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As far back that I can remember, it was the summer of 1934 when I first started school at St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Calcutta Road. I sat next to a friend that I had made (John Toole) Who later in life emigrated to Canada and was ...Read more

A memory of Tilbury in 1930 by John Ryan

I am the great-granddaughter of Henry Wilder. I think in this photo the boats are in front of the boathouse which belonged to my family. Henry died about 1910 so it passed on to the childrem, Henry, Charlotte and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was my grandmother.

A memory of Maidenhead in 1930 by Marion Whitlock

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs A large number of our toys were made from wood, dependant on what tools were available in fathers shed, if it was unlocked! The ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

Many times I rowed my little row boat down the river past Haling Path on the way to the Staunches where we fished for hours or chased rabbits.

A memory of Thetford in 1930 by Stanley Hayward

My uncle Lawrence married Peggy Smurthwaite in about 1935 and took over the Hinchley Wood Hotel. It was already well-known to him and his brother, Ellis, because he was a partner in the building firm E & L Berg ...Read more

A memory of Hinchley Wood in 1930 by Ellis Berg

Hi, does anyone recall these flats? My grandparents lived there, Mr and Mrs Rowe. My grandad worked on the Barbican, he was a skipper on a fishing boat. They had a large family, my dad was one of their children, name of ...Read more

A memory of Plymouth in 1930 by Shirley Jones

In the row of cottages on Pill Creek mentioned by Malcolm Macmeikan lived "old Searle" who built small boats in a shed on the quay on the opposite side of the creek. At age 11 or 12, I painted one of them, a rowing boat ...Read more

A memory of Feock in 1930 by Philip Woodward

My very first memory is in 1934 when my parents, sister and I came to live in rooms over a private school in The Mount (from memory) near to a new Fire Station that had just been built. I was four years old and my mother was ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1930 by Alan Holden

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

Old Row, Golds Hill, does anybody remember the pub called The Boat on Canalside next to Old Row? I know that Old Row was pulled down in 1936 and the pub was de-licensed by 1938, that was when my grandparents lived there, the Mcdonalds, ...Read more

A memory of Golds Green in 1930 by Malcolm Glass