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My name is Carol Dawson (nee Thomas), I lived in Kenley Road with my mum Ellen, dad Len & my brother John. I went to St Georges School in 1951, I remember Mr Allen & Mr Church, there was a dishy teacher there also ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1946 by Carol Dawson

I remember every fine Sunday afternoon dad and I would set off from White Cross Avenue, Tideswell to Little Hucklow to visit my auntie and uncle, Alwyn and Alice. We used to walk there and back, I would have been 4 ...Read more

A memory of Little Hucklow in 1940 by Elsie Hollis

I lived in Brook Bungalow between Latchingdon and Althorne during the war years and visited grandparents there into the 50's. I remember Barbie and Alec, the Mathams and the Plumbs (who ran the local garage) with such affection and ...Read more

A memory of Latchingdon in 1940 by Mollie Baldwin

Who still alive remembers the several small bombs dropped on the right side of the mountain looking down the valley. The 2 larger ones dropped on the left side and the three bombs dropped in the village itself that ...Read more

A memory of Cwmfelinfach in 1940 by Thomas Bisgrove

I can add information about the September bombing and suggest that one reason for the low number of casualities was that it was a time bomb that landed on Bell Vue Terrace. Aunt Alice and Daisy lived ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1940 by Richard Pealling

I will add my memories of Pinner Fair while I am able. 1946 and in my last year at Potter St School. A youthful man dressed in a sort of "cowboy outfit," faced a young woman spread against a board. He threw several axes each side of ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1946 by Peter Giles

During the war I was a pupil at St Mary's school in Russel Road, about 100 yards from the theatre. When there was an air raid during school time, the whole school would march up to the stage door of the theatre and all of us ...Read more

A memory of Wimbledon in 1940 by George White

My parents were friends of the Lukes and as my father was in the war, and Birmingham was getting more bombing, it was decided to send me down to auntie Dorothy. I enjoyed down there, although I was only 4yrs old I still ...Read more

A memory of Newquay in 1943 by Pamela Hart

I well recall the day I set off for school, it was sunny as I left the house by Black`s garage. As I approached the school, I noticed a large crowd opposite the school gates. A spitfire had come down between two houses without touching ...Read more

A memory of Callander in 1940 by Christopher Fentiman

My great grandmother, Mrs Burbidge lived in the house on Charwelton Hill, three fields away from the main road. Mother said a tin box was left by the road where post, bread and groceries were left. Later, in 1941 my grandfather, gran and ...Read more

A memory of Charwelton in 1940 by Terence Wilcox