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My father, Dr Joe Hampson, was the Gp in Gilfach in the late 1930s/early 1940s. He was Irish and born in Lucan just outside Dublin. He qualified from the College of Surgeons in 1932. He met my mother, Frances Pugsley, ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1940 by Aidan Hampson

Does anyone remember the Cuthbert family who lived at number 9 Morland Avenue, Dartford? Mrs Cuthbert was killed by a V1 bomb in 1944. Thanks, Clive Jeffrey

A memory of Dartford in 1942 by Clive Jeffrey

I lived in Hamilton Road from 1940 until approx 1958. (my name then was Mortlock) I went to Ealing Road School and then Brentford Secondary Modern. I remember the air raid shelter at the top of Hamilton Road and hearing the sirens and ...Read more

A memory of Brentford in 1940 by Brenda Bostock

My grandparents Tom & Minnie Croucher lived at Cross Cottage (between Stibb and Kilk), their youngest son Derek married Jette after meeting her during the war in Denmark. They lived at 21 North Close Estate for ...Read more

A memory of Kilkhampton by Dawn Burley

I well remember being 'evacuated' by my parents to live for a while with my Aunt Elsie, and Uncle Percy Locker, after our family were 'bombed out' of our home in Hertfordshire. They lived at 87, Harwill Crescent Aspley, with ...Read more

A memory of Nottingham in 1942 by Margaret Mosley

In our early teens we used to go to the Nell Gwynne, upstairs in the 'coffee bar' where we had what I believe was the worlds first Nickelodeon (manual version). We paid the lady 3d, I think it was, and she put our favourite record on ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 1950 by Brian Robinson

I was born in May 1945, in Green Street Green - Highfield Avenue, and moved to Woodside, Chelsfield in 1949. I lived there until I married in 1966, so I have clear memories of Crown Road. Two roads led off Warren Road up to Crown Road, ...Read more

A memory of Chelsfield in 1945 by Sandra Viner

Does anybody remember going to Saint Saviour's School? If so, do you remember carrying your little chair up to the church hall in The Grove every week for a church service? I think it was on a Wednesday, as our church had been ...Read more

A memory of Ealing in 1953 by Doreen Grant

I, along with my three brothers and two sisters was brought up in Combe Fishacre House from 1965 to about 1988. My father lived there with his Aunt and Uncle (Neville and Anne Parry) who bought ...Read more

A memory of Coombe by Gillie Turner.

The view is looking over Holborn Hill towards Black Combe. Holborn Hill is old Millom, the new part of Millom was built when iron ore was discovered in 1855 at Hodbarrow and the iron works was built and Hodbarrow mines ...Read more

A memory of Millom in 1940 by Ian Jordison