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I was born in Tythby in 1948. Rose Cottage on the Cross Roads of Tythby. Church on one corner, Miss Cox's house on another and Bagleys's farm on the other. The youngest of the eight Williamsons. Ours was a full ...Read more

A memory of Tithby in 1948 by Gillian Emerton

Our family lived at Jackson Brow in Pott Shrigley. We were living in No. 2 when the war was declared in 1939 and we listened to this on an old Lissen radio which required two dry batteries and one wet accumulator to run. A year ...Read more

A memory of Pott Shrigley in 1940 by Wilfred Jackson

I remember playing football, hockey on skates, whip & too, home-made bogies [pram wheels], there were not many cars then. The bomber that crashed  Irlams oth' height about '47,  collecting books for salvage during the war, ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1945

I was born a Willertt at 5 Kilnhurst Rd in 1940. I remember the noise of German fighters going to bomb Sheffield and many German or Italian prisoners marching from Kilnhurst to the camp at Ravenfield. They used to throw us ...Read more

A memory of Hooton Roberts in 1940 by Patricia Stirk

The gable end of the house on the left is 39 Mill Lane and Back St starts at the junction over the hill and not visible here. My father built the house about 1935 when he was  21 years old. I grew up there until 1955 when it was sold ...Read more

A memory of Clophill in 1945 by Paul Nichols

I was at St Michael's from 1943 to 1950. The school had just moved from Uxbridge because of the war. Old gilded pictures, suits of armour stored.  We weren't suppose to go there. Great friends with Barry and Copp. We ...Read more

A memory of Tawstock in 1943 by Hugh Halliday

Went to Church Minshull School 1940 -44.Two classes two teachers.Miss Upson And Miss Potts (Lottie) Education was probably basic but we learned our 3Rs Lotties sister was the post "man" and must have had a ...Read more

A memory of Church Minshull in 1941 by John Moody

I was brought up in Upper Belvedere and I was very happy. I first lived in Cheshunt Road and then when my nan died we moved to Barnfield Road. I went to Bedonwell School and Northumberland Heath School. My vivid memory is ...Read more

A memory of Belvedere in 1940 by Beryl Hatton

I was born on 24 July 1944 in Frimley Green and emigrated to Canada with my mother in 1945. I recall her telling me that Frimley was bombed during the week while she and I were in the hospital and that she had to cover ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1944 by Terry Jones

Looking for a book about breamar in the 1940 because my partners mum lived up there with her mum dad sisters and brother

A memory of Braemar in 1940 by Anne Fraser