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My parents and I moved into 1 Sherborne villas just before the war started. Father worked at bickers and I clearly remember the German planes when they bombed the factory. I went to the village school which, for a while we shared with ...Read more

A memory of New Haw by john

Bramley In The Years 1951 To 1967 A conversation with Lynden Flint From: john.holliday11@btopenworld.com To: Lynden Flint Hi Lynden. I do hope you are well and still ...Read more

A memory of Bramley by john.holliday11

In the 1960's my grandmother owned what I always new as Lennard house it was a huge place that my parents told me used to be the dower house to the Belhus House and and my uncles attempted to dig out a tunnel that ran between the ...Read more

A memory of Aveley by joyofworship

I was supposed to have been born at the Green.. ended up being at Tynemouth... So I missed out on a commemorative silver spoon given to kids born in wallsend on the day the Queen Mother visited Wallsend.. 1.10.1954.. My family lived at ...Read more

A memory of Wallsend by e.cotcher99

We moved to Watford in 1943. My war time memories are of night after night in the shelters, the "doodle bugs" and the boys playing Germans and soldiers on the bomb site next door. My special memories are of Cassiobury Park where we used to ...Read more

A memory of Watford by jmndavies

Hi - I have just discovered this site and was interested by memories of Selsdon - particularly from Jaqueline Cook remembering Littleheath Woods! I spent the first eighteen years of my life living in Ingham Road -the other side of the ...Read more

A memory of Selsdon by philmunton48

Born in Hardwick Hall Sedgefield During the war '42. Brought up in old West before Owton Manor est etc. Remember walking the streets during war with Mum after air raid sirens etc. and standing in queues with our ration coupons for ...Read more

A memory of Hartlepool by kiwa170642

I lived at number 42 Elmsleigh Road from 1947 until about 1963.My pals and I played in the street in safety as there were few cars. We played "tin can tommy" and "cannon" otherwise we were on Wandsworth Common climbing ...Read more

A memory of Wandsworth by notreavenir

If anyone has pictures of the above I would be very interested,as I was born at that address when my mother was evacuated there from the Coventry bombings in 1941.Fred Dawson was my dads cousin. Thanks Malcolm Croft

A memory of Worksop by mjrcroft

The gentleman in this photo is my grandfather Mr James William Arthur Reffold late of the Pump house that lays to his left behind the shop.the horses name is Jimmy he was a large ginger horse. I lived in Shackleford through ...Read more

A memory of Shackleford by dreffold