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In 1940, during the Second World War, my great-grandmother Eva Ethel Cherry was killed in the bombing of the Morning Star public house in Swanscombe.

A memory of Swanscombe in 1940 by Donna Barham

I remember going to Taxal Edge Convalescent Home for some weeks. I cried for the first twenty-four hours because I was so homesick. I can recall how we woke up to the lovely smell of porridge every morning, it was the ...Read more

A memory of Taxal in 1949 by John Shaw

The year may be slightly out here but during the war, German bombers , running for home would jettison any remaining bombs anywhere to give their planes a bit more speed. A man living in Hambledon left his house ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1943 by Michael George

In a corner of Kent known with justification as the Garden of England stood the magnificent building known as Lee Priory. It saddens me so much that it no longer exists. In my childhood a Colonel Belcher resided there with ...Read more

A memory of Littlebourne in 1940 by Gordon Tumber

I was evacuated to Fenny Stratford, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire to be with my aunt. Whilst there I sat an exam called "the 11 plus" which I passed and on the basis of which I was awarded a scholarship to Mitcham County Grammar ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1941 by Douglas Tunbridge

I went to St. Botolph's School on The Hill from 1945 to 1950 with my friend Molly Freeman who lived a few doors away from me in York Road. Molly was in the year ahead of me but her brother Georgie was in my class. Recently ...Read more

A memory of Northfleet in 1949 by Jean Hendy

My dad was evacuated from the City of Hull at the beginning of the Second World War to firstly the village of Wintringham where he stayed with a Miss Cholmley at Grange Garth with five other evacuees one of whom ...Read more

A memory of West Heslerton in 1940 by Geof Beaumont

I was at St. Marys Convalescent Home, as it was known then, around 1947. I was seven years old and spent a whole year there. My name then was Carole Hunt. I was sent there from Great Ormond Street ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1947 by Carole Mc Cluskey

My grandparents moved to 49 Highcliffe Road in 1947. They were one of the first families to move into the new council houses. There they raised their six children, three of whom went to Beauchamps School. My mother and her ...Read more

A memory of Wickford in 1947 by Tracy Hanna

We lived in Mill Street in the Dingle and I remember one night my Mum took me and my younger sister to the Mayfair cinema, we saw the picture and as it was ending the Sirens went. The Manager said we could stay at the cinema until the all ...Read more

A memory of Dingle in 1942 by Ruth Strong