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My mother & I were rushed into the cellar of the 'George Hotel' which was opposite Woolworths which took a direct hit. We came out afterwards and I was rushed home from what seemed quite an adventure for me, ...Read more

A memory of Yeovil in 1941 by Samuel Legg

I will always remember regular family trips to Abbey Park, fishing in the Soar, hiring the metal pedal boats and many other memories. I always remember that the one day of the week that we used to go to the park was nearly always on ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1949 by Roy Lowe

My first school was Botany; now a house. Children from the local villages went to Botany School until they reached the age of ten, then to Chedworth School. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Calcot in 1940 by Dorothy Lawrence

My memory is of living in the farm house at Dunkeswell Abbey with Mrs Trenchard when I was evacuated from London during the second world war. I used to walk to the school in Hemyock picking strawberries ...Read more

A memory of Upottery in 1942 by Patricia Attfield

I was posted to the Hall after RAF basic training at West Kirby, where an Air Vice Marshall saw a mural illustrated map, another conscript (John Young) and I created, in the Education Hut. ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1949 by Ronald Gilbert

I have fond memories of my childhood/early teens in Sutton-at-Hone. I attended the C of E Primary school in the early 1940s; I remember one of the teachers, a Ms. Rogers, the headmaster was a layman in the local church, I ...Read more

A memory of Sutton at Hone in 1940 by John Andrews

My great-grandfather's name was Woodford and I believe that he was the post master for Whiteparish during the Second World War. I know very little of that side of my family and for myself and my children, I wish to learn more ...Read more

A memory of Whiteparish in 1940 by Esther Planner

As a boy I used to cycle or walk through Badby Woods (then lovely-now wrecked) into Fawsley Park and fish all day in two of the Lakes. The Hall was deralict in those days and supposedly haunted by the "White Lady". ...Read more

A memory of Fawsley in 1940

I don't know when it opened as a nursing home nor when it closed and can find no information of that period but I was born there in September 1945 at a cost of 3 17s 6d (I still have the original invoice!) and ...Read more

A memory of Llanfrechfa in 1945 by Graham Hadley

During the Second World War, as youngsters we would look forward to the Saturday mornig matinee at the Odeon cinema (4th building on the left of photo). Entrance was thruppence (three pennies). With our pocket money we ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 1942 by John Forder