PAULINE KERRIDGE
Surname
Pauline
Forename
Kerridge
Date of recording
Nov  2016
Year of birth
1944
Place of Birth
Norwich
Occupation
Hosewife, housekeeper, bar restaurant work Crown, Golden Key
Fathers occupation
Army, Maltings,Farmer, caretaker
Present Address
Snape
Location Interview
Snape
Interviewer

Summary
David Robertson
Duration
44 Mins
No of Tracks: 5
Track 1    Introduction
Track 2 (12:40)
Family and childhood in Snape.
Pauline was born in 1944. Mother auxiliary Nurse at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; Father in the Army- Suffolk Regt. until 1947. After Pauline’s birth mother stopped work and they moved to join family in Snape. Culture shock moving from Norwich house with all mod cons to one with no flush toilet, electricity only downstairs, no bathroom, water from a village pump, no running water and black leaded kitchen range. Pauline had three brothers and two sisters sharing one bedroom and grandfather in another. Grandfather’s job at the Maltings and Grandma walked the sailors path to work at  Reade’s brickworks. Father’s jobs at the Maltings, farming, and Bentwaters. History of houses in the Glebes and her family; father lived at no12 from the age of two till he was 95. Typical of that time that several members of the family lived very near each other;  with their houses in the Glebes still the case today.
First day at Snape school aged 4. Memories of school. Formal lessons. Inkwells; biros invented later.  Heavy discipline. Girls played at front of  school, boys at the back. Rationing and village shop; first sweets. Swimming lessons in the river.  Games children played in own time. Sports field always busy. When she was 14 Pauline moved to the ‘modern’ school
 Track 3 (12.40) 
Pauline’s teenage jobs and social life. Snape village life and shops.
Village children playing on Snape Blaxhall and Knodishall Commons. Left school at 15. Worked in Saxmundham at the Bell Hotel, then at the Glassworks - manufacturing scientific products ( sited near the Queens Head ), then worked at  Sizewell A in the canteen, followed by Leiston canning factory (near St Margarets Church .) When she got married, she worked at the turkey farm in Sternfield.
Met husband, Graham at school, engaged at 16 and married at 19. Teenage social life; poor bus service so biked to village dances and to Aldeburgh and to local band -‘Wild Oats’ . Annual train trip to Ipswich and Co-op Fete. Village life in Snape; supportive, everyone knew everyone else. A variety of shops since closed. Lived in various houses , Black cottages Snape, Leiston, Kelsale, Iken then back to Snape when Graham went to work for the Gooderham’s Animal Feed business at the Maltings
Track 4 (12.40)
Changes in the village.
After leaving Gooderham’s Graham became a long distance lorry for the rest of his working life. Pauline raised the family of two boys and two girls. All still live nearby. Expense of housing locally.  As her children growing up and beyond, she worked for many years at the Crown and Golden Key. 
Pubs much busier then. G.Key rarely had a slack night.  Effect of closure of Bentwaters and the Maltings. Village changed now. Once knew everybody now very few. Village has expanded but services declined.
Now fifth generation of family at school. Curriculum then and now. 11+  Biking to Middle School
Track 5 ( 6.35)   
​ Reflections on future for villages
Reflections her experience at school. Best and worst of times for her. 60s best.  Bringing up a family on limited resources difficult. Future for villages?. Lack of really affordable houses means villages likely to be retirement places. No jobs for young people in the village. No resources for those stuck at home. Her advice to grandchildren.