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I was born in 1942 in Upton-by-Chester and my mother's family (Maddock) owned the butcher's shop that became Toycraft on Watergate Street, and one in the Market in the sixties. My parents emigrated to Canada with me in tow in 1956 and ...Read more

A memory of Chester in 1947 by Patrick Hampson

My family and I moved from Elm Park in Essex to Scotland in the last weeks of 1948. My father, Leon A. Lalonde, had accepted a position as Chief Mechanical Engineer with John Cochrane and Sons, a construction ...Read more

A memory of Glen Affric in 1949 by Denman Lalonde

During the Second World War my family were evacuated to Cefn Hengoed. Two of my brothers were with the Hughes family, two with the Palmers and two of my sisters with the Jones Famly. We arrived in 1941. Being one of the ...Read more

A memory of Cefn Hengoed in 1941 by Firs Terryt Name La Carneyst Name

I was born in Newton-le-Willows in 1946 and 21 years later married Jackie Emms from Newton-le-Willows also. During that time we would often spend the evening having a drink in the "Leigh Arms" cocktail bar (see photo). In ...Read more

A memory of Newton-le-Willows in 1946 by Ron Platt

I spent my childhood in and around Thirsk, although living in the nearby village of Sowerby. Thirsk was where I went to secondary school. It is where we shopped and went to the cinema (there were two of them, The ...Read more

A memory of Thirsk in 1940 by Margaret O'mahony

I used to live at Bungay under the flight path of bombers taking off and returning to Flixton Aerodrome. The bombers flew very low over our house on their way to bomb Germany. I can remember my mother counting them out and back. Many coming back were running on only two or three engines.

A memory of Flixton in 1944 by Ronald Mickleburgh

I was born in Norwood Green in 1939. I also went to Clifton Road school. We were bombed regularly as the anti aircraft guns were in Osterly Park behind our house which was also opposite St Marys Church. Two Italian prisoners of ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1940 by Rosemary Kind

We moved to Roe Green Village in 1940 having been bombed out in the East End. My father was stationed at Mill Hill Barracks following his return from France. He found us a place to live in Goldsmith Lane, Kingsbury. We spent the ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1940

PRESS RELEASE Legasee wins Heritage Lottery support to record and exhibit the stories and memorabilia of British Veterans of the largest humanitarian airlift in history. Legasee Educational Trust has today received ...Read more

A memory of North Luffenham in 1948 by Michelle Harrison

I am now over 80 but during the years 1938 to 1940 I went to a small preparatory school called Lannor School - which probably no longer exists. I well remember having to take gas masks to school, and having to go through gas mask ...Read more

A memory of Gatley in 1941