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My grandparents and great-uncle and aunt lived and worked at Parc-y-Felin farm in the 1930s. My mother and her sister went St Fagans school. Although the farm was demolished in the early 1960s the farm cottage still ...Read more

A memory of St Fagans in 1930

I was born on the 5th February 1930 in the cottage known as Sunnyside, Little Polgooth, the home of my grandparents William and Edith Rundle. Grandfather, was a one-time tin miner at South Polgooth mine, 5 Turnings, ...Read more

A memory of Little Bosullow in 1930 by Philip Rundle

At the house where we lived from 1928 until 1935, (No 24 Barracks Road, Burnley, now called Cavalry Way), it was called a 'back to back' row cottage. It comprised of two bedrooms upstairs, one just about able to fit a double ...Read more

A memory of Burnley in 1930 by Rowland Farrer

I was born in the Station Cottages 1938. I have been to see them. They have been turned into one house.

A memory of Clochan in 1930 by Douglas Johnston

I was born in the large house behind the van in June of 1932. At that time it was a private maternity home run by a Midwife called Nurse Bailey. My maternal grandparents lived in Plumtree Cottage, which is on the left of the photo ...Read more

A memory of Preesall in 1930 by John Isles

Memories -mrs roberts miss cook and her chow dog during the early war years they were second mothers to us all,village people were kind and helpfull ,mr pond the water bailiff gave me all the fishing tackle i needed and ...Read more

A memory of Holdenhurst in 1930 by William Roland Pye

My aunt, Kate Elizabeth Sarah Hunt, was the District Nurse in the Tockenham area covering Wootton Bassett and Lyneham for several years in the 1930's and she lived in Tockenham Wick. She lived in one of four small ...Read more

A memory of Tockenham Wick in 1930 by Geoffrey Head

I lived at Salt Lake Cottages with my parents Stan and Elsie Simpson. Dad was a signalman on the railway. I was very young at the time and had moved from Rycroft at Newby, where I was born. I spent my summer ...Read more

A memory of Chapel-le-Dale in 1930 by Lilian Bell

The formative years of my early childhood were spent at No. 39 Bondgate, Pontefract, which was one of a block of four small two-up, two-down houses situated immediately adjacent to the front ...Read more

A memory of Pontefract in 1930 by Graham Atkinson

I returned 2 years ago and found an old recluse who remembered the folks, but the village is still recognisable. Every Good Friday it was a ritual to leave Noss Mayo in Devon early in the morning down to a little ...Read more

A memory of St Tudy in 1930 by John Hockaday