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By kind permission of the Lord Ashcombe, the Holy Trinity Junior Boys Club, Wimbledon, camped for four weeks every year on Ranmore Common. Most of us were choirboys, so we augmented St Barnabas's choir for their services twice each ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1930 by L. Malcolm Cloutt

I was evacuated with my school, Burleigh Road, Tuffnell Park, to Keyham on Sep 3rd 1939. I was 6. I sat with a girl called Ruth in the Village Hall and we were picked up by someone in some cottages at the end of the street and ...Read more

A memory of Keyham in 1930

I was born in 1933 at Oak Cottage, Victory Avenue, Dunton. Dad worked as a cook in a nearby "Work house", this was during the great depression and times were hard. I have vague memories of the school there though on a ...Read more

A memory of Dunton Wayletts in 1930 by Ronald Brunton

The simple pleasure of camping with my Scout group from Ockham, has been a lasting and warm memory over the years. Our Scout room was over the stables in Lady Lovelace's Ockham Park estate. Opposite our camp on Ranmore was a ...Read more

A memory of Ranmore Common in 1930 by William Langley

My parents and I lived at Ford for a few months in 1939, having moved there from north London when my father started work for a building contractor on the airfield at Colerne. We had lodgings with a Mr and Mrs Pearce (or ...Read more

A memory of Ford in 1930 by John Bunting

Does anyone remember The Shipp Family who lived in Raynham Road and who went to Raynham Road School during the 1920's/1930's? My mum, Lily Shipp lived at No.22. She had tap and ballet lessons at the Tilly Vernon school (Bruce ...Read more

A memory of Edmonton in 1930 by Pamela Rider

Born and brought up in Barmston village, my book, 'Diz Thoo Remembr' recalls many of the happenings in the village from 1933 onwards. I was born into what could have been a family of twenty. My mum ...Read more

A memory of Barmston in 1930 by Donald Bemrose

We found a telephone when I was ten. The family moved to steep Ashfield Avenue in 1935 and there, in the hall by the front door and sitting on top of a little triangular table that fitted snugly into the corner, was a telephone. The ...Read more

A memory of Bushey in 1930 by Paul Wigmore

A group of us children would often after church on a Sunday go for a walk home 'the long way'. Yes, walking then was just wonderful. Our trek often took us along the river to the farm, before Ho- ...Read more

A memory of Old Milton in 1930 by Phyllis Williams

I first came to Southfield House shortly after I was born in Falkirk in 1935 with my mother & father - Dorothy & Robert Barr. We lived there until I was 15 years. My brother Robin and sister Katie came along after me. To ...Read more

A memory of Slamannan in 1930 by Patricia Garwasiuk