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I was evacuated to Cwmllynfell and lived in Railway Road with Uncle Tom and Aunt Alice. Uncle Tom was manager of a local Co-op. Next door lived Vincent, a miner, with his parents. I have happy memories of walks in the hills, ...Read more

A memory of Cwmllynfell in 1943 by Jim Deadman

I was born on 22nd June 1948 at 95 Dryfield Road in the front main bedroom of my nans's house. We lived there until I was 8 when we left my nan's and moved to St. Johns Wood in London. My nan lived there until I was in my ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1948 by Barbara Badzek

The Laws was a beautiful mansion-house in a perfect setting. The drive from the gardener's cottage (Mr Robb) up to the big house was a wonderful journey past mature trees, past the famous rock-gardens and lily pond, the ...Read more

A memory of Kingennie House in 1940

My mother and her mother were born in my great-grandparents' cottage at Hanworth Common. Richard and Blanche Craske they were. Well dear old Richard was really my step great grandad. The true one was ...Read more

A memory of Aldborough in 1944 by Richard Whitten

A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by Tom Thornton

We were living in Barry Island in south Wales, I was getting ready to take the 11 plus, one day when I came home from school my dad was waiting to tell me that we were on the move to Devon. We had spent four years on the Nells ...Read more

A memory of East Prawle in 1946 by Patricia Perring

In the 1940s and 50s social life in Cwmtwrch was centred on the chapel and public house. There were eight active chapels, each with its own distinctive architecture, and representative of the major non-conformist denominations ...Read more

A memory of Lower Cwm-twrch in 1940 by David Lougher

Is there anyone of the Old Jewish community who has any information about the Hamer family? My grandparents entered Southampton about 1904, they came from Warsaw in Poland. I was born in Southampton at the ...Read more

A memory of Southampton in 1943 by Miriam Wolff

I was born in 1949, soon after my parents had moved into 36 Tait Avenue, one of the first Council Houses to be built at Hill Top, New Edlington. I lived there until 1963 shortly before the Comprehensive School was built on ...Read more

A memory of New Edlington in 1949 by Val Brady

I was born at Hill View Lamberts Castle in the 1940s. Mum use to run a small tea rooms and I remember a hiking organisation called the Holiday Fellowship calling their once a week. No mains water, electricity or gas ...Read more

A memory of Lambert's Castle in 1940 by Michael Loving