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Hi Mate. You wrote under Greengate and Irwell banner. During the late 1940s, I worked at The Salford Electrial Instrument works in Silk Street. Many a day I walked to Victoria Rail Station via Greengate on my way home ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1940 by Donald Isherwood

I remember going to the Odeon every Saturday morning, it cost 6d (about 2 new pence). We used to go to the 'pictures', as it was called then, as a family most weeks, and I well remember coming out at the end of the ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1940 by Pamela Harman (Keene)

My great uncle Bob (Robert McLaren) had a corn-chandler's shop in London Road. Great grandfather Donald McLaren (Bob's brother) was Head Gardener at The Grange, Havant, where he lived with my grandmother Violet ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1940 by Jean Sylvia Williams

I have recently purchased a piece of jewellery that includes a medallion that is engraved on the back with "Tincleton, Six-A-Side, 3 - 6 - 44". I am wondering if anyone can give me any information as to what that might mean. I live in the San Francisco, CA area. Thank-you, Denise

A memory of Tincleton in 1944

We lived in 40 Anderson Street, Dad worked in the mine in Kirkconnel. I knew James Kerr, Charles Gallagher, Peter Lee, Jim Weir, Bill Russel, Robert Dixon, Tony Milligan. and Jimmy Meikle, who all lived in Anderson Street, and ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1940 by Robert Mc Dicken

Doe Lea was near to Hardwick which during the Second World War was an Airborne training camp, we could go into Hardwick and watch troops jump out of a balloon, they had to jump from a balloon a few times before jumping from a ...Read more

A memory of Doe Lea in 1943 by Ernie Martin

i grew up in Chiseldon in the Second World War. In those days, Chiseldon was spelt Chisledon. I lived in Hodson Road and attended the then primary school opposite the Patriots Arms. The two teachers were Mrs. Bullock and Mrs. ...Read more

A memory of Chiseldon in 1940 by Tony Eggleton

Hi, it's not actually my memory but my dad's. He was in the RAF stationed at Ford, a Spitfire crashed in Felpham, I read somewhere it was on the tenth green of the golf course? The strange thing was, when my father was sent to ...Read more

A memory of Felpham in 1940 by David Millman

We lived over the Express Dairy (opposite the Odeon) My early school days started in 1937 when Bandon Hill Infants were at Milton Road - we moved to Milton Road in 1935. The 654 Trolley bus route was nearby ...Read more

A memory of Wallington in 1945 by Brian Phillips

I have a photo of the 'top class' sitting in front of what had been the connecting passage from the Head Master's Office(Mr Bradshaw) to another part of the school. It was known as 'the drainpipe' after the school was blitzed, we ...Read more

A memory of Wincheap in 1946 by Doris Howe