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The building on the right of the picture is Hope Congregational Church (at one time known as Hope Chapel). Next to it, behind the trees, is the old Sunday School which was part of the church. In the middle distance is the old Denton ...Read more

A memory of Denton in 1930 by Bob Wagstaff

I took part in a Salford Pageant, part of a dancing troop performing D' ye ken John Peel. I also remember the Black Americans being garrisoned on the same Race course and I couldn't understand why, they were very polite and ...Read more

A memory of Salford in 1930

I was born at 1 Donaldson Road. My dad was John White a marvelous singer, he worked at Haigs Distillery, Cameron Bridge for 46 years. My elder brother was Ron White. I played in the Methillhill Pipe Band in 1946, with Pipe Major ...Read more

A memory of Methilhill in 1930 by Doog White

Went to live in Crook: Rosedean, West Road, in 1937. Everybody spoke a foreign language even though I came from only a few miles away, Northallerton. Or maybe I was the one who spoke a strange tongue. Many happy memories of playing on the ...Read more

A memory of Crook in 1930 by Ernest Hall

My mother died recently aged 89 in South Africa. I am currently writing an article on her life and have discovered from her brother that she passed her 11 plus exams to enter Romford County High School in 1933/34. She ...Read more

A memory of Romford in 1930 by Moira Rowan

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 ...Read more

A memory of Pontllanfraith in 1930 by Mary Miller Thomas

My father came up from Wales to work at Blenheim as a youngster.He was born in 1922 and he started work as a teenager, I think. His first name was Edward, but as there was another already in post, so they ...Read more

A memory of Woodstock in 1930

I went to NGS in 1939. It was a great school. Those school dinners cooked on site by Annie the cook and the smell coming up the corridor about 11o'clock. I remember when they started building the air raid shelters at the ...Read more

A memory of Earlestown in 1930 by William Smith

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 ...Read more

A memory of High Legh in 1930 by Liz Whitelegg

I was born in Gas Lane, Blaydon in a house on the banks of the Tyne, next to the Black Bull Pub. I spent the first five years of my life on our small-holding on Summerhill, where we had chickens, horses and pigs. I have happy ...Read more

A memory of Blaydon in 1930