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My father John McAteer, a coal miner, was one of a large McAteer family who lived at 22 Murdock Place in Cowie, this address no longer exists. An uncle Tommy, after WW2, had an small holding at Sauchinford and in ...Read more

A memory of Fishcross in 1930 by Patrick Mc Ateer

My Dad, a countryman born and bred, went to London in the late 1920's for work - since there was a huge depression in his type of country work (farm labourer). He met my Mum, and I was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, in 1930. ...Read more

A memory of Abbotsley in 1930 by Alan Cross

Does anyone remember the McAteer's of Murdock Place or Sauchinford in Cowie, or the Bruce's, Judges or Kilmurry's associated with them.

A memory of Cowie in 1930 by Patrick Mc Ateer

Down St Mary School was built in 1878 on the site of the Bell Inn by the Rev. W T A Radford. In the 1930s I was a pupil in the infants' class which was divided from the upper class by a green curtain on a pole. There were ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

As a very young lad I lived on Ankerdine Crescent on Shooter's Hill, but Mum frequently took me down to Woolwich for shopping on the market. I can clearly remember a butcher's stall close to Powis Street where the ...Read more

A memory of Woolwich in 1930 by Barry W J Chandler