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I lived in Belvedere. My sister and I would walk to Bexleyheath, crossing fields to go to the Regal Cinema. This cinema had a fine organ that came up from nowhere and was played by Reginald Fort during the films interval. ...Read more

A memory of Bexleyheath in 1930 by Stanley Gray

I was born on 8 October 1939 in a house called Trewalder, at Treyarnon Bay. The house belonged to Nan and Sam Odhams and they persuaded my mother to leave London - everyone was rushing anywhere and every place once war was declared on 3 ...Read more

A memory of St Merryn in 1930 by Merrin Holroyd

I was born in Crystal Place Road Dulwich in July 1930. I did not know the full address until a few months ago. My family moved to Grove Park when I was six months old and my mother died in March 1932. My father died when I was thirteen. I never ...Read more

A memory of Dulwich in 1930 by James Tait

I have no memory of this Hospital of course, but I was born there in May 1934, have now lived in Australia for the past 50 years.

A memory of Sheffield in 1930 by Mick Ledger

I was born in Ystrad Mynach in 1931. I remember: the soccer field, watching Dai the goalie, the abattoir, Blackriver, cinema, arcade, Bottom Ystrad, the junior school, pre-war days. We were adventurous, often playing up on the rocks ...Read more

A memory of Ystrad Mynach in 1930 by Dennis Hallett

I was a pupil from 1937 until 1941 when I left to go out into the wide wide world and I always said that we went in to the Bisley Schools as boys and very soon became men as many of us went into the services and made a mark for ...Read more

A memory of Bisley in 1930 by First Name Last Name

I too had an aunt who lived there.  In its time, it has had a house on top of the tower and a house on the wall attached to the left.  The house on top by then had disappeared. Through the archway was a line of small cottages with ...Read more

A memory of Great Yarmouth in 1930 by William Nicholls

I attended the grammar school 1936-9. Whilst waiting for buses home I used to talk to the local blacksmith. I said to him ,"My granddad uised to be a smith" When I told him my surname was `King` he asked "Was he Tom King ?" I did not ...Read more

A memory of Earls Colne in 1930 by Peter King

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

I lived in Guildford as a child, and every spring my father used to take me to St Martha's to pick bluebells in the woods at the foot of the hill. It was a sheet of blue, and however many we picked it looked the same. In the ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1930 by Pamela Morris Kennedy