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I lived in Crossgates and my first school was also Mossgreen. The headmaster was Mr Burgess and the teachers were Miss Taylor, Miss Curry and Miss Mitchell. My brothers and I have many happy memories of Crossgates, exploring the Taft and the Bulwark.

A memory of Crossgates in 1920

My grandparents lived in Colerne, my mother Minnie Louise Rowe was born there around the 1880s and my father William Simpkins lived in Colerne with the Aust family from when he was a baby. I was born in Bath in Kingsmead Road in a ...Read more

A memory of Colerne in 1920 by Edgar Simpkins

Margery Dickens was one of five children who were born in Wibtoft in the 1920s, she went to Little Claybrooke school, she walked every day and was expected to collect wood on the way home. She came from a very poor family, she shared ...Read more

A memory of Wibtoft in 1920 by Mary Johnson

I am searching my dad's family. My dad's father William L Robinson died  of pnuemonia on 6th December 1924, when my dad was aged 1.  I understand that my grandpa lived in 7th street as a young man and worked as a Hewer. We have had no ...Read more

A memory of Horden in 1920 by Loraine Jackson

My grandfather was a footman at Selsdon Park in 1919, when he married my grandmother. I would love to know more about Selsdon Park in the 1920s, but all I can find out is after it was turned into a golf course. Can anyone help me find out the history of  this lovely old house? Betty.

A memory of Selsdon in 1920 by Betty Shaw

My mother, Thelma Hill, and her brother Ken were born in Gleave Road, Selly Oak. They used to play down one end called (I think) "the pudding bag". My mum went to St Mary's School and her brother (at aged 11 years) to St Wulstuns. Mum used ...Read more

A memory of Selly Oak in 1920 by Sheila Mc Kinstry

'I gave up the idea of farming and took up employment as an apprentice blacksmith in the village close to home. The prettiest village in Speyside - Maggieknockater. I took to smithing like a duck to water. I had ...Read more

A memory of Maggieknockater in 1920 by R Urquhart

My grandfather Robert John Roberts, born 1895, joined The Ynysddu Crusaders. When I came to visit from Portsmouth, he took me to watch them play. My father Donald Keith Roberts played football, bowls and cricket. He would be very ...Read more

A memory of Ynysddu in 1920 by Elaine Flemons

It seems that my great great grandparents lived in Blackfriars Tower, sometime in 1920/1930s. Though my mum had told my sister that she remembers visiitng her grandmother in the Tower, she felt that Mum had confused it with ...Read more

A memory of Great Yarmouth in 1920 by Maggie Martin

I have no connections with Bridport or the Visitation Convent but found the thread of messages detailing school life highly absorbing; I do know of another individual of note who may qualify as becoming "famous" (message posted ...Read more

A memory of Bridport in 1920