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I was born in Thorpe Coombe Hospital in 1941 and grew up in Erskine Road Walthamstow which led on to Walthamstow Market. My brother Barry and I would be given a threepenny bit piece by our granddad who lived with our ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1940 by Maureen Shanks

My first school was Botany; now a house. Children from the local villages went to Botany School until they reached the age of ten, then to Chedworth School. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Calcot in 1940 by Dorothy Lawrence

The black and white half-timbered building in the photograph was The Gable House, owned by my late grandmother, Nancy Hawkes and her sister, Hilda Cook. The house was run as a short-term residential home for patients staying ...Read more

A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1940 by David Hawkes

I lived in Medway Road from 1934-1956. I also remember the doodle bugs (as did Gordon Savage, I remember him), the dockyard heavy guns, and school. I was due to start school on the day war started and finally went to ...Read more

A memory of Gillingham in 1940 by Joan Lemar

I grew up in and lived in Bensham for the first 26 years of my life, albeit the last 5 of those years were spent in the Merchant Navy as a sea-going engineer. My first school was Chester Place School which was across the road from ...Read more

A memory of Gateshead in 1940 by Noel Kelly

Hi Fellow Evacuee! My mother and 6 brothers and sisters were evacuated to Gilfach Goch from South London. I was aged 7 when we first arrived. We were separated into different families. I stayed with my mum, at Mrs John, who we all ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1940 by Martin Jordan

I was born in Colindale in 1937 living in Sheaveshill Ave. We had an Anderson shelter in the back garden in which I would sleep all night when bombing was bad, it was easier than getting me up when the sirens started at ...Read more

A memory of Colindale in 1940 by Jack Luxon

I was born and brought up in the Milton. Lived at 2 Milton Rows. I can remember going to Crossshill School. Miss Foote and Miss Page were two of the teachers. I remember well the Miners Galas, the potato picking, and ...Read more

A memory of Crosshill in 1940 by Anne Wright

I was a pupil at Christ's Hospital School in Horsham which is nearby to Southwater. We had a school outing to GREATHOUSE FARM in Southwater to see the cows milked and the process it went through before we saw it ...Read more

A memory of Southwater in 1940 by Brian Haynes

It was a warm sunny morning and I was lying in bed in Minster Road. I heard a 'doodlebug' putter overhead, I heard the motor stop, silence... and then the explosion. I swear the blast lifted me off the bed - half a mile away! What I ...Read more

A memory of Godalming in 1940 by Paul May