are some of the shops I remember from my childhood, nearly all of which are gone now unfortunately. The Saltisford and North Rock. Summers the  butchers, Maydays the bakers, Hobdays the ...Read more

A memory of Warwick

I moved to High Lane with my parents when I was 15 in 2000. It was a tiny old fashioned village, so tiny infact that there was only one house and everybody in the village lived there. There was one village shop (run by Tubbs and ...Read more

A memory of High Lane in 2000

I also remember Wrotham Road Centre and used to go dancing there, also the Embassy at Welling, my heart throb attended Townley Road for Girls (Sally Tollhurst), all this was around 1959 to 1962. Does anyone remember the ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1959 by Christopher Smith