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1936 - my father Ernest Eldridge and mother Violet and myself Barbara moved from Dorchester on Thames to Drayton St Leonards. My mother's friend May Rusher (wife of Frank Rusher) arranged for the cottage next ...Read more

A memory of Drayton St Leonard in 1930 by Barbara Gibson

Born in Mill Lane in Broughton Astley on 3rd May 1926, I started school at B/Astley C of Primary in 1931 as a five year old. We would be 'called to school' by the ringing of the bell housed in the ...Read more

A memory of Broughton Astley in 1930 by Reuben Reynolds

We were twin sisters, Audrey and Yvonne Long. We were evacuated to Burwash, I only have a photo of us sitting in a field somewhere with more young children of our age, and some younger. I have no memories of the ...Read more

A memory of Ticehurst in 1930 by Yvonne Taylor

I was evacuated to Kibworth three times; in 1939 I came probably from my school, Newington Green in North London. i stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Dinkley. After a few months, a bomb fell in Kibworth, probably on the way to ...Read more

A memory of Kibworth Beauchamp in 1930 by Dorothy Beth

My great-grandparents, Herbert and Edith Cornish, were the landlords of this public house in the 1930s.

A memory of Reedham in 1930 by Terry Benson

I was born in Maceado Square, Hunslet, not a blade of grass to be seen, the small house was behind Winterburns store, everyone shopped there, along with Cardis's pork butchers. Pub opposite. Trams stopped at Balm Road, Miggy was not ...Read more

A memory of Hunslet in 1930 by Roy Brining

This boating lake has been my favorite fun thing to do when my parents took me to Lowestoft for our annual holidays. We stayed with a Mrs Hutchins who ran a small but perfect boarding-house. We always stayed with her and ...Read more

A memory of Lowestoft in 1930 by Denman Lalonde

I went with my parents, brother and sister to live at Beech Cottage in the grounds of the big house named The Villa. We went there to escape the bombing at Wallasey (Liverpool). I was four at that time and we stayed ...Read more

A memory of Crosby Garrett in 1930 by Gillian Currie

Hi there to everyone who reads this, it might jog your memory some, only I don't really think there are many of the old gang left now from Stonebyres estate. To jog your memory I will mention a few names ...Read more

A memory of Stonebyres in 1930 by Alexander (Alistair) Hannah

My grandfather G. A. Smith took the tenancy of Springs Farm on Edingley Moor in 1931, when I was six months old. A builder by trade, and a sergeant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry during the First World War, he ...Read more

A memory of Edingley in 1930 by John Watts