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I was born in 1941 and as a child, lived at Park Head Row, Birdsedge. There was little traffic then and we used to play hopscotch on the main road. Around the age of three, whilst swinging on our garden gate, I vividly remember the ...Read more

A memory of Birds Edge in 1944 by Janice Haigh

I was a victim of the Hendon bombing in 1941 aged 5. We used to live York Road with a lot of our uncles and aunts with the name of Long. We were made homeless through the bombing and put into the church hall on the Edgware ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1941

I spent a lot of my childhood at my G.Grandmother's auld hoose in the High Street, Linlithgow across the road from Alva House. Through a close, a Mrs Swan lived up right and Liza Dalrymple on the left. Next door was a Jimmie ...Read more

A memory of Linlithgow in 1940 by Connie Telfer Smith

John Kinniburgh - my memories of Gateshead are all good ones. I lived in Gateshead from 1946 -1958 then moved to Essex. I was born in a house at 3 Ashgrove Terrace, near Saltwell Park and then moved to 11 St Cuthberts ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1946 by John Kinniburgh

My first day of school was at Park Lane in the fall of 1949. One of the teacher's names was Mrs Reese. I thought that she taught arithmetic but stand to be corrected. I did not stay at the school long. We were sent to the new ...Read more

A memory of Wembley in 1949 by Linda Russell

I was very fortunate to spend my childhood in Lepe. My mother and father worked at the big house as housemaid and chauffeur to Lady Dilke, we lived on the grounds in the bungalow. We had 8 happy years there. I went to Exbury infant and ...Read more

A memory of Lepe in 1948 by Hilary Williams

Hello Margaret, I knew the Cowleys and the Laidlaws, but only as acquaintances. I did work with a Miss Pauline Cowley and lived opposite a Mr and Mrs Cowley in Northfield Road near Cockfosters,New Barnet. I don't know how ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1949 by Roland Wood

69 years ago I remember my father going to war. Many tears. He was in the RAF and was sent to Topcliffe and Dalton. He was occasionally based at then Skelfield School. He made a lot of friends in Rainton. They ...Read more

A memory of Rainton in 1942

I lived at 77 Gordon Road, in the first house to be built there, from 1935 to 1948. I remember the Balcons, Plesners, Feldmans, the famous Marty Feldman and many more. The war brought everyone together. I remember the solo and ...Read more

A memory of Finchley in 1940 by Harold Brown

Hello, used to stay in Seasalter from 1948 to 53 in a caravan on Alberta Park or Blue Anchor Park. Remember going on to the mud flats at low tide to see the crashed planes from the War, and cockleing and Mum cooking them and we would eat them for tea! Went back to Alberta 2011 - changed a bit.

A memory of Seasalter in 1948 by Brian Trimmer