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This house was where my grandma grew up, and her father before her. Her father was a gardener and her mother was a seamstress, she grew up to be a nurse. She currently lives in Bromley and is now 72 and has been ...Read more

A memory of Farningham in 1930 by Gillian Cox

I would like to add a memory of Boxford, no, wonderful memories that I have of Boxford 65 years ago. As a child of four, I was evacuated with my grandmother Mary Jane Farthing, nee Carpenter, to Boxford to stay with her ...Read more

A memory of Boxford in 1930 by Alan Lloyd

My parents bought Wyatts Stores in about 1936 and moved from West Ham, E.London., with my two sisters. Dad kept about 300 chickens in the back field. I was born on Coronation Day at Wyatts Stores ...Read more

A memory of Doddinghurst in 1930 by Charles Samphier

I was born at 1 Kings Cottages in April 1931. I have two brothers, and as young boys we were close friends of the late Gerald Mitchel. Gerald's mum, nee Doris King, lived with her husband (Syd, who served with the RAF) in ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Tony Harper

Now 80 years of age I used to live with my Mum and Dad and brother Michael in Lincroft Crescent just above the Sandford estate. The houses were new and rather small though we were so happy there ...Read more

A memory of Bramley in 1930 by Lynden Flint

The Ward End Adult School was held on Sunday mornings in 'The Barn', St.Margaret's Road, Ward End before the 2nd World War. It was run on a sort of religious basis, like a church (non-denominational, I think, but similar to ...Read more

A memory of Ward End in 1930 by Roy Shakespeare

The Jewish Fresh Air Home and School was founded in 1921 by Miss Margaret Langdon, MBE, MA (1890-1980) and located at Blakemere Lane, Delamere near Norley, in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.  My time spent there was from age ...Read more

A memory of Delamere in 1930 by Sid Grant

Our mother worked at the Blind School in 1935 as a cook, she had many a stories to tell us.

A memory of Leatherhead in 1930

I was born in Langwith in February 1930 at 8 Moorfield Lane. I went to Whaley Thornes infants school and started in the reception class in 1935, the teacher being Miss Smith, who had taught not only some of the pupil's parents ...Read more

A memory of Langwith in 1930 by Peter Russell

Evacuation - September 3rd 1939 The government decided that mothers and children should be moved to the countryside away from areas at risk from bombing. On the 3rd, parents and children all gathered at their ...Read more

A memory of Pitlochry in 1930 by Anne Jackson