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My mum was born in Battersea, I know she lived at 9 Surrey Lane, Battersea, I am not sure where she was born, I think it was in Wandsworth. Her name was Dorothey Camp, born in 1923, her father was William (Bill) Camp, her mother was Beatrice ...Read more

A memory of Battersea in 1920 by Marilyn Heath

I lived in Crossgates and my first school was also Mossgreen. The headmaster was Mr Burgess and the teachers were Miss Taylor, Miss Curry and Miss Mitchell. My brothers and I have many happy memories of Crossgates, exploring the Taft and the Bulwark.

A memory of Crossgates in 1920

My grandparents lived in Colerne, my mother Minnie Louise Rowe was born there around the 1880s and my father William Simpkins lived in Colerne with the Aust family from when he was a baby. I was born in Bath in Kingsmead Road in a ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1920 by Edgar Simpkins

Frys former chocolate factory once stood in the Union Street/Pithay area (later moved production to Somerdale Keynsham). J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd merged their financial interests with Cadbury in 1919. The earliest records of ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1920 by Paul Townsend

My grandfather died in Worksop on March 23 1923. He was married to Dorothy, nee Walker, and they had 2 daughters and an expected child. He was 33 years old, had served in France during the First World War. I am trying to locate any ...Read more

A memory of Worksop in 1920 by Jane Baxley

My grandfather was a footman at Selsdon Park in 1919, when he married my grandmother. I would love to know more about Selsdon Park in the 1920s, but all I can find out is after it was turned into a golf course. Can anyone help me find out the history of  this lovely old house? Betty.

A memory of Selsdon in 1920 by Betty Shaw

My mother, Thelma Hill, and her brother Ken were born in Gleave Road, Selly Oak. They used to play down one end called (I think) "the pudding bag". My mum went to St Mary's School and her brother (at aged 11 years) to St Wulstuns. Mum used ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1920 by Sheila Mc Kinstry

I want to know the names of the schools that children went to in the Treforest area.

A memory of Treforest Industrial Estate in 1920 by Jackueline Pearson

My grandfather Robert John Roberts, born 1895, joined The Ynysddu Crusaders. When I came to visit from Portsmouth, he took me to watch them play. My father Donald Keith Roberts played football, bowls and cricket. He would be very ...Read more

A memory of Ynysddu in 1920 by Elaine Flemons