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I was born at Rilla Mill on the 1st of September 1934 in what was, in those days, the Police Station. This house was opposite the Manor Inn. My father was the local policeman, and he was called Ewart Pearce. His ...Read more

A memory of Rilla Mill in 1930 by John Pearce

My grandad and grandma Sam Brown lived at 36 near the chapel, aunt Et and uncle? on the adjoining corner house. Until I was 5 we lived at Offley where I was born at the Wheelwrights during the 1990s. I was looking for this ...Read more

A memory of Lilley in 1930 by John Brown

My father was one of those so called 'Mudlark's. I remember him telling the stories of how they used to stage mock fights over the pennies to make people feel sorry for them and throw more money. The thought that they were poor orphans ...Read more

A memory of Portsmouth in 1930 by Darryl Thorne

Joseph was my great-grandfather who lived at Tirbach Road. During his life he had much bad fortune. He lost a leg in an accident, his wife died at a young age and a daughter was drowned in the canal. According to a ...Read more

A memory of Ystalyfera in 1930 by David Thomas

My grandparents Paula and Gustave D'Hondt managed this hotel during the latter half of the 1930s till it was requisitioned by the army during the war. They then moved with some of their paying guests to Highdown, Hindhead, a large ...Read more

A memory of Hindhead in 1930 by Catherine Marshall

Down St Mary School was built in 1878 on the site of the Bell Inn by the Rev. W T A Radford. In the 1930s I was a pupil in the infants' class which was divided from the upper class by a green curtain on a pole. There were ...Read more

A memory of Down St Mary in 1930 by John Shapland

Does anyone know of a house called Conliston in Oxshott.  Built in the 1930s, it  was "one mile from Oxshott Station and Leatherhead Golf Course.  Standing on the brow of a hill, facing full south".  This house was built by my aunt and ...Read more

A memory of Oxshott in 1930

I think you need to get a bit further back in history to find anything about the Old Reading Room which you describe as "High Trees", Long Lane.  In the thirties my parents rented Ploverfield Lodge Cottage which ...Read more

A memory of Old Milton in 1930 by Belinda Heathcote

I was born in Brick House, London Road, in 1930. My father was Arthur Herbert Holmes, an architect and surveyor. He planned many shops and other buildings around Essex. My older brother Anthony James Holmes is buried in St ...Read more

A memory of Pitsea in 1930 by Colin Holmes

My mum and dad were the first people in the Old Roan estate in 1936, living in 18 Bradfield Ave. The cost of the house? It was a through room, and cost £425! The houses with a front and a rear room cost £450! ...Read more

A memory of Old Roan Sta in 1930 by Barry Mounsey