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My grandparents, Arthur Andrew Rush & Lilian Maud Rush 9nee Sayers0 had this pub, The Ship Inn, from 1940 -1955. They had two daughters, my Mother, Lilian Beatrice Gough (nee Rush) & Gladys Barker (nee ...Read more

A memory of Aveley in 1940 by Peter Gough

I worked in the old CAD room at Tooting Police Station in 2006, it was an amazing place with bomb proof windows. We worked through the night; on my first night there was a gang fight and a youth got ...Read more

A memory of Tooting by Alice Frances

After we were bombed out in London my parents bought a house in Romford, Essex. My father was working for the Ford Motor Company that had converted its assembly lines to manufacture Bren gun carriers and other war time ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1940 by Ray Tricker

I grew up in Stowmarket (Combs Ford end!). I remember Milton Road, etc, before the Relief Road cut the town in half! Saturdays used to see the town centre heaving with people - cars came through the main street ...Read more

A memory of Stowmarket by Karen Dack

I have fond memories of Winchmore Hill where I was born in 1937. We lived in Hadley Way till about 1949, then moved to Slades Hill in Enfield. I went to St Pauls School (Mr Gayler) then Minchenden. I well remember The Intimate ...Read more

A memory of Winchmore Hill

I was 9 in 1965 and lived in Milton Road on the Poets Corner Estate in Welling. We used to play out in the street all the time or over the field in Keats Road which had a large bomb crater and this would be a meeting point for us ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1965 by Patricia Jeffrey

I was born in 1930 at Rhydyfelin but moved to 37/38 Trehafod Road during 1931 and 1932 via Llwyncelyn. Both my father and grandfather worked at the colliery for a number of years. My grandfather, George Richards, ...Read more

A memory of Trehafod in 1930 by Allen Richards

July 19th 2012 Vancouver Canada Oh ! My god what a shock I was evacuated to Horningsham in 1941 to live with my mother's aunt Jessie and her husband Billy. He had been gassed in WW1 and worked on the Longleat Estate as a ...Read more

A memory of Horningsham in 1941 by John May

I was born in Northern Ireland and lived in Belfast. One night the German Lufwaffa bombed Belfast - there were 1000 or more were killed that night. I and my brothers and sisters were evacuated to my home town in Lurgan in Co Armagh. ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1942 by Andrew Toland

So! Back to 11 Woburn Place, back to school on Hope Chapel Hill back to Hotwells golden mile with its 15 pubs. The War was still going on but there was only limited bombing and some daylight raids, the city was in a dreadful ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1945 by Arthur Cottrell