Hi Margaret,
Welcome to the forum, I wasn't born until 1947 so I have no personal memories of the war years or just after the war. Not even of the winter of 1947 the year I was born, though housing was still short in the 50's when my sister and brother and myself with my mother moved into a one down and two up back to back house in Nechells.
At the time I suppose my mother was glad of it, though I don't suppose she thought how many of us would be living in it 10 years later.
Anyway settle in and read some of the memories recorded here, I'm sure you will enjoy them.