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My memory and the memory of my 2 sisters was horrendous, it was like consentration camp. They would force you to eat dinners you did not like and if you didn't eat it you would be made to sit all night on the floor no covers ...Read more

A memory of Fornethy Residential School by donnastafford77

We moved to Watford in 1943. My war time memories are of night after night in the shelters, the "doodle bugs" and the boys playing Germans and soldiers on the bomb site next door. My special memories are of Cassiobury Park where we used to ...Read more

A memory of Watford by jmndavies

My parents over the years owned 3 caravans. They were on howisons/Robinson's caravan site(now Whitehouse's leisure) We spent every weekend and every holiday there. Lots of lovely friends there..my dad played the organ in the camp ...Read more

A memory of Towyn by byvonne91

I was there January 1957 to December 1958 so got demobbed 60 years ago next month. Anyone else still around?

A memory of Blandford Camp by Peter Pennington

I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more

A memory of Harlow by bernard.hagon

Dad was at Hadrian's camp with the East Lancs. in the late 40's. we lived there & my sister was born in Carlisle in 1949. we also lived for a while in Moss Band. I dont know if there was an army camp there I was just a toddler. We emigrated to Australia on 1953

A memory of Calmore by davlin46

The gentleman in this photo is my grandfather Mr James William Arthur Reffold late of the Pump house that lays to his left behind the shop.the horses name is Jimmy he was a large ginger horse. I lived in Shackleford through ...Read more

A memory of Shackleford by dreffold

Went to St George’s school, had a best friend called Jennifer - she was always happy and laughing, but dippy - loved her, wish I could find her now, can’t remember her surname. So the school is still there but nothing ...Read more

A memory of Battersea

our family lived in the huts at cross keys militia camp for around 10 yrs or more.yet nothing much is revealed in the history of roxwell about these camps.the cross keys camp housed homeless families till it was closed down.yet ...Read more

A memory of Roxwell by fraxinus10a1

This goes back a long way, I think around 1950. I was a pupil at King's School in Rochester and used to live just off Brompton Farm Road. My parents used to allow me to sleep in the garden (an adventure ?), I ...Read more

A memory of Gadshill by Nigel Hinton