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My uncle, Sir Howard Button. bought 2 cottages, Mallows and Yew Tree Cottage and a house, Straw Hall, in 1915. I have an album of photographs of the cottages from 1915 - 1926. My uncle let us (my parents, my brother ...Read more

A memory of Nether Wallop in 1930 by John Donne

I was born in Mitcham in 1929 and lived as a baby in Queens Road aka "rocky" or "Rocks Terrace" my Grandfather was called Truelove and had a shop in Queens Road. Hard to belive now but a horse and cart owner would stop ...Read more

A memory of Mitcham in 1930 by Derek Jones

This story written by Bee Snow 1928-2007 (nee Barbara Whitaker) about her childhood in Evershot, Dorset. Reared with three sisters, four brothers, four terriers and a jackdaw, I insisted by the age of five in ...Read more

A memory of Evershot in 1930 by Peter Whitaker

My dad Fred Brown, estate carpenter at Mountfield, was a good singer and actor and was a member of Robertsbridge amateur theatre group, and I remember going to shows at the hall several times, only one I remember, 'Changing of the ...Read more

A memory of Robertsbridge in 1930 by John Brown

My brother and I were born in 1931, the only twins in the village at that time (Elwyn and Eifion Goss). Bryn Seion was always in our sight whenever we went to the shops on the square. The first stop was to the Co-op which was ...Read more

A memory of Glanaman in 1930 by Elwyn Goss

The photograph of Bridge Road clearly shows The Cove Supply Stores building on the right. My parents ran that shop from about 1936 to 1945. The Bridge Road end of the shop in the photo was the Off-Licence. Opposite the shop ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1930 by Ronald Catmur