Voices of Kingstanding
25 published memories in War Years from the 1940s.
Margaret Crompton · 1940s · Kingstanding
Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2011, Margaret Crompton describes joining the Land Army and the air raids on Kingstanding during the Second World War.
Read the full memory: Margaret Crompton: the Land Army and the air raidsHarry Felton · 1940s · Warren Farm Road
I remember the Home and Colonial and queuing up there for eggs that were off ration I think they named them ‘off priority’ and we were allowed 6.
Read the full memory: The Home and Colonial, off-ration eggs and a club built by whip-roundRobert Surch · 1940s · Kingstanding Road
I was born on the 21st February 1941, and lived on Kingstanding Road. We had an Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden next to a large oak tree.
Read the full memory: Vegetables on the roofRichard Wall · 1940s · Kingstanding
In 1939 I was with my parents on holiday,staying with my uncle and aunt in Liverpool.I remember waving to my father as the train pulled out of the station.
Read the full memory: Guarding the telephone box, September 1939Allan Rooke · 1940s · An air raid shelter
This tale is what I was told many years later, I was just too young at the time.
Read the full memory: Held upside down in the shelterPeter Noden · 1940s · Kings Road Methodist Church
When coke for the boiler was delivered it was dropped against the wooden fence bordering our house.
Read the full memory: Coke through the fenceAlan Hitchman · 1940s · Atlantic Road
Myself and two sisters lived in Atlantic road Kingstanding, it ran between Dyas road and Old Oscott lane, the house had two small living rooms downstairs and a very small kitchen, there were big…
Read the full memory: Licking pennies on the windowRichard Wall · 1940s · Hawthorn Road shops
My most lasting memory of the Hawthorn Rd shopping area is of the Static Water Tank that stood on the corner Kingstanding / Dyas Rd it must have been about 6/7 feet high and probably 10 yds…
Read the full memory: The static water tank and the Bon BonJohn Dunn · 1940s · Hare and Hounds, Kingstanding Road
I remember going into the H/H climbing over the fence on to that shed and scrumping apples.I also recall during the war the american soldiers ( the Yanks ) sitting all along the wall outside the…
Read the full memory: Fish and chips for the YanksJohn E Rowley · 1940s · Pheasey estate and the Circle
I remember the US military at the Pheasey Estate very well. The entrance in to the camp was on the right side of The Trees pub.
Read the full memory: ‘Got any gum, chum?’Lawrence Addison · 1940s · Hurlingham Road and Dulwich Road
I also remember the bomb in Hurlingham Rd. Actually it was a 500 lb land mine and it landed in the middle of the street destroying 3 houses on each side.
Read the full memory: The land mine on Hurlingham RoadRichard Wall · 1940s · Cranbourne Road Infants School
I first went to Cranbourne Rd Infants School in 1942, my mother took me, as my father was in the army in the Far East, I did not see him until I was eight years old, when he came home at the end…
Read the full memory: Marche Militaire and the big bass drum