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My grandfather was steward of the Victoria Club in Kingsbury. My parents owned Towerseys, opposite the Vale. My other grandad, Rowland Towersey, was a basket maker with a shop which, during the war, became Bucks ...Read more

A memory of Aylesbury in 1945 by Lesly Batcheler

I was moved to explore the interest in Hatches Farm, Coggeshall Road by Winifred Murray in the first edition of the Braintree book. I was a grandson of Fred and Nellie Crozier during the years of war, together with my mother, Ethel ...Read more

A memory of Cressing in 1941 by Michael Lewis

My dad, Jack Stanley (born 1937 ) told me of a lion which escaped into a back garden when the train it was on was hit by a bomb. I have found a clip on pathe news so I know it happened, but can't find much more information. Would love to hear more about my dad's tale.

A memory of Battersea in 1940 by Sara Stanley

My Uncle Fred had a watchmaker and Jewellers shop in Liphook Square. (F H Payne) Also my Uncle Percy (P W Brooker) was manager of the chemist shop also in the Square. (Smorthwaites)

A memory of Liphook in 1940 by Denis Payne

My grandparents grew up in Collyhurst, when they got married they lived on Elizabeth Anne Street. They were Betty and Jim Butterworth - my dad Jimmy and aunty Maureen were born there. Then they moved to Blackley. When I was ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1944

Does any one out there remember the Welch Family of Craghead. My great grandmother Rachel Welch nee Todd was still living there up till her death in 1944. Her husband Johnson Welch died from lung damage from the mines in 1908 and ...Read more

A memory of Craghead in 1940 by Cheryl Mellan

My husband recently took me on a trip down Memory Lane to Ash Vale. I am 76 years old and can remember everything so vividly, having been evacuated there during the war years. We lived in Balmoral Road and my mother became friendly ...Read more

A memory of Ash Vale in 1945 by Maureen Thurston

My family, that is my mum and dad and two sisters, went to Hele Bay Hotel for our summer holidays for three years, arriving at Ilfracombe on the Alantic Coast Express from Waterloo. Great holidays when you are a ...Read more

A memory of Healaugh in 1946 by Peter Pegg

My mother and father had their honeymoon in Llanddulas. It was the favourite camping place for the company of the Boys' Brigade attached to our church in Denton, near Manchester. My first memory of this ...Read more

A memory of Llanddulas in 1943 by Bob Wagstaff

I was born in 1949 and spent my childhood in Foulden until I was around 14 when we moved to Brandon in Suffolk. My grandmother, Mrs Hunn, lived in the village till she died aged 96. I would love to hear from anyone ...Read more

A memory of Foulden in 1949 by Christine Scigala