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Interview with female canteen worker at Stewartby brickyard.
- 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.
- Children.
- Education.
- Families.
- Friendship.
- Housing.
- Industries.
- Leisure.
- Marriage.
- Schools.
- Swimming.
- England--Ampthill.
- England--Bedfordshire.
- England--Kempston.
- Genre:
- Oral histories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (50 minutes))
- Production:
- [England? : producer not identified], 2001.
- Summary:
- (00 mins)Born Ampthill. Only child. Paternal grandfather from Kempston & mother from Bedford worked for Forders brickworks and then at the gas works in Queens Park, Bedford. His wife was a housewife and a Sunday School teacher. These grandparents were visited every other Sunday afternoon by bus from Ampthill. (5 mins)Maternal grandparents in Bedford, visited Saturdays. He worked for the railways. Paternal grandfather walked from Kempston to the Klondike brickworks. Father worked loading brick lorries. Moved to Stewartby village. (10 mins)Description & rents of Stewartby houses. "Shift about" alternating night-day weeks. (15 mins)Stewartby schools. Swimming pool. Evacuee children staying in Stewartby. (20 mins)Soldiers billeted with family, after evacuees returned. German plane machine-gunning Stewartby. First job after school - brickworks canteen. (25 mins)Soldiers repairing American tanks on brickworks site. Catering for approx. 300 workers / soldiers. Chef from Mansion House, London. First pay. Side B (00 mins)Women workers during the Second World War at Stewartby. (5 mins)German prisoners of war. Displaced person after the war.Marriage, 1946. New London Brick Co. house, 1952 (10 mins)Sir Malcolm Stewart cottages, Stewartby. (15 mins)Stewartby village, once only rented accommodation for brickworkers; now open to all buyers. (20 mins.)End of interview.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's website.
- Archive reference: Z1205/011
- From collection: Marston Vale Oral History Project 2001-2005
- 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:
- 1427701777
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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