Betty Gordon

For Betty Gordon, born in London’s East End a month after World War II broke out, the austerity of rationing was broken for two heavenly weeks in the summers of 1948 and 1949 by a feast of gl [...]   full story

Edith Walker

If it had not been for the chance of being a bridesmaid, Edith Walker would have spent her first CCHF holiday in 1930 in Grays, Essex - just a few miles away from where she lives now.

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Stella James

Stella James, took her first CCHF holiday aged 7. Now a young grandmother of 40, she always remebers her holidays with the Rew family in Brentwood, Essex.  “It was very rural back in the [...]   full story

Colleen Wilson

“I was born in Bethnal Green in the East End in 1936 and moved to South London where most of my [...]   full story

Yvonne Knowles

“I was born on the 22nd January 1953full story

Doris Brown Redgate

Doris was born in Acton, west London, in 1927 to a poor family, and never knew “such wonderful things as the beautiful Devonshire countrysi [...]   full story

Barabara Buckingham Stewart

“I had three CCHF holidays, starting in 1949, and my sister, Molly, two years younger, went wit [...]   full story

Ellen Green

“I was born in 1928 and lived at the Angel Islington with my grandmother, father and sister. My [...]   full story

Charles Green

I was never lucky enough to go on a holiday. I am just 81 and as a small boy lived in Stepney, East L [...]   full story