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Interview with female from a long-standing Cranfield family, father a brickworker.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Women's voices and life writing, 1600-1968.
- Women's voices and life writing, 1600-1968
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armed Forces.
- Charities.
- Dance.
- Families.
- Feature films.
- Labor.
- People with disabilities.
- Railroads.
- Women--Social life and customs.
- Work environment.
- Wounds and injuries.
- England--Bedford.
- England--Cranfield.
- England--Kempston.
- England--Woburn Sands.
- Genre:
- Oral histories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (50 minutes))
- Production:
- [England? : producer not identified], 2001.
- Summary:
- (00 mins)Family background; grandfather working in Lovell's bakery, Cranfield (5 mins)Grandfather working at Stewartby brickworks (10 mins)Second World war ammunition work at Elstow; grandfather's Royal Navy service on Russian convoys; Cranfield Lower School (15 mins)Cranfield shops in 1940/50s - groceries, newsagent, Amstey's, chemists, Ritz cinema. Cinema ticket prices & management (20 mins)Cranfield Football Club, barn dances, Stewartby Secondary school, swimming lessons with coach at Stewartby swimming pool (25 mins)Father's accident at Stewartby, permanent disability, financial hardship, subsequent work in "disabled shop" at brickworks. British Legion standard carrying in family. Her first work at Crysalco, Kempston, then Dagnal Electronics, Cranfield. (30 mins)Saving for what you wanted (no hire purchase available); Saturday night cinema & dances; hourly bus service to Bedford; Saturday afternoon shopping (32 mins)END OF SIDE A SIDE B (00 mins)School visit to brickyard; Christmas children's parties for brickyard employee's children (5 mins)Meeting husband-to-be; working conditions at Dagnell's electronics factory (10 mins)Father's 51 years working at brickyard; active in Cranfield village life: ran village Tote for 25 years, funding charitable treats for pensioners and widows; trainer for football club (15 mins)Cranfield Chrysanthemum & Dahlia Society; growth of village "outsiders"; growth of car ownership and decline in public transport; local pubs; local medical centre; middle school (20 mins) Closure of Ridgmont brickworks; development of Millennium Country Park
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's website.
- Archive reference: Z1205/020
- From collection: Marston Vale Oral History Project 2001-2005
- Please note that there are multiple tracks to this recording. Use the arrow buttons to navigate to further tracks. There is about a minute of silence at the end.
- Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2024. Digitized from a copy held by Bedfordshire Archives and made available by AM.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed March 18, 2024).
- OCLC:
- 1427700047
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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