Agatha Cartwright |
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Surname
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Cartwright
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Forename
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Agatha
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Date of recording
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2013
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Year of birth
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192?
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Place of Birth
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Aldeburgh
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Occupation
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?
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Fathers occupation
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?
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Present Address
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Aldeburgh
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Location Interview
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Aldeburgh
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Interviewer
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Alan Cartwright
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Duration
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60 Mins
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Track 1 (2mins 26secs).
Introduction. Born. Description of home Leiston Rd. Aldeburgh. Mother & Father. School days. Track 2 (12mins 40secs) School dinners. Empire day, sports field, teachers, electricity generating station and shop, gasometer, doctors surgery. Cows from farm in Victoria Rd. Tennis, hockey, football field. The beach. Fishing boats & huts. Bathing huts. Childhood toys. Food at home. The fair and Carnival, rides and attractions. Laundry, domestic. Crystal set radio. Jobs done at home eg. brass cleaning. Sunday and weekday clothes. Clubs to pay for goods. Track 3 (7min 13secs). Teeth pulling. Payment for Doctor. Sunday School & Church. Leiston Rd shops and work places. Wash day. Mr.Blake the Rabbit man. Tramps, British Legion dances. Track 4 (7mins 54secs) Make do & mend. Sisters work at the laundry. Slaughter house in Leiston Rd. Milk delivery, traction engine, sighting of Airships. Aldeburgh Lodge School, Church, Sundial School. Hospital, Belstead School, Riding School. Jobs she had to do. Track 5 (12mins 40secs) Ward’s garage and shops in the High St. Goods coming from Leiston. ATS during the war. Married life in Newcastle and Aldeburgh. Deliveries to the house, bread etc. Boys Brigade. Emptying the meter. Track 6 (11mins 21secs) Keeping warm at home. Christmas as a child. Childhood memories. Landscape around Leiston Rd. Crossing the railway line, coalyards. Track7 (6 mins42secs). British Legion& Salvation Army bands. The knife grinder. Changes to Aldeburgh. Holiday homes, swimming rafts at sea, bathing machines, catching and selling of sprats. Local doctors surgeries, dentists. Medication at home. Docotors Nora and Robin Acheson. |