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apparently there were 2 crashes.. an RAF mosquito crashed near the reservoir and an rcaf (Canadian) stirling got too close to aycliffe and was shot down near the elephants trunk by our own guns... oops - also a bus was attacked by a German plane in the same area

A memory of Shildon by ericinstro

I am currently working on a book about my relatives, the Esplins and Cuthberts who lived in Dysart. Most of our relatives have left Dysart and live spread out over the globe. My grandparents lived down Dysart in Cook St and ...Read more

A memory of Dysart by k.cuthbert

My Grandparents Dick and Emma Jeffrey lived at 10 Moorside When I was growing up We would go on a weekend to visit them and go up on the moor with grandad or down to the woods. We would go to the well with the buckets to get the water as they ...Read more

A memory of Baildon by Carol Booth

I went to Hayling Island Suntrap School When I was Five Years Old Around 1957/1958, I remember one boy hand his head hit by a train while looking out of the train window on a school trip and seeing blood running down the train ...Read more

A memory of Hayling Island by Michael Raftery

Hello fellow northolters. I was born and raised in northolt. Southwell avenue. St Vincent was my school about 1964-5 till about 1970-1. I used to go to the northolt youth club down car road. Most times just hanging about. I got banned ...Read more

A memory of Northolt by johnallan7777

My father was on his way home after his shift at metrovicks in Trafford park when saw the fire in the town hall. He stood on the bridge over the canal and watched it burn until the clock tower collapsed. I was born in sale cottage ...Read more

A memory of Sale by ken

I was born in Basingstoke in 1942 at 17 Mortimer Lane, pulled down during the town redevelopment. I remember playing on the bomb site opposite St Michaels Church, now a remembrance garden. We also used to go ...Read more

A memory of Basingstoke by brianperrett

The streets around Boston Manor were more spacious and had bigger houses than Hanwell. Southdown Avenue was very grand. Going towards Elthorne Park I remember Mr Mitchell our geography teacher at Bordeston school lived. On the ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Nick Beard

I was about 5 when we moved here approximately 1943 from Perham Down. I went to the Garrison School in the Tidworth Barracks, with the American PX behind us. They chucked us kids sweets etc. - a luxury with sweets on the ration. ...Read more

A memory of North Tidworth

It was the late 1950's and we were travelling in a motorbike and sidecar. Mum and dad were on the bike and the two children (my brother and I) in the sidecar. We started to descend slowly down the hill, all ...Read more

A memory of Countisbury by johndavison10