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My father, Wifred Broadhurst, and mother, Gladys (nee' Bryan), were married in 1927, the reception being held in Booth's Hall, opposite the Board School Entrance which was in ...Read more

A memory of Carlton in 1940 by Alan Broadhurst

You may like to know that I today attended the funeral of the chatelaine of The Manor, Lady Valerie Guinness. After the war my father Peter bought the rectory at Sculthorpe about three miles from East Barsham and the ...Read more

A memory of East Barsham in 1946 by John Labouchere

I am Brian Skippers wife & I too was born in 1944 at Gate Burton Hall. After I was born we went to live with the lady who owned the little post office in the village & my mother used to help out to earn our keep. She ...Read more

A memory of Gate Burton in 1944

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

We moved to 30 Dean Road in 1948 and I went to St Andrews school then onto Dudden Hill Secondry Modern School. Our flat had a side entrance which came out onto Grove Road. We also used to play out in the road with my 2 brothers Ron and ...Read more

A memory of Willesden in 1948 by Peter Ashby

My birth certificate says I was born at Bushey Hospital in the April of 1943. I’m told that it was during an unusually hot spell. I lived at 84, Lynton Avenue in Colindale up to 1965 when I got married and moved away. ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Peter Woolford

My parents were Gerald and Phyllis Smith, we lived in Goldsel Road from about 1939/40, having moved from 'Crescent Gardens'. My father worked at Philip Ladds Nurseries, which was owned and run by his uncle Philip. My father ...Read more

A memory of Swanley in 1940 by Gerald Smith

My grandparents, Harrry amd Amelia Fieding, moved to Marli from Rhyl where Harry built boats; he continued to do so at Marli between (about) 1935 and 1949. Careg Daffydd was a cottage on its own, down a track and at the edge ...Read more

A memory of Groesffordd Marli in 1940 by Martin Woodhouse

My grandad and grandma were Thomas and Margaret Burn, who had 3 childen, Jack (my dad), Jean and Marion. .Jack married Mary, Jean married Benny and Marion married Ralph. We lived in Grant Street and grandad and grandma lived in East ...Read more

A memory of Broompark in 1940 by christine_burn

Who can forget the grim start to 1947?  I was one of those arriving at RAF Padgate in March when after barely 2 weeks induction we were all sent back home and the place virtually shut down. No heating, washing in ice ...Read more

A memory of Compton Bassett in 1947 by Brendan Sheehan