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Our family lived in Palmerston Avenue, and then moved to Palmerston Drive (both named after Lord Palmerston). One of my most significant memories of life in Palmerston Drive was when people living in the whole street had ...Read more

A memory of Litherland in 1940 by Reg Nicholson

My mum was born in March 1931 in the Easington Colliery area, 26 Boyd Street, and was the youngest of 5.  All the men in the family were miners - they lived close to Easington and Horden for work. The two elder sisters, Doris ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1940

Saturday mornings we would trip off to Worksop on Booth @ Fisher bus from Kiveton Park with a suitcase. Call at Davis shop on Bridge St just through the lights at Newcastle Ave. Pack eight loaves of bread in the case trip off to Ryton St ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1940 by Dorothy Sankey

I moved to 120 Boundary Road, Bidston in 1938, from 11 Clifford Street, off Laird Street. Attended Bidston Avenue School and later Tollemache Road School - Mr Gidney. head master, Pollett. Evans, Blackmore, ...Read more

A memory of Bidston in 1940 by Les Walker

I lived with my parents in the right hand side of the white house shown above (almost opposite the W & D bus station) from 1938-57. The house to the left with a hedge around the door was a small ...Read more

A memory of Amesbury in 1940 by Pamela Chaldecott

I really don't know where to start as I feel very emotional about the beautiful little village that 'Penrhyn' was, all those years ago. The very centre with the war memorial, the pump where everyone had to go to fetch their ...Read more

A memory of Penrhyn-coch in 1940 by Nansi Parfitt Edwards

I too, remember this bridge well and with affection from my early childhood. We lived in Brokengate Lane up near Tatling End, but cousins lived actually in the village. During the war, my mother and I used to walk down to ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1940 by Gerard Gilbertson

Hi I'm Mike Foster and I was born in Chalfont St Peter in Feb 1936. My mother who had two children; me and my sister, had no where to live. She was offered by some charitable source a two up two down home on the main road ...Read more

A memory of Chalfont St Peter in 1940 by Michael Foster

My first school was Botany; now a house. Children from the local villages went to Botany School until they reached the age of ten, then to Chedworth School. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Calcot in 1940 by Dorothy Lawrence

I lived in Norland for just over 50 years and remember the war years quite well, and the night the doodlebug came over and came down on a farm in Sowerby. We had a few army places including the glasshouse on Walton Street in Sowerby ...Read more

A memory of Norland Town in 1940 by Keith Marsden