DENNIS PEGG |
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Surname
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Pegg
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Forename
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Dennie
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Date of recording
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Oct 2009
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Year of birth
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19190
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Place of Birth
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Aldeburgh
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Occupation
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Blacksmith and metalworker
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Fathers occupation
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Blacksmith
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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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Colin Fletcher
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Duration
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118 Mins
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This recording consists of 14 tracks.
Track 1 (20 seconds) Introduction. Colin Fletcher interviewing Dennis Pegg on 26th October 2009. Track 2 (10 minutes) Still working at ninety years of age. Birth. Brothers and sisters. Parents. His father, John Thomas Pegg. Father running away to join Fossett's Circus. Father learning smithy trade. Father's first marriage to a woman called Smythe. Father in First World War. Parents meet and marry. Father starts the business at 29 Park Road, Aldeburgh in 1912. Reggie Waller. The workshop, the wheelwright shop and the paint shop in 1920's. Lots of agricultural work. Father, 'a hell of a farrier'. Dennis starting to learn trade at 14 years of age. Boiling kettle on the forge. The Corporation horses. The bellows. Describing the workshop. The travis. The forge. Track 3 (10 minutes) The blacksmith's shop in the 1920's and 1930's. Charlie Aldred's Rolls Royce. A serious accident in the workshop. In hospital for six weeks. Father evacuated to Warsop. Dr Lloyd. The Second World War. Compassionate leave. Joining the Army. Bulford Camp. Farnborough. Dennis meeting his wife, Peggy. Early married life in the war. Promotion to sergeant. Working on World War Two tanks. Shoey Martin drinking beer. Staff Sergeant Fleming. Running the blacksmith's business. Bill Turner. Hoss Cassidy. Shoeing horses. Making and repairing harrows. Agricultural work. Learning wrought iron work at the Rural Industries HQ, Wimbledon. Commercial work - oil tanks, chimneys, fabrication, Girdlestone Pumps. In workshop at five years of age. How to shoe a horse. Track 4 (10 minutes) Shoeing a horse. Hand-made nails and manufactured nails. Clench knife. Farrier tongs. Building a cart. Making a wheelbarrow. His father, a very cleaver man. Father making a perfect horse-shoe. Iron better than steel. Father and mother meeing. Mother in service. Track 5 (11 minutes) Grandmother Tapp's ginger beer. Hard childhood. Business bad before the war. Mushrooming. Blackberrying. Errand boy. Strict father. A happy family. Mother a good cook. A Victoria Stove. The living room. The scullery. The gas cooker. The copper. Monday washday. The mangle. At Aldeburgh School from 3-14 years old. The teachers - Miss Cooper, Miss Marsh, Mrs Wightman, Joe Symonds, Jack Pilgrim and Pop Witham. Student teachers. The school garden. The four school houses. Carpentry and cooking at school. Christmases. Chickens, ducks and rabbits. Track 6 (10 minutes) Change in Aldeburgh. High Street shops in the 1930's: The Black Horse. O&C Butcher's. Mrs Lay's. Miss Wisby. Sewell's. Lockwood's golf shop. Leech's bakery. Fisher's bakery. The Louvre draper's shop. Jeffrey's fruit and veg shop. A cobbler's. A hardware shop. Ward's (bottom) garage. Barclay's Bank. Smith's butchers. Sharman's general store. Wine shop. The Gas showroom. Slater's hairdresser's. Billy King the barber. Miller's newspaper shop. Baker's butcher's shop. The East Suffolk Hotel. Baptist Chapel. O&C Butcher's, outfitters. Fisher the cobbler. The dairy. Lloyd's bank. George Bickers, greengrocer. Aldridge butcher's. International Stores. Frank Gissing's antique shop. Baggott's. Cassidy's golf shop. Timothy White's chemist. Etchell's greengrocery. The sweet shop. The cinema. Hearn's butchers's. The Police Station. Wm C Reades. The hospital. Track 7 (2minutes) High Street shops in the 1930's: Lucy Pilgrim. Allen's electrical shop. Sears' bakery. Dr Marriott. Dr Somers. The Cross Inn. Track 8 (11 minutes) High Street shops. Ing the jeweller. Stephenson's jewellers. The Co-op. Delivery tradesmen. Coal merchants. Friston Mill. Church Farm. Eddie Driver. Hill Farm Dairy. Riding schools. Importance of horses. Ransome, Sims and Head. Pre-war health insurance. Dr Lloyd. Dr Robin and Dr Nora Acheson. Home visits by doctors. The surgery. Sears the dentist. Aldeburgh policemen: Sergeant Cole and Sergeant Bird. Track 9 (10 minutes) The old Morris Oxford. Living in council houses: The Terrace and Franklin Road. Miss Burgess. Living at 29 Park Road. Darcy Ashford. Dennis and Peggy's six children. J T Pegg and Sons. The business expands . . . and moves across Park Road. Aldeburgh Gasworks, 1926. Two stokers. Dismantling the gas-holder. Manufacturing Pro-Gas heaters and Captain Close's water descaler. Making gas from coal. Aldeburgh railway station. Track 10 (10 minutes) The Aldeburgh Gas Company. The Aldeburgh Generating Company. Converting DC to AC electric current. Accumulators and illuminators. Workshop tools then and now. Trips on the steam train. Trips to London. Aldeburgh characters - Laurie Baggott. Reflection. Looking back. Modern-day life. Hard work. Craftsmanship. Pride in work. Craftsmen of the future. Son and grandson. Leiston Works. Love of work. A good life. Track 11 (3 minutes) High Street shops in the 1930's: Jeffreys' greengrocers (top shop). Bomber Lovett's tobacconists. Salters the butcher. Fisk's grocers. Reade's. Etchell's. Maintaining the Aldeburgh Brickworks machines. The Jubilee Rail. Shodding the cartwheels. Track 12 (8 minutes) Aldeburgh sprats - large catches. Fishermen. Eddie Strowger's father. The Aldeburgh Fishermen's Guild. Transporting the fish. Salting and packing for export. Sprats for the Queen. Spider Fryer. The Ring. Fishermen - Adams, Bill Cady, Easter, Pallant, Strowger, Tom Parnell, Peed, Burrell, Cable, Thorpe. The Esplanade Hotel. Mrs Pettitt's laundry. The coppers. The stoves. Ironing. Fort Green. The fair. The toffs. Track 13 (11 minutes) High Street shops in the 1930's: Knowles the builders. The church roof. The White Hart. Shelley Ward the cobbler. Watson's hardware. Beech's. Gregory the chemists. Ashford's furniture store. WVS. Clark's shoe repairs. Stephenson's. Rickard's flower shop. Etchell's greengrocers. Slaughden Quay. Jumbo Ward. Reuben Woods. Stanley Ashford. The Aldeburgh dustcart. The water cart. The night-soil cart. The filter beds. Upkeeping road surfaces. Aldeburgh Borough Council workers. Track 14 (12 minutes) Making Maggi Hambling's scallop. Working from a shell off the beach. Mr and Mrs Pegg's courtship. His Army training. Their Christmas wedding at the Baptist Church in Halesworth. Problems with the Banns. A special licence. The 1953 flood. The marsh. Park Road. High Street rescues. The sea defences. Piling by steam hammer. |