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First holidays I remember 1939 and 1940. We stayed on a farm in Fovant, owned by the Brashers. The farmhouse was very old, had a thatched roof and a huge kitchen chimney with hams hung in it. My great uncle Fred Allen and Aunt Hannah  used ...Read more

A memory of Fovant in 1930 by David Allen

I was born in Epsom in 1936. Apparently, when still in my push-chair, I trundled down the bank shown in the picture and ended up in the water!! Later when 10 or 12 we used to sail our model yachts on the pond and in our teens spent a ...Read more

A memory of Epsom in 1930 by Brian Robinson

My father worked in the field that became Carters Park when Mr Carter gave it to the town.  He was Cyril King and he was aged 13 at the time, having left school to work on the land.  It is very moving as he died ...Read more

A memory of Holbeach in 1930 by Anne Ford

I was born in Sheepwash cottage in 1926 the year Tommy Sopwith left the Towers and it was turned into a girls colledge by Miss Maule and Miss Isaceson . My father had worked for Tommy Sopwith for many years at the Towers and ...Read more

A memory of East Horsley in 1930 by Ray Johnson

Running parallel at the back of this church [St James] runs High street, where I was born as generations of my family were. The two pot banks on the right represent a fraction of the "Belcher's" that existed in Longton in the 30s/4os, ...Read more

A memory of Longton in 1930 by Barbara Johnson

My aunt and uncle ran the New Inn in the 1930s and 1940s, possibly before. Their names were Patrick Huston and Annie Huston. Also living with them in the early 1940s were my grandmother, Mary Evans, and my Auntie Lou. I lived ...Read more

A memory of Shalfleet in 1930 by Betty Gale

I would sometimes go to Downing Street if I had a day in London but I always worked at Chartwell. They were very nice people to work for, Mrs Churchill never wanted me to leave, I can't remember why I did. Mother, ...Read more

A memory of Ledsham in 1930 by George Allen

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 ...Read more

A memory of Cadishead in 1930 by Olwen Gillet

I was born in Denholme but moved to Wilsden when I was two. I can remember arriving in the back of a furniture truck. It was a lovely life for a child, even after the war started. Most of the dads were away fighting but the ...Read more

A memory of Wilsden in 1930 by Shirley Jones