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Born in Meeting House Lane in 1931 Brant Broughton; we soon moved into the big old house that used to be the old Hall House. This house is in Main Street and it was opposite my uncle's fish and chip shop. My dad, was George ...Read more

A memory of Brant Broughton in 1930 by Derrick Pailing

I was born in 1937 and lived in Hilgay until 1949. I think I had an idyllic early childhood living in Hilgay. So many memories of swimming in the river in summer. Shopping for a new dress at "Auntie" Barbara Dent's little shop to wear ...Read more

A memory of Hilgay in 1930 by Freida Wright

My birth certificate 1938 says Roseneath; father was a gardner on the estate and have photos of the estate cottage. Also pictures of reputedly oldest trees in Scotland called Adam and Eve, probably long chopped down as castle. Prince ...Read more

A memory of Rosneath in 1930 by William Hair

I am now in my mid 80's. I lived in Borth from the age of about three until eleven years at 23 Well St (Lon Wen). This was during the days of the depression and conditions in the port were grim. Many of the men had joined the whaling ...Read more

A memory of Amlwch in 1930 by Robert Jones

I was born on the 5th February 1930 in the cottage known as Sunnyside, Little Polgooth, the home of my grandparents William and Edith Rundle. Grandfather, was a one-time tin miner at South Polgooth mine, 5 Turnings, ...Read more

A memory of Little Bosullow in 1930 by Philip Rundle

By kind permission of the Lord Ashcombe, the Holy Trinity Junior Boys Club, Wimbledon, camped for four weeks every year on Ranmore Common. Most of us were choirboys, so we augmented St Barnabas's choir for their services twice each ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1930 by L. Malcolm Cloutt

The Old manor had a legend that highwayman Dick Turpin made an escape by taking the cellar tunnel under Church Road to the Hind's Head (the white building). At Sandy Lane Infants School, my friend Andrew ...Read more

A memory of Bracknell in 1930 by Keith Bennett

My mum Eileen Ardern, nee Clark, was born at 59 Notley Road, Braintree in 1925. She married my dad Roy in 1944 and shortly afterwards moved north to Altrincham in Cheshire. She would dearly love to hear from Peggy Potter (age 84), ...Read more

A memory of Braintree in 1930 by David Clarke

Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy there ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1930 by Lynden Flint

I was one of three children of a soldier stationed at Bramley Army camp. I remember being taken to my first day at school in Bramley village school in 1930 and I refused to go through the school gate. Therefter I went on a school ...Read more

A memory of Rotherwick in 1930 by John Beisly