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I am a retired police officer who has been studying the family history of both my family and that of my wife, Jenifer Cooper. I am trying to trace relatives of the family and hope that someone may just know something of the ...Read more

A memory of Blaengarw in 1930 by Colin Clarke

My family have been on Bute for many hundreds of years but I was born in South Wales...Dad was a master Mariner and died in 1935. I have written a description of boyhood on Bute through the War and this is in the Bute Sons and ...Read more

A memory of Rothesay in 1930 by John Mackay

One of my first memories was hiding underneath the sideboard in the dining room with silver ornaments on our heads; my sisters Judy, baby Michele and myself, Deirdre, listening ...Read more

A memory of Holywood in 1930 by Deirdre Sarnitz

I was born at 8 Islwyn Terrace and have fond memories of Pontllanfraith. Playing up the Tumpee with my brother Lynn Lewis and the freedom we had as children roaming the hills before the council estate was built. ...Read more

A memory of Pontllanfraith in 1930 by Mary Miller Thomas

The building in the corner was Brighton Teacher Training College. The building at right angles in the distance was a hotel. My mother Florence Starkey was studying in the Teacher Training College top floor and looked out of ...Read more

A memory of Brighton in 1930 by Wolstan Dixie