JOAN CARTER |
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Surname
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Carter
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Forename
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Joan
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Date of recording
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Oct 2012
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Year of birth
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1924
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Place of Birth
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Aldeburgh (Ipswich hospital)
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Occupation
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Domestic, retail, taxi driver
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Fathers occupation
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Boatman, fisherman, wildfowler
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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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Doreen Bartlett
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Duration
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54 Mins
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No of tracks: 6
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This recording consists of 6 tracks.
Track 1 (17 secs) Introduction Track 2 (14.01) Birth, early life at cottage behind White Hart and house in Slaughden Road. Siblings. Father (Jerry Wood) – fisherman/boatman. Memories of Slaughden – Scott’s house, The Hazard, Martello Tower. Holiday makers from London. Meeting with Julian Tennyson (son of Lord T ?). Family outing on river. Car ownership and dickie seat. Learning to swim. Schooldays including names of teachers, uniform, houses, hockey. Mother’s life as housewife. Plymouth Brethren Meeting House in Fawcett Road. Importance of Christian faith. Track 3 (22.42) Parents’ life history. Mother’s (Clara Barley) association with Wentworth (Pritt family). Giant’s armchair (river wall). Early working life as parlour maid to Mrs Reed (Alde House). Wartime working at the chemist with Mr Watt. Courtship and socialising. Tony Carter (husband) national service in Airforce and Tank Corp. Aldeburgh in wartime, guns near Brudenell, evacuation to Alde Lane, evacuees, polishing the air raid shelter! Carter’s family business – garage/motor trade, employee’s names. Taxi work as a couple. Wedding in 1952 at parish church and early married life at seafront flat. Moving to a new house Saxmundham Road. Children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Brother Reuben Wood, coxswain of Aldeburgh Lifeboat. Track 4 (3.04) The Ionia owned by the Wood family. Destroyed by fire. Track 5 (2.05) Story of Margaret Catchpole and Havergate Island. Joan’s childhood visits to the island. Track 6 (12.53) Rowing on the river. Slaughden ferry. Details of businesses in Aldeburgh High Street. |