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As a youngster I, along with two other brothers, attended the RED school in West Barnes Lane (infants and juniors) and when old enough, I moved over the sports field to the White School (seniors). My brothers moved on ...Read more

A memory of Motspur Park in 1944 by Neil Mac Gregor

During the second world war when I was about three years old my parents thought it would be safer for me to leave London and live with my mother's parents in Bedlinog. We lived in the High Street and I have such happy ...Read more

A memory of Bedlinog in 1940 by Margo Smith

I visited this site and was intrigued to find pictures of Slinfold. One of them, the village hall, recalled the time when I belonged to a village group called The Stane Street Players run by Mrs Knibbs. We performed ...Read more

A memory of Slinfold in 1940 by William Cooper

Our journey to Mickleton started when we arrived at Chipping Campdon, there was no one to meet us, we, my mother, an aunt and I were taken to the local police station where we stayed the night.  Next morning we ...Read more

A memory of Mickleton in 1944 by Mavis Upchurch

My wife, Kitty Pearce, nee Jewell, was born at home, at No 2 Railway Terrace in Doublebois, in April 1947! Hopefully the photo will show how close to the main railway line, Penzance to Paddington she lived! There was a ...Read more

A memory of Doublebois in 1947 by Michael Pearce

As a 13-year old lad freshly returned from the United States (to which my Dad had been posted for oil shipment duties), I found myself one September day a little teary-eyed at the doors of Edgarley Hall. I did not know then that I was about ...Read more

A memory of Edgarley in 1946 by John Sansom

I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

My brother Charlie Black and myself Carol Black were brought up in Bow Brickhill. Our mother, Ruth Black (nee Stone) was born in this village, there are photos in the school library of us all. My mother's ...Read more

A memory of Bow Brickhill in 1946 by Caroline Robertson

I was my parents' first child, born at a nursing home in Broxbourne Road, Orpington, in 1936. We lived in Woodhurst Avenue and my earliest recollections are of going shopping with my mother. I remember Queensway ...Read more

A memory of Petts Wood in 1940

I was born in the flat above 26 Bridge Street. My parents, Len & Judy Langstone, had the greengrocers; the business was started by my grandfather in the 1920's. I have fond memories of Pinner fair, we could look down on it ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1946 by Richard Langstone