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I too, remember this bridge well and with affection from my early childhood. We lived in Brokengate Lane up near Tatling End, but cousins lived actually in the village. During the war, my mother and I used to walk down ...Read more

A memory of Denham in 1940 by Gerard Gilbertson

I've put "1948" as the date as that's about the earliest I remember Corts Ltd, on the corner of Cheapside and Silver Street in this photo. The ironmongers and builders merchants business (formerly Cort & Paul until ...Read more

A memory of Leicester in 1948 by John Ling

I was born in 1949 to Nellie and Ashford DISNEY. We lived at 15 Albert Road, and my father worked in the Post Office at BATH'S on the Weston Road. Mr. William Bath was my father's uncle. Before Mummy and Daddy got ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1949 by Janet Moran

I lived with my parents in the right hand side of the white house shown above (almost opposite the W & D bus station) from 1938-57. The house to the left with a hedge around the door was a small ...Read more

A memory of Amesbury in 1940 by Pamela Chaldecott

I was born in the flat above 26 Bridge Street. My parents, Len & Judy Langstone, had the greengrocers; the business was started by my grandfather in the 1920's. I have fond memories of Pinner fair, we could look down on it ...Read more

A memory of Pinner in 1946 by Richard Langstone

I lived @ 34 Gurnell Grove from 1947 to approx.1955. I remember the names of everyone up my alley, and others in the Grove. I had eight wonderful years there, the freedom to go wherever you liked, over the six fields, which took ...Read more

A memory of Greenford in 1947 by Stella Dixon

My late father Donald Jack Baker was born at Cowes on the 18/8/1910, he would later become my father in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) on the 20/6/1940. Through no fault of our father we children grew up in homes ...Read more

A memory of Cowes in 1940 by Judith Petrou Nee Baker

Born in Mortimer Street in 1937, attended Tin Mill School in 1943 and loved it. My brother had started school in 1942 and I would follow him there every day so Miss Maud said I might as well start school. Gran would pass the ...Read more

A memory of Blackhill in 1943 by Vivienne Robson

I remember living in Rutland Road, Forest Gate in 1944, after being evacuated to Yorkshire, we lived at number 21 Rutland Road, my grandparents lived at no 19, and my uncle and aunt lived at no 17. There was a ...Read more

A memory of East Ham in 1944 by Robert Munn

I fell down the air raid shelter and was knocked unconscious. Some of the kids put me in a wheelbarrow and pushed me to the nearest hospital. I still have the small scars on my face. I now live in southern California in the USA.

A memory of Patricroft in 1940 by Joan Dagnall