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Hello, my dad told me about that landmine and when he had to carry his little brother, Owen, downstairs when a bomb went off nearby. The family were the Ansons. Mother, Violet, dad, Lawrence Augustus and by the ...Read more

A memory of North End in 1930 by Kathryn Anson

My grandparents ran the Chocolate Box in Frimley Road, Camberley (now Camberley Kitchen Studios) and I spent my early life there after my parents' marriage broke down. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Camberley in 1963 by Bernadette Mahoney

My grandfather CE (Charles) Fox was the lieutenant for the home guard at Hill Ridware (based behind the Bull & Specs - a good spot!). I remember long ago seeing his army Webley revolver holster as a child - its been lost over ...Read more

A memory of Hill Ridware in 1940 by Nigel Fox

David Kemp’s item about Fenham brought back some great memories for me. In the 1940s and early 50s, I lived in Robsheugh Place, round the corner from Ovington Grove. Now I live by the beach in Western Australia, where ...Read more

A memory of Fenham in 1940

My mum Mary Booth, worked at the cinema around the above date - I have a photo of her dressed up from the film 'Annie Get Your Gun', selling tickets outside. I went to Eccles Parish School in 1958/9 until I left in 1963/4. I ...Read more

A memory of Eccles in 1950 by Sandra Booth Warburton Sjcdt

I was born in Church Street in 1940, next to the Fox & Duck public house. I went to Layston School, Mrs Skipp was head teacher. I played for the Fords in the early 60s. Mrs Mayes kept the shop opposite. The butcher shops in those ...Read more

A memory of Buntingford in 1940 by Nick Crane

I was born in Salford, but in 1936. My grandparents lived in a street just off Regent Road called Comus Street. My grandfather was in charge of a factory that made tallow and soap. I worked early in my life at Hope Hospital and did ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1950 by Jack Boon

My mother and father (Mary Mould and James Davies) were married at Aspenden church in the early 1950's. From the late 1950's until 1976 I used to live at Maryland in Baldock Road. I had a wonderful wedding day on 12th June 1976 at ...Read more

A memory of Aspenden in 1976 by Mary Collins

I have remembered some of my old mates from the homes, in home 8 they were: Frederic Smith, Ray Cooke, Tim Farrow, Philip and Eddy Atter, John and Willy Dobbs, Raymond Boucher who was deaf and dumb, Cedric Harrison, Pete Hewson, ...Read more

A memory of Horncastle in 1958 by Kenneth Marris

I too remember playing by the River Mole; great excitement when we found what we thought was a dead scorpion on the riverbank. When they we building the Three Bridges estate, they had a narrow gauge railway for moving ...Read more

A memory of Crawley by David Randall