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I was born at 3 The Terrace, Ovingham 08.02.26 and started Ovingham School when I was 5 years old. It was a wonderful school - it had only 2 classrooms and the Headmaster was Mr Burns. I can still repeat all my tables (thanks to the school ...Read more

A memory of Ovingham in 1930 by Brian Allan

I went with my parents, brother and sister to live at Beech Cottage in the grounds of the big house named The Villa. We went there to escape the bombing at Wallasey (Liverpool). I was four at that time and we stayed there ...Read more

A memory of Crosby Garrett in 1930 by Gillian Currie

My name is Peter Warner. I spent many holidays at Upper Dean in the 1930s. My uncle was a farmer at Top Farm. I was also evacuated to Dean during the Second World War and attended Dean school. It remains to this day my favourite ...Read more

A memory of Upper Cuts in 1930 by Peter Warner

My first visit was with my parents. From memory, they had booked to stay somewhere, but for some reason we were directed to stay with a Mr & Mrs Salter who owned a farmhouse near the church. We were ...Read more

A memory of Mark in 1930 by David Cask

I was born in 1934 in a house next to Caldicotts (?) farm, where my mother would chat over the hedge to Mrs. Caldicott, who had three sons and a huge (to me) pond. It was exciting to be taken to their farm; the geese were ...Read more

A memory of Wythall in 1930 by Joan Hart (Nee Ward)

In August 1939 I came to Roadwater from Kingston, Surrey to stay with my grandparents for my summer school holidays. My grandmother's name was Eva Morse and my grandfather's Rupert Morse.  At that time they lived in a house that ...Read more

A memory of Roadwater in 1930 by Raymond Morse

My father, Bertram Whittingham was a native of Hemsworth, born 1892 and I am the remaining son of the family born August 1926 in a small miner's cottage located at No. 7 North View. My father was a coal miner, working at ...Read more

A memory of Hemsworth in 1930 by George Whittingham

My father was born in Marlow and mother had already made 2 very good friends before she met and married him.  As a result we as children (I was the eldest of 6) found it a wonderful haven to be welcomed at their home on countless ...Read more

A memory of Marlow in 1930 by Winifred Jeffers

My aunt and uncle ran the New Inn in the 1930s and 1940s, possibly before. Their names were Patrick Huston and Annie Huston. Also living with them in the early 1940s were my grandmother, Mary Evans, and my Auntie Lou. I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Shalfleet in 1930 by Betty Gale

Born in 1936 at Blackhall Rocks. Went to junior school at Blackhall Colliery and then to Henry Smith at Hartlepool. Nana used to live in Third Street (Graham) with my 3 uncles (Thomas, Jack and Stanley). I have ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery in 1930 by Marjorie Spice