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I was amazed to see this website!I was at Arley for the whole of the Second World War. The memories that I have are happy ones and I was looking for the prospectus that I was sure I had when I thought of going online. The names leapt out ...Read more

A memory of Upper Arley in 1940 by Janette M Rangeley

The first time I saw Stoke Hall was in late 1947, I and my parents were returning from India, having spent the time there since 1939. We arrived at Liverpool on the good ship 'Georgic', travelled by train to Grindleford then Teddy ...Read more

A memory of Froggatt in 1947 by James Simpson

I started at Salfords school when I was about five around 1935. My first teacher was Miss Licence. Later I had Miss Kick and Miss Ferguson. There were no male teachers. The headmistress was Miss Atherton who had an ...Read more

A memory of Salfords in 1940 by Barbara Giles

I was at Port Regis in 1950 for 3months and in 1952 for 9months. I saw the coronation there, and went with three other girls from my area. I remember playing with a girl called Teresa, also Sister Mary ...Read more

A memory of Broadstairs in 1950

How Lancaster beauty salon, David Frank, survived the recession of the early 1990s by putting their prices UP. My short video can now be seen on my YouTube channel at www.JonDanzig.com: http://youtu.be/k4n5CRolY0w

A memory of Lancaster in 1993 by Jon Danzig

Hi, my name Jacko, I left the castle in 1972, never been the same since. All bad memories. Hi Jaff, how's life? I was only a kid and no kid should go through what we went through. I spent all my time running away. I remember little ...Read more

A memory of Stanhope in 1969 by Robert Jackson

I was born in Edlington in 1940 but was soon given to my aunties Joan and Lilley Desborough to be looked after as my mother already had a child by my future step dad. I lived at 39 St. Thomas Road, second to end house, my next ...Read more

A memory of Stainforth in 1946 by Bryan Maloney

I remember many happy days in the 1940-50s spent by the river near the bridge. It was here that I saw my first otter, we also used to fish from off the bridge. When the 8 a.m train used to go to Blandford, if the driver saw ...Read more

A memory of Child Okeford in 1948 by David Moon

My mother (Phyllis (Howard) Penn had a brother, Jim, who lived in Chelmsford with wife Phyllis and son Brian. Sadly, I never got to meet my Uncle Jim, as he died before my mother and I made this trip. I was 15 and our visit to his home was short, so never got to see the town.

A memory of Chelmsford in 1958 by Andrea Stanley

My parents moved to Cranford in 1938, I was 3 years old. My dad was a pastrycook / baker and had got a job with a local firm in Cranford across from ‘The Berkeley Arms Hotel’ To the left of the hotel was a cherry orchard. A ...Read more

A memory of Cranford in 1940 by Pamela Harman (Keene)