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My family lived at No 3 (the top flat), Corner House, at the top end of Broad Street, first on the left looking at the photo (but just out of the picture) for many years from 1947 or so. I ...Read more

A memory of New Alresford in 1947 by John Dear

At a guess! My visits to Shepton mallet were infrequent as I lived near Bristol as a child. But loved coming to see my Grandmother at no 1 Barren Down (mrs E A Crook)A school was at the back of her house, I ...Read more

A memory of Shepton Mallet in 1947

I attended this school, on and off during the war years as my father Bill Morgan, was frequently posted around the country, and I would end up with my grandparents, the Eldridges who lived at West House. My ...Read more

A memory of Great Somerford in 1943 by Keith Morgan

I was born in Dilston Nursing Home in May 1942. My uncle lived at Dilston House which is now luxury self-catering accommodation. We returned many times during the 1940s and 1950s and I remember wading at the edge of the Devils Water.

A memory of Corbridge in 1942 by Chris Duckworth

69 years ago I remember my father going to war. Many tears. He was in the RAF and was sent to Topcliffe and Dalton. He was occasionally based at then Skelfield School. He made a lot of friends in Rainton. They ...Read more

A memory of Rainton in 1942

This is not a memory but if anyone has any information about the Eaton Hall Emergency Maternity Hospital, Eaton Road, East Retford, Notts, I would be very grateful to hear from ...Read more

A memory of Eaton in 1940 by Margaret Reynolds

I was born in a little cottage in Whetstone in 1938, just across the road from the brook. When it rained it used to flood all the bottom end of the village, and when the buses went through the floods, the ...Read more

A memory of Whetstone in 1940 by Colin Munton

I was born in Abbey Road 1935 and I can remember air raid shelters being delivered by horse and cart, was it Carter Pattison? That name rings a bell. I can remember going out into the road after an air raid to ...Read more

A memory of Croydon in 1930 by John Knapp

I was born in 1930 and lived in Ashton till 1951. Attended schools at St James, St Michaels, and Christ Church Central. I see Harry Henshaw is mentioned, there was also Jack Higginson. The Headmaster was Mr Siddal and ...Read more

A memory of Ashton in 1930 by James Moss

My parents, who came to England from India in 1955, when I was 3 months old, moved to Southall in 1959, from Whitton, when I was 4. I remember Southall Broadway at that time-there was actually a saddlery business there! C. ...Read more

A memory of Southall by Sandya Narayanswami