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I was 7 when we moved into 128 High Street, Aveley in 1942. Our back fence backed onto the rec' and my best friends were Donald Crawford, Ray Andrews and Bob ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1942 by Peter Gough

I lived in Medway Road from 1934-1956. I also remember the doodle bugs (as did Gordon Savage, I remember him), the dockyard heavy guns, and school. I was due to start school on the day war started and finally went to ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1940 by Joan Lemar

Hi, my dad, Brian Birchall was brought up in Hulme. He lived on Elvington Street with his mam, Louisa Birchall, dad Robert Birchall, younger brother Joe Birchall (late) and older brother Athony/Tony Birchall whom unfortunately ...Read more

A memory of Hulme in 1940 by Louise Birchall

Owen Hughes Roberts was my grandfather, who came to Rhostyllen approx 1900 from Bethesda when the Penrhyn slate quarry workers went on strike for better conditions and a wage rise. He took lodgings in Church Street and a job ...Read more

A memory of Rhostyllen in 1947 by Geraint Lloyd

My mam had died not so long ago when I was 8 years old. Me and my brother and sister, and my dad, we lived in Elm Street, near the wall at the river that came out of the Ebbw Vale steel works, a nasty smelly water way that would ...Read more

A memory of Cwm in 1946 by Roy Compton

Hi my name is Barrie George. I was born on Shakespear Street and went to Ross Place Jnr School and then Stanley Grove Boys School. Moved to Lamb Street behind Chiappies chippy. My best mates where Maurice Shaw and Tony ...Read more

A memory of Ardwick in 1949 by Barrie George

An early memory I have is the Whitsuntide march. We all put on our best Sunday clothes and marched behind a band with our church banner held aloft by the strongest boys. The marching column passed through the village picking up on ...Read more

A memory of Ecclesfield in 1946 by Brian David Brown

Every Tuesday lunch time I went to the market held in the Market Place. At that time animals, with the exception of fully grown cattle, were sold in the Market Place. I remember, on a hot summer day, seeing several escaped pigs ...Read more

A memory of Salisbury in 1946 by John Crouch

Yes, I remember those things mentioned by Tony Barker. We lived at 38 Wallingford Road from 1939 to 1943, went to the same school and the same church so probably knew each other. I can remember playing in ...Read more

A memory of Handforth in 1940 by Nancy Young

I lived at Coldharbour on Mr Passmore estate. Also there was Mr & Mrs Wady, Mr Puttock, Mr Turner, And a couple who ran the paper and sweet shop behind the crown in Chiddingfold. I went to ...Read more

A memory of Chiddingfold in 1948