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Interview with wife of brickyard worker.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Women's voices and life writing, 1600-1968.
- Women's voices and life writing, 1600-1968
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aging.
- Armed Forces.
- Childbirth.
- Children.
- Cooking.
- Diseases.
- Education.
- Families.
- Food habits.
- Grief.
- Soldiers.
- Stillbirth.
- Travel.
- England--Blackpool.
- England--Eastbourne (East Sussex).
- England--Margate.
- England--Skegness.
- Genre:
- Oral histories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (60 minutes))
- Production:
- [England? : producer not identified], 2001.
- Summary:
- SIDE A Tape 00 onwards - father made roofing tiles at Stewartby; (5 mins); - elementary schooling (10 mins) - leaving school; lace work checking; (15 mins); - working for Meltis (chocolate/sweet manufacture) in Bedford (25 mins); - Holidays; grandfather - well digger (32 mins) End of Side A SIDE B (Tape 00 onwards) Family background ; First World War munitions work; soldier brother in India; one brother went to America; both returned to fight in WW1; (15 mins); - Youngest brother tried to enrol, under-age; (20 mins); - Mother explains to her (as a child) what "war" is (25 mins); - Viewing bomb site in Elstow (German attack during WW1) Seeing R101 airship; friend's relative killed in R101 crash; viewing public funeral; seeing first aeroplane in field outside Kempston (32 mins) End of Side B END OF INTERVIEW
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's website.
- Archive reference: Z1205/005
- 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. Side A cuts off abruptly 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:
- 1427704040
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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