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My great-aunt lived in this house - we always knew it as 'Beam Ends'. She had a little antique shop in the single storey bit at the end (on the right).  I also remember the garage on the right in the picture which was run by a Mr ...Read more

A memory of Scole in 1945 by Sue Jones

I wonder if anyone else can remember Earlsmead School, which was housed in the reception rooms of Mrs Bates's home at 13 Corfe Avenue.  I lived across the road at No 14, where I was born in 1942, and I was allowed to begin my ...Read more

A memory of South Harrow in 1947 by Wendy Rhodes

I lived with my parents in two rooms in a house on Church Street near Partridge Square.  I had a small mongrel dog called Spot who used to go down to the bus shelter and wait for the bus to Porth, get on it and ride to Porth and ...Read more

A memory of Llwynypia in 1943

I went to Woolsery School for a few months in 1948. We lived on a farm called Little Walland, and walked to school, about a mile. I went back this year, after a 60 year gap, and remembered the school immediately. I ...Read more

A memory of Woolfardisworthy in 1948 by Ken Elliott

I was born in May 1945, in Green Street Green - Highfield Avenue, and moved to Woodside, Chelsfield in 1949. I lived there until I married in 1966, so I have clear memories of Crown Road. Two roads led off Warren Road up to Crown Road, ...Read more

A memory of Chelsfield in 1945 by Sandra Viner

Have written memoirs of boyhood of my 2 brothers and myself in Falconwood, Eltham and Welling. Did local newspaper rounds for Hutton's at Falconwood Station and carried his moneybags to Martin's Bank, Eltham High ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1940 by rayjscott

My father was a military policeman and we lived at no 17 MSQ (just around the corner from these houses and now known as Wellington Terrace.) At the front of our house there were woods across the road and a ...Read more

A memory of Knaphill in 1949 by Sandra Evans

I lived in Trallong at this time. I was 7 years old. I lived in a cottage next to the school and the church on top of the steep curving hill which led down to the vicarage. The vicar was Mr Lewis and his daughter Carol and I ...Read more

A memory of Trallong in 1947 by Bernard Morris

My sister and I were evacuated to St Merryn in 1940. I was aged 6 and my sister aged 11. We lived in Bermondsey, London. I shall always remember our first night in St Merryn. We were sitting in the School Hall,and were the ...Read more

A memory of St Merryn in 1940 by Bill Killick

We lived at "Caradon" during the Second World War. I was young when we moved there and we left soon after the war ended. I remember Dr Thames' pre-school, and the nursery school on the Terrace in New Polzeath - ...Read more

A memory of Polzeath in 1943 by Diana Robinson