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My family moved to Bishton in 1945 when my father began working at Bishton Signal Box. Because of the returning soldiers, few houses were available in the Newport area so we settled at Bank Cottage, Bishton. The cottage ...Read more

A memory of Bishton in 1945 by Bob Stinchcombe

I was four years old when our family moved from Liverpool to squat in one of the army huts. I remember it very well, and the German prisoners of war who made such a fuss of us children. We had ...Read more

A memory of Stanford-le-Hope in 1946 by Irene Lewsey

I remember 'guddling' for trout in the Teal Burn in Auchtertool.  Most of the lads in the village tried it at one time or another. When we caught one we would measure it by placing the nose of the trout on our finger ...Read more

A memory of Auchtertool in 1946 by Harry Robertson

My dad Ronald Peel was born in 1932 in Wheatley Hill. He lived in Burns Street and he had a brother Tom and two sisters, Florence and Mary. My dad stayed in Wheatley Hill till about 1954, he married ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley Hill in 1946 by Deborah Farrow

I was stationed at Bordon Fire Station and was a Corporal in the army. I have many photos taken at the station, I was in charge of the cook-house and was in charge of the bar on the station. I attended many fires - the ...Read more

A memory of Bordon in 1946 by Laurence Brocklesby

I was born in Harbour Street in 1946 then in 1948; moved to one of the new houses built post war (22 Louden Place). I remember well all the families; Herries, Cronnie, Cowan, Eadie, Hughes, Parker, McCallum, Brown, ...Read more

A memory of Creetown in 1946 by Janice Maxwell

I was born at 22 Victoria Street, Harthill and went to Harthill Primary School. I lived with my mum, Mary Carson, and grannie and grandad Margaret and Jimmy Carson until we left for England about 1954-55. I ...Read more

A memory of Harthill in 1947 by Catherine Foster

We moved to Bromley Cross about 1947 just before my sister Virginia was born, it was a lovely new prefab, but I don't remember much about the inside of it apart from the wood-burning stove, that sticks in my mind for some ...Read more

A memory of Bromley Cross in 1947 by Julie Christo

I moved to Spencer Avenue, Hayes, when I was 5 and the war had just finished. My earliest recollections were of starting school at Yeading Lane and walking there through thick snow. Luckily we had school dinners so ...Read more

A memory of Hayes in 1947 by Doreen Walton

After the Second World War and during the austere period of rationing, among the items that were in short supply was coal. People would burn anything in order to keep warm, and many were the trips that I ...Read more

A memory of Intake in 1947 by Frank Mowforth