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Hi my name is Raymond Morgan I was born in the Alpher road Surbiton I ws born in a pub My grand father was the Land Lord of the Surbiton Arms Public House My Grand father was Captin Alphrid Bell He was a serviver of the Somme in 1918

A memory of Surbiton in 1943 by Raymond Morgan

Our family moved to Tillingham in 1943. My father had a job with Mr Drakeford & the house we lived in on the square was a tied cottage. After the war we moved into the first of the Swedish council houses ...Read more

A memory of Bradwell on Sea in 1943 by Derek Cotton

I was born at 105 John Street Blaydon on 25/8/1943. Moved to the big house above the schools on the left hand side,The Curatage. Above that was Tweddles farm; Thornton Weddle ran the farm and his brother had a butchers shop at ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1943

My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos ...Read more

A memory of Shutford in 1944 by Brian Grainge

Although I was just a little lad I can remember seeing the smoking debris of All Saints Church after the Mosquito crashed on it. I was staying in "The Willows" which is opposite the church ...Read more

A memory of Bawdeswell in 1944 by Joe O'brien

Towards the end of the war a 'British Restaurant' was built in Brent Street, immediately to the left of this photograph viewpoint and directly opposite the Brampton Grove junction (Barclays Bank as shown in this ...Read more

A memory of Hendon in 1944 by John Barnes

I think it was 1944.  I had been evacuated from London's East End in 1939, at the age of 4.  Initially I was fostered, but later on my mother and sister (born in 1939) joined me. We lived for a while in Eastville Road, Six ...Read more

A memory of Mamhilad in 1944 by Derek Kennedy

I wasn't from West Auckland, my dad was. My Aunt Belle lived there, who still wore a long black dress in the 1940s and 1950s. She made and sold vinegar, she also kept hens at the back of the house, she had names for them too like ...Read more

A memory of West Auckland in 1944 by Paula Mccutcheon Anderson

I was born in Clarendon Road and live there now. Pitlake bridge years ago before it was changed to Jubilee bridge had shops on either side, provision shop Hallidays?, the butchers, a hairdressers, Wally Whitbourne's grocery ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1944 by Christine Brooks

I have mainly unhappy memories of Marsh Court. During the Second World War it was used as a convalescent home for children and in 1944 I was sent there after being knocked down by a car in Tettenhall ...Read more

A memory of Marsh Court in 1944