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I remember waiting impatiently for the pool to open on May 2nd each year. The entrance was 2d, and 7/6d for a season ticket. There were always long queues on the first day of opening. I was 11-12 years old ...Read more

A memory of Kingsbury in 1930 by Winifred Jeffers

At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 I was evacuated to Emery Down from Portsmouth. I was billeted with a very nice couple who lived in a cottage quite close to the church. The church was the centre of the village ...Read more

A memory of Emery Down in 1930 by Alan Evans

A miner's family from Blaenrhondda - Watkins - were lodgers in the late 1930's with my parents living in Colindale, Hendon, NW London. I was born in 1926 and when I was ten the idea came for me to stay for a holiday in ...Read more

A memory of Blaenrhondda in 1930 by Sidney Holt

The house we lived in, two up and two down, toilet way up the garden, no hot water, must have been a nightmare for my mum but my memories are of playing in the square with all the other kids, Maypole days, ...Read more

A memory of Cadishead in 1930 by Olwen Gillet

bill.haylor@btinternet.com  Resident in and around Smallfield for 81 yrs. Shops and services were limited but adequate. Village hierarchy although unwritten was arranged in a manner that suited ...Read more

A memory of Smallfield in 1930 by Bill Haylor

I think that this view looks back towards the Mitcham Fair Green. If I am right, on the left would be the Swimming baths where I used to go now and again with friends. I seem to remember that it was very basic, with changing cubicles opening directly onto the pool.

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Douglas Tunbridge

We moved in to a brand new semi, No. 22, before the war in August 1938. The Rappapore family lived at No 20 and the Bannisters at No. 24. On the outbreak of war we were evacuated to my great Aunt in Ludlow until the intial ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1930 by Richard Stinton

A close relative, Charles Passey, was in the police force in Abertillery. He married Doll Landon whose parents kept a shop there and I spent many a happy holiday with them in Abertillery in the mid 1930s.  The shop ...Read more

A memory of Abertillery in 1930 by Noelle Southam

This photo, not named, was of the School Lane (later Church Rd) crossing the Arterial Rd (later the A127). It was one of the few hard roads in common with Laindon High Rd, St Nicholas Lane, Pound Lane, Wash ...Read more

A memory of Laindon in 1930 by William Diment

I was born in 1922 in the village of Mundford.  My Father was the village policeman. The village was then a self-contained society and provided all the necessities of life, including a doctor, blacksmith, carpenter and general ...Read more

A memory of Mundford in 1920 by Ralph Woodgate