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I was born in 1938 in Toooting and we lived at 23 Blakenham Road. My mother sold the house in 1976 after my father died. My first school was the St Anselm's convent in Tooting Bec Road until the age of 7, where we were ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1940 by Bernard Burton

The picture shown is North Street, where my grandmother & grandfather lived. I always knew the village to be up the hill where some of the shops were. At the end of the houses on the right was the ...Read more

A memory of Kingsdown in 1940 by Maurice Lipson

can any body remember the dairy farm in BRUTON !SOMERSET. I used to go there on my holidays to my uncles farm ! he was the local milk man. I used to sit up next to him on the horse and cart delivering the milk out of big churns ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1940 by Roy Compton

Help someone, I am looking for any info on the above. My father worked there as did his brother before the war and I am unable now to find any photos or history about the place, of course it has been demolished now but I ...Read more

A memory of Steep Marsh in 1940 by Carol Smith

Visiting the website I discovered a photograph of Portsmouth Guildhall which brought back sad memories. On 10th January 1941 the city was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe including incendiaries on the Guildhall. On the ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1941 by Eddie Harding

I was sent by train to Neath (from London during the Blitz) for collection by my grandparents, Richard & Priscilla Phillips. Being only 2 or 3 at the time, I remember the house being to one side of a shop on ...Read more

A memory of Brynamman in 1940 by David Phillips

I was born in Amberley July 26th 1941, my sisters were evacuated there and mother and father came to visit them and then I came along! Memories are faint and distant, but holidays were spent there after the war with my ...Read more

A memory of Amberley in 1941 by Julie Flatman

Yesterday, 6/2/2014, I like thousands of others in Swindon had to stay in because of the weather, not even my daily totter round the block with my dog, so I sat back and went on a mental walk around Crewe, so what did I see? My ...Read more

A memory of Crewe in 1940 by Ken Wood

I remember the passenger ferry terminal well during the late 1940's. I lived with my family in Wakefield Street which was a ten minute walk away with my little legs - I was 4 or 5 at the time! We had so much freedom in ...Read more

A memory of Gravesend in 1948 by Keith Henry

I was born at 1/161 Hingeston Street and lived their till 1960.

A memory of Handsworth in 1944 by Jacqueline Howell