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I was amazed to see this website!I was at Arley for the whole of the Second World War. The memories that I have are happy ones and I was looking for the prospectus that I was sure I had when I thought of going online. The names leapt out ...Read more

A memory of Upper Arley in 1940 by Janette M Rangeley

My memories are in book form, title as above. My book was published in Feb. this year (2011) and is available from John Lovell, 73 West End, Brampton, Huntingdon, CAMBS. PE28 4SG. ...Read more

A memory of Great Stukeley in 1940 by John Lovell

I lived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne from being 3 so I really can't remember much. I lived with my mother because my dad was in the army, he came home in 1945 and we had a big party in the street, it was lovely. We had parties ...Read more

A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by Rose Berger

My parents, brother and I moved to Nanpantan in 1949 and lived on Snells Nook Lane, we were there until 1954 and then moved down to Farningham in Kent for my Dad's new job. We hated to move as we all loved Nanpantan. I had 3 ...Read more

A memory of Nanpantan in 1949 by Norma Hauser

I moved to Mitcham in 1941 as a 3 year old having been "bombed out" elsewhere. Many of the memories in these pages are similar to mine. But perhaps not this. As a ten year old my mate Tony Burls and I lived near the Swan Inn. We ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1941 by Jack Simmons

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

To G. Lilley, Your comment about the Mechanics Institute brought back many memories. Around the early forties I recall clearly the dances held at the Institute, the ladies with their dresses (pre-war ...Read more

A memory of Calverley in 1944 by Terry Offord

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

A few of my happy memories of living here in Kirkley Cliff opposite the Putting Green, went to school at was Alderman Woodrow Sec/School helped paint a fishing boat scene in the entrance, days on Trawlers /Drifters as ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1948 by John Carr

I was born in Edlington in 1940 but was soon given to my aunties Joan and Lilley Desborough to be looked after as my mother already had a child by my future step dad. I lived at 39 St. Thomas Road, second to end house, my next ...Read more

A memory of Stainforth in 1946 by Bryan Maloney