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My father Fred Beeching, was born at Dovedale Cottage in 1926, sadly he has now passed away, but left us with many stories, he attended school in ightham, and my Grandparents also Fred Beeching and Rose Beeching are buried in St ...Read more

A memory of Ivy Hatch in 1920 by Brian Beeching

H.M.S. Sylph went hard aground on Aberavon Beach after breaking her towing hawsers during a storm while being towed across Swansea Bay to be scrapped in Newport. This was in April 1927. Attempts to ...Read more

A memory of Pontrhydyfen in 1920 by Gwyn Morgan

A cousin of mine, Winifred Dogherty, was appointed Head of this school in 1933 and I believe stayed there until her death in 1952. She lived at 3 Beech Grove North, Stanwix. Some of her family joined ...Read more

A memory of Stanwix in 1930 by John Dogherty

My grandmother and grandfather lived at "Oaklands", in Maesgwyn Road, opposite a corrugated iron church. The road was unmade and beyond the church to the sea was a large meadow where cattle and sheep grazed. On ...Read more

A memory of Penrhyn in 1930

In August 1939 I came to Roadwater from Kingston, Surrey to stay with my grandparents for my summer school holidays. My grandmother's name was Eva Morse and my grandfather's Rupert Morse.  At that time they lived in a house ...Read more

A memory of Roadwater in 1930 by Raymond Morse

I am the daughter of Doreen Smith, daughter of Frederick Steve Smith & Elizabeth Smith (The siblings consisted of Albert, Frederick, John, Violet, Nellie, Millie, Elizabeth or Lizzie who died of TB, Jim, Doreen). ...Read more

A memory of North Seaton in 1930 by Doreen Smith Nee Beverley

I was born in Severn Beach in 1937 and lived in number 11 Ableton Lane, later to become Church Road! I remember the Stockham family very well and the Scrivens, Mrs Lukins, and all along the road, Vowles, Grimes, ...Read more

A memory of Severn Beach in 1930 by Sheila Mead

In the row of cottages on Pill Creek mentioned by Malcolm Macmeikan lived "old Searle" who built small boats in a shed on the quay on the opposite side of the creek. At age 11 or 12, I painted one of them, a rowing boat ...Read more

A memory of Feock in 1930 by Philip Woodward

I was born on the 24th of July 1929 above a shop next to a pub called the Rose of Denmark, in Hotwells, Bristol, very convenient for Father to wet his whistle and my head at the same time. Father was born in 1893, Mother in 1895. They ...Read more

A memory of Bristol in 1930 by Arthur Cottrell

I wonder if anyone is old enough to remember Westgate on Sea before the war! Our family would go there every year for 2 weeks and stay at a guest house not far from where the railway crosses the road ...Read more

A memory of Westgate on Sea in 1930