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John Joseph Granter b.1887 moved to Upton in 1925. He owned a bus or coach company and also land and farms near Rossington. I can find no record of his businesses or what happened to them. One or two relatives of whom I'm aware still live in the area. Someone may know or even remember more ...

A memory of Upton in 1920

My grandparents who lived in London bought Stoneleigh in 1926 and this is where my grandmother lived during WWII away from the bombing in the city. My grandfather, mother and her foster brother would come ...Read more

A memory of Worth Matravers in 1920 by Sarah Smith

I have just started to trace my family tree and found that my mother was born in the pub in Patrington market place in the year 1922. The family name being Melbourne. Does anybody have any memories of the people who owned that pub around ...Read more

A memory of Patrington in 1920 by Chris Chapman

I am descended from Robert Lovegreen, a shoemaker in Framwellgate.  The Lovegreen family, and subsequently the Loftus family (Martin Loftus having married Margaret Lovegreen) ran the rowing boat ferry across the ...Read more

A memory of Durham in 1920 by Cathy Armstrong

I was born in Whalley, in the second cottage opposite the Catholic Church in the Sands, in December 1924. Next door to us was Mr Sutton who was well known around Whalley for his ice cream. He used to stand outside the abbey ...Read more

A memory of Whalley in 1920 by Trevor Williams

I was born in Kilburn in Plympton Road on 2nd May 1928 and went to school at Christ Church School and then Salisbury Road School. What a lovely place Kilburn was in those days with the iron railings and gates on every ...Read more

A memory of Kilburn in 1920 by William Bowling

Who was Muriel Alexander? I have a scrapbook that she put together after the 1st World World. I think she was very much involved with organising trips to visit war graves and monuments for families of the fallen. Would be very ...Read more

A memory of Boldre in 1920 by Kathleen Scriven

I have this photograph on the wall as it reminds me of my dad, Arthur Edward Elson. He was born in Mill Lane in 1914 and worked as a 'butcher's boy' for Baldwin's which is just visible on the right of the photo. He delivered meat ...Read more

A memory of Ewell in 1920 by Patricia Howard

my husband john and myself recently visited warnham church and surrounding area's especially to find the graves of some ancestors (i am doing my family tree!) and found the graves of george street, and several others, ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1920 by Sandra Baldwin

My Grandma, Joan Atkinson, was born at Linton-on Ouse in 1927. Her father was the lock keeper there for a number of years and the family lived in the house in the photograph. Joan was the eldest of four children, three of ...Read more

A memory of Linton-on-Ouse in 1920 by Ross Galbraith