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We moved to Colindale Avenue in 1942 shortly after the house was repaired from bomb damaged. Friends were quickly made and I spent many happy days playing in the park opposite the Tube station. The Police grounds were also a spot ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Brian Goodall

I was born in 1932. My father was William (Bill) Cowley, and my grandfather  had a coal merchants business, 'Cowley & Sons'. The photograph of Barnet High Street c1955 brought back many happy ...Read more

A memory of High Barnet in 1940 by Margaret Mosley

My mother, Queenie Grounds, was the headmistress of Lynfield House School from 1946 until 1953, when we moved from Lynfield to The Homestead at the top of Sandringham Road, where it met Lynn Road. ...Read more

A memory of Hunstanton in 1946 by Valerie Curtiss (Grounds)

I was born in Newport in 1942 and after leaving the Nursing Home lived in 6,Garth Hill Bassaleg the home of my paternal grandparents, Oliver and Alice Briney. After a short time my parents (Nellie and Fred Briney) moved to ...Read more

A memory of Bassaleg in 1940 by Malcolm Briney

My elderly mother has been telling me how her first house was in a row of cottages she thinks was called Halfway Cottages, on the corner of Terling Road and Witham Road on the way to Terling. This was her ...Read more

A memory of Terling in 1947 by Susan Seymour

My uncle (PW Brooker) was manager of Smorthwaites chemists for many years in the mid 1900's. Mr Smorthwaite himself was a very old man... I remember meeting him once in the back of the shop where my aunt and others dispensed ...Read more

A memory of Liphook in 1940 by Denis Payne

My mother Kath (Shepheard) lived in Grt Arthur St in Smethwick from 1930 until the late 1950 and remembers playing in the street with her mates. Ivor Coley, Olga Dubberly, William Pritchard, Horris Richards. Evans corner shop and Miss Jennings and the greengrocers Lavells.

A memory of Smethwick in 1940

My memory is of my granny, Mary Jane Smith, formerly Renforth who lived at 7 Ellison St and died there in 1946. I was born in 1940 and according to my birth certificate my place of birth was ...Read more

A memory of Sheriff Hill in 1946 by Ruth Mc Kenzie

i was evacuated with my mother and brother around 1940 the first time and twice again later during the war. The first time i was about 2 years old and stayed with a couple who ran a public house in cherry hinton so i was ...Read more

A memory of Teversham in 1940 by Maurene Kauter

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton ...Read more

A memory of Stourbridge in 1949