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My parents, younger brother and I moved to Tidworth in 1938 when I was 3 and my brother 1 year old. I was born in Collingbourne Ducis and we spent a very short time in Ludgershall but, as I understand it, the new council ...Read more

A memory of Tidworth in 1940 by Paul Vivash

I was in Heswall Hospital a number of times in the late forties, suffering from Bronchiectasis. I always went into Hugh Owen Thomas ward. It was a long ward seperated by sliding doors, the girls one end, ...Read more

A memory of Heswall by Maureen Alcock Nee Woods

As a family we lived at two different addresses in Titley. My father was gamekeeper for General Greenley at Titley Court and we lived in a detached house behind the main house. There was a lake and a deer park further down from ...Read more

A memory of Titley

I lived in Stedham from the time I was born in 1944 until I left to get married in 1968. I lived at 36 Tye Hill with my mother and grandmother until the war finished and my father came home. I remember my mother ...Read more

A memory of Stedham in 1960 by Michael Bosworth

My earliest memory of 'The Yard', as everyone called it, was 1953 when the Queen sailed up the Thames on her return from her Commonwealth Tour (I think) just after her Coronation. I remember waving my Union Jack. My grandad was there ...Read more

A memory of Purfleet in 1953 by Susan Mitchell

February 28th 1977 was the day my son David Guy Norfolk was born here. It was rather unexpected - some three weeks early and luckily my wife Elizabeth had been admitted a day earlier because ...Read more

A memory of Bellshill in 1977 by John Howard Norfolk

My father was Rev R G Cowie, who was before Rev Reece Jones. We came to North Somercotes in 1939 from Newcastle and I had an idyllic childhood in the vicarage. I remember a bomb fell in South Somercotes, I also remember ...Read more

A memory of Saltfleet by Elizabeth Bellamy

I was born in the Princess Beatrice Hospital on 22nd Jan 1950. It is very strange seeing my birth place for the very first time (today - 10th Aug 2012). I don't know what happened to me immediately after my birth but 6 months later I was adopted.

A memory of London in 1950

The Blitz started with the Sirens wailing in the early evenings, to warn of the approach of enemy planes. Then complete silence for quite a long time as we waited with mounting apprehension in the passage way, mother, myself, Dennis and David ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1940 by Arthur Cottrell

My great-grandparents were William Gordon Stuart and Sarah Anne (Miller) Stuart. They moved to Tininver House, Dufftown in 1887. William was in the British military for over 37 years and had just retired. He was stationed in Ireland ...Read more

A memory of Dufftown in 1890 by Pamela Stuart