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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 ...Read more

A memory of Guildford in 1930 by Pamela Morris Kennedy

Osborne Road is where my Father was brought up in the 1930s. This street was very close to the Royal Aircraft Establishment and this generated my Dad's great interest in aeroplanes and flight. He was later to join the RAF and served during the Second World War.

A memory of Farnborough in 1930 by Gillian Hird

My Mum, Nesta Smith (nee Sprake) was born in No. 3 Eype Cottages and lived there up until she married my Dad (Ron Smith) in July 1949.  They met when he was stationed close by with the Royal Army Service Corp.  They used to do ...Read more

A memory of Eype's Mouth in 1930 by Julie Gillibrand

This photo shows the arrival of Royal Mail being deliverd to the Post Office at Higher Clovelly. The mail for Clovelly village was then loaded on to the donkey and taken down the steep cobbled street to the ...Read more

A memory of Clovelly in 1930 by Graham Shackson

I was born in Dereham, Muriel Secker, and lived in Cowper Road. I went to the Infants School, near Bishop Bonners Cott, 1928-1932/3, then National School and finally was Head Girl at Crown Road School. 1939 I worked in Hobbies ...Read more

A memory of Great Dunham in 1930 by Muriel Cunningham

In the spring/early summer of 1935 I was admitted to Chanderr's Ford Sanitorium for treatment of tuberular glands in the neck. I spent six months there and have some happy memories of feeding ...Read more

A memory of Chandler's Ford in 1930 by Doreen Dicker

I came to live at Leadgate when I was 12 years old and attended Leadgate Council School which was a large red brick building for infants and juniors, boys and girls. I was at the school for only 2 years, ...Read more

A memory of Leadgate in 1930 by Wilf Wallace

In August 1939 I was evacuated frm Salford to Caton. I had my gas mask, a small parcel of food and a label on my clothing. We arrived at the then beautiful station, adorned with flowers. Then we walked to the Village ...Read more

A memory of Caton in 1930 by James Maurice Blackford

I've never heard of this being referred to as Queen Bodicea obelisk. I have always known it as the Royal Observatory obelisk, created as a referral point for the Greenwich 0 (zero) deg line of longitude which it is placed on. ...Read more

A memory of Chingford in 1930 by Ted Dowling

My Name is Alan Pearce. I was born in October 1939 at 75 Park View Road and I have many memories of going to the bottom of the road and walking under the very low tunnel which carried the railway line. ...Read more

A memory of Tottenham in 1930 by Alan Pearce