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Along with my mother Ruby, I was evacuated to Alconbury on my birthday, 23 September 1940. Unknown to me, my paternal grandparents had already moved there and were in residence in Chapel Street. My Mum and ...Read more

A memory of Alconbury in 1940 by Barry W J Chandler

My Granny and Grandad Weller, in their cramped semi, took me, my mum and dad, my brother and sister plus 2 billeted soldiers under their loving wing in 1940 and I can honestly say that was the most happy household you ...Read more

A memory of Reigate in 1940 by Norman Gardner

My brothers and I returned to Bourne End at the end of the war. We had been evacuated to Nottingham. We lived in a small house called "The Nest". It was the last house on the road. Lunnon's Farm backed on to all the houses ...Read more

A memory of Bourne End in 1945 by Eileen Savedra

My dad Henry Burton became Post Master at Dunks Green in the early 1950s. I had a wonderful childhood there. It was so quiet in the evenings that we played skipping with a long rope that was tied to the bus stop and ...Read more

A memory of Dunk's Green in 1953 by Angela Bagley

I was born and bred in Tunnel Road, Galley Common in the Pit houses (belonging to Haunchwood Colliery). One of my early memories of which there are many was of the tip which was waste slag from the mine and was always on fire ...Read more

A memory of Galley Common

Down Beggers Hill and round the bend, just a short distance from the Jolly Wagoners and next to the Eight Bells, there was a blacksmiths who used a furnace to shape the iron shoes that were used to shoe horses. The horses ...Read more

A memory of Ewell by Patricia Dickson

My brother and his wife, having met at 14, got married at 20. My brother was an apprentice motor mechanic and his fiance a trainee hotel receptionist, so money was tight and they had no idea where they were going to live ...Read more

A memory of London in 1980 by Carol Fisher

My parents bought the little cottage, 1 Harbour View (end of Boringdon Rd) in Coronation year. The area at that time was, quite frankly, a slum and many of the surrounding houses were being condemned and pulled down. Our cottage ...Read more

A memory of Turnchapel in 1953 by Delphine Plaskett

Mr and Mrs Noble must have been your father and mother. My mother, Mrs Clare, had known Mrs Noble from childhood and then lived in Kingsground, just down the hill. She weekly went in for a chat so my brother and I would be with ...Read more

A memory of Eltham in 1940 by Dorothy Brooks

I remember this being built after the old parish rooms burnt down. I think I was 5 or 6 when the fire happened. I went to Junction Road School and we put on a concert on the stage in the parish rooms when I was about ...Read more

A memory of Burgess Hill by Jane Hains