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I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago. As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1930 by Alan Lloyd

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from age ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

Hi, I am just wondering if anyone, anyone at all, remembers a lady called Joan or Lucy Clarke, born about 1921? Her mother was called Elsie May Clarke (as far as I know), I don't know Joan's father's full name... I know Joan was ...Read more

A memory of Chinley in 1930 by Christine Clarke

I came to live at Leadgate when I was 12 years old and attended Leadgate Council School which was a large red brick building for infants and juniors, boys and girls. I was at the school for only 2 years, ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1930 by Wilf Wallace

In the row of cottages on Pill Creek mentioned by Malcolm Macmeikan lived "old Searle" who built small boats in a shed on the quay on the opposite side of the creek. At age 11 or 12, I painted one of them, a rowing boat called ...Read more

A memory of Feock in 1930 by Philip Woodward

I lived in old Denaby from 1938-1967.I attended the village School The teacher was Mrs Barber Sharply I lived in a Bungalow called Brantwood next door to the vjllage shop a wooden hut. The school was also the Church ,I ...Read more

A memory of Old Denaby in 1930 by Patricia Bowmanneesinclair

My earliest memories are of the married quarters, well into the interior of the barracks of the Dorset Regiment. My father had escaped the poverty of the East End of London in 1923. By 1937 he was a ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1930 by Peter Giles

'The Stream' ! We always have called it 'the brook' - Broughton Brook, and still do. However, the brook is in fact a tributary to the River Soar, it may in fact actually be the River Soar but simply not ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

My mum went to High Legh school in the 1930's and my grandfather and siblings went there in the 1910's. Her name was Doreen Burgess and her father was Percy Burgess. As a child he lived at Oak Tree Farm and later ...Read more

A memory of High Legh in 1930 by Liz Whitelegg

I was born at Kirktpatrick Fleming on April 29th 1936 at the old transport cafe where there was a cottage and petrol filling pumps on the site, a butchers shop was next door, a barbers shop was on the opposite side of the road - my ...Read more

A memory of Gretna in 1930 by Dave Whitfield