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As a 14 year old living in these dangerous war year's, we were used to seeing dog-fights between the Spitfires and Luftwaffe so much so that we were rather blasé about taking cover when danger threatened. Came the flying ...Read more

A memory of Twickenham in 1944 by Patrick Pyke

Doreen Jewess, Pat Bezant, Pat Sharman, Rita Bolton and myself would often walk from Midsummer Avenue past the little park at the top, past the horse trough at the Wellington where the trolley buses turned round and carried on ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by Linda Roberts (Nee Tallis)

I was so lucky to have landed in Muswell Hill to take up residence with a family of three headed by their matriarch, Cecelia in 1980. She regularly took in students of all kinds to live in the house ...Read more

A memory of Muswell Hill by Sharon Van Buskirk

I remember going down Snakes Lane to the airport as children and playing in the shelter by the bridge. Later in my early twenties when my husband was working at the airport and we had a frogeye sprite which ...Read more

A memory of Southend Airport by Corinne Fisher Nee Reynolds

WH Smith in Victoria square provided us local kids with hours of fun. Down stairs you were able to read magazines, books and newspapers. You could buy pens, pencils and paper for your school work, but the best part of WH Smiths ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1975 by Robert Francis

It is not widely known but the first time penicillin was used successfully was when it was used on a fourteen year old boy to save his left leg. He had a badly infected leg and was in fact dying with because of the fast ...Read more

A memory of Bredfield

In the fifties Kiddy bristled from dawn to dusk and back to dawn again as the Lowry-folk on 'six-'til two' grumbled and tumbled out of their beds and either cycled or 'legged it' (if they couldn't afford the ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster

I was born in 1943 and lived in Wilmington. I initially went to an infant school in Oakfield Lane, however, my mother was told by the Sisters of Charity that they should pay for me to go to a Catholic school ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1950 by Pat Mc Loughlin

myself and ray and dave blakes were standing by st andrews church when the st trian coach came by the girls were waving their hockey sticks through the window i beleive it was shown in the film

A memory of Stanstead Abbotts by William Griffiths

I was born in 1933 and went to Simms Cross School. When the blitz of liverpool took place, firengines came from all over the North West and after the first night they were replaced by a fresh group of machines and those who had ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1940 by Don Moar