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My relatives ran the water cress beds (do they still exist?) & I clearly recall there house had a small pond outside, & I used to watch sand flees jumping when I poked them. The day I rememember most ...Read more

A memory of Nutbourne in 1930 by Stanley Chandler

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 - ...Read more

A memory of Gretna in 1930 by Dave Whitfield

Some years ago I bought an old book at Greenwich Market. The book carries an inscription to "Sybil Shillabeer from the Chisledon Wesleyan Sunday School May 1931". It is a childrens book entitled The Golden Cushion Story Book ...Read more

A memory of Chiseldon in 1930 by Agnes Harvey

I was born on 9.2.1922 son of Henry Gowland Hind and Eliza Hind of 28, Thames Street. Henry worked at Chopwell Pit. I attended primary school at Chopwell from 1927 until 1930, followed by Chopwell West Council ...Read more

A memory of Chopwell in 1930 by Peter Kirk

Does anyone have any memories, historical pictures or information regarding the area of Camberley known as Kings Ride and College Ride?

A memory of Camberley in 1930

As a very young lad I lived on Ankerdine Crescent on Shooter's Hill, but Mum frequently took me down to Woolwich for shopping on the market. I can clearly remember a butcher's stall close to Powis Street where ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1930 by Barry W J Chandler

My grandparents and great-uncle and aunt lived and worked at Parc-y-Felin farm in the 1930s. My mother and her sister went St Fagans school. Although the farm was demolished in the early 1960s the farm cottage still ...Read more

A memory of St Fagans in 1930

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

I, too, am researching my family history. My mother's cousin, Annie Holdstock, nee Kingsnorth, was a teacher at Throwley when she met her husband, Horace in the late 20s. The Holdsock family lived ...Read more

A memory of Throwley in 1930

I lived at Salt Lake Cottages with my parents Stan and Elsie Simpson. Dad was a signalman on the railway. I was very young at the time and had moved from Rycroft at Newby, where I was born. I spent my summer ...Read more

A memory of Chapel-le-Dale in 1930 by Lilian Bell