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I can remember my nanna and grand dad (Charlie and Winnie Davies ) writing their bets out on a piece of paper and me running from Acacia Grove in Seacombe to Alf Spearings Bookies ...Read more

A memory of Wallasey in 1968 by Tony Williams

I was born at 3 Dornden Cottages in June 1942. My father (Charles Harris) was Chauffer to Mr Coombe at Dornden. Unfortunately Mr Coombe died around 1947 and we had to move out of our cottage as it was ...Read more

A memory of Langton Green in 1942 by Kathleen Lock (Nee Harris)

We had an idylic little house with two rooms and a small kitchen where we spent Summer holidays, running in the lanes and dreaming in the fields of corn and poppies.

A memory of Laindon in 1960 by Dawn Smith

My family came to Merrymoor in 1961, the little building next to it was called Crafts and Gifts run by the Atkinsons, this moved to what is now Bettys Surf Shop and then my Dad used it as a Beer Store untill the mid 60s when the Fish and Chip shop was built.

A memory of Mawgan Porth in 1961 by Lynne Bennett

My two brothers, my sister and I were all born in Minster in what is now called Turner Cottage but was then "The Swifts". My granddad was a village postman and my best friend's granddad was also a postman and we ...Read more

A memory of Minster in 1968

I was lucky to live in Portpatrick - my father came to HM Coastguard Station in 1953. We had come from Australia, and it took my mother some time to settle in, I think: she was a town girl through and through. My sister and I felt ...Read more

A memory of Portpatrick by Shiela Mac Lean

I remember well the Post Office on the corner where the bus parked. This shop also sold groceries with fresh ham and bacon hanging up behind the counter. Next door was a Wavy Line, a newsagents, the oil shop run by the ...Read more

A memory of Hackbridge in 1960 by Charlotte Norman

The school bell would be rung around the playground. Dinner time. The children taking school lunch would cross to the church hall. My best friend and I would race away up the school brae and further on till we reached 'the ...Read more

A memory of Kinnoull Hill in 1951 by Winifred Lilian Macdonald

A South Londoner, I was 12+ when WWII started in September 1939. I was evacuated with Wandsworth Central School to Farncombe, and remember sitting on the floor in a large hall waiting for someone to 'adopt' me. Eventually, I ...Read more

A memory of Farncombe in 1940 by Ronald Waller

I have been renting a property in Beaucroft Road, Waltham Chase for just over a year. I always knew my family came from Southampton and we always assumed all past generations did as well until a cousin of mine ...Read more

A memory of Waltham Chase