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I was born in Shirley in 1935. My parents had married a year earlier and moved to a new semi detached house (cost seven hundred and twenty-five pounds) in the new housing estate. They came from crowded row houses in ...Read more

A memory of Shirley in 1945 by David Roberts

I attended school headed by Dominie Colvin and indeed ended up living there along with two other evacuees, having previously lived at East Crachie with the Ogilvie family. I learnt, among other things, to make snares and nets to catch ...Read more

A memory of Craichie in 1940 by Ivor Soutar

I was born in Blands school house in December 1945 where I lived with my eldest sisters Sheila and Janet and later my brother Keith. My mum looked after the children and my dad ran the school as headmaster, At the side of the ...Read more

A memory of Burghfield Common in 1946 by Christine Scott

Memories of Langwith re Peggy Knight: I think you lived at No. 24.We lived at No.29. Was your husband named Hardy? My name is Bowen.My wife has been trying to find friends from school who were evacuated to Langwith from Lowestoft. Regards, Idris (Taffy)

A memory of Langwith in 1942 by Idris Bowen

Together with my mother and brother, we lived in Sandy Cove, near Rhyl during the Second World War, to escape the bombing in London. One night in, I think, 1944, I was awakened by some noises and my mother came to get ...Read more

A memory of Gwrych Castle in 1940 by Mervyn Rossini

Tom and Arthur Smalley earned their living harvesting mussels and netting eels. Their boat was named 'Doreen Mary 2', another boat named 'Doreen Mary' was owned by Sonnie Braime; in fact they lived near each other in Pulvertoft ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1940 by Bob Marriott

Can anyone remember Arthur Lord as the publican at the The Market Inn? Also in the Fore Street shops just up from the Market Inn there was Mrs Boynes, Florist, and a Gas Shop which was run by Mr Frank Nettles. These ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1944 by Des Sturges

In 1947 there was one of the worst snow falls I can remember, when packed snow in High Street, lasted into March; then those on the dole had to get picks and shovels from the Council and break it up, horse and carts then took it to the ...Read more

A memory of Boston in 1948 by Bob Marriott

I can remember as a young lad, aged nine years, walking along this dockside with my father, who was a railway checker. There was a British destroyer called HMS Vansistartt moored throughout the blitz, just beyond where these cranes are ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Donald Bristow

I was born in Middle Parker Street at 162 in 1946 , at the time I had one elder brother (Ernie) and one elder sister, Lil. W lived in a 2-roomed downstaires flat. My mother went on to have another 5 kids in that flat. The ...Read more

A memory of Byker in 1946 by James Cockburn