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The school i went to is still standing today..i remember the headmaster Mr Harry Healey...we had a drill hall it was the basement of the school which led us out into the playground...the boys and girls had their own playgrounds..school time ...Read more

A memory of Compstall in 1930 by Joan Jackson

This is not a memory. I am doing my family tree, My grandfather Albert Llwellyn Darke, lived in Gwersyllt late 20's early 30's . He worked at Russian Oil Products we believe in Gwersyllt. He was tragically killed in a motorcycle ...Read more

A memory of Gwersyllt in 1930 by pastiche

Grand parents, aunts, uncles with Winstanley surname buried at St John's. Staying at Tootle Terrace with relatives. Recent visit July 2010 met with octogenarians and older ones who have lived in this area all their ...Read more

A memory of Whittle-le-Woods in 1930 by Sheila Cross

I was born in Brighton Road, number 130, in 1930, it is now known as Jubilee Road. I went to St Peter & Paul School 1935 -1944. Itwas agreat place to live in, we used to spend days in Sniggery Woods & go collecting golf-balls on ...Read more

A memory of Crosby in 1930 by Alfred Moran

Just before the Second World War was declared we moved to my grandmother's house at Long Crendon, as she felt it safer from us. (Some hope, as Brize Norton wasn't far away, nor was Oxford). Her house was called Lower ...Read more

A memory of Long Crendon in 1930 by John Nurcombe

My husband Ronald Jones was in the childrens home The Home of the Good Shepherd in Hanley Swan from approx. 1938 to 1944. He was twelve when he left. He has many happy memories & some sad, of his time there. He ...Read more

A memory of Great Malvern in 1930 by Winifred Jones

I was christened in St John's church in 1935. I was born in Harvey Road, and have been back so many times visiting my old school Davis Lane, the old Red LIon was at the end of our street and on the other side was ...Read more

A memory of Leytonstone in 1930 by Shirley Reynard

Does anyone remember a bridge to the quarry under Lady Lea Lane? I think it was for transporting sand from the quarry to the canal. There used to be a carving of as "castle" under the bridge carved into the brickwork. Any story known about ...Read more

A memory of Rhodesia in 1930 by Thomas Bell

I lived on the Isle of Wight from the early 1930s until roughly 1943.We lived at several different locations, Cranmore being one of them. I remember as a small child Mrs Jordan's shop. I also have vague memories ...Read more

A memory of Cranmore in 1930 by Claire Spencer

I want to write mainly about the Court House, circa 1937, but some later memories have crept in. I was born in L'Espec Street. My grandmother lived in South Parade, opposite the Atkinson's house already mentioned elsewhere. ...Read more

A memory of Northallerton in 1930 by Kathy Vincent