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AudreyI felt scared and shivered in my bed that night.I soon realised that despite the sadness of the children being away from their families it was an amazingly happy place.
2022-03-2804 minAudreyI decided, sometime ago, to take a section of all the true stories that contributors shared with me.An excellent volunteer with a good social conscious. Thank you for Jo
2022-03-2810 minAudreyComments from Audrey. I recall John with fondness. He chaired Wellingborough Welfare Rights.He worked diligently for many years not only for Welfare Rights but, also for Guide Dogs Associated. Audrey Ellis.
2022-03-2605 minAudreyGeoff Stanfield 1933About a day later there was a knock at the door and mum answered it. There was dad in FSMO (Full Service Marching Order), in other words full kit bag, small pack, respirator, ammunition pouches, tin hat, rifle, bayonet and water bottle. I could hardly see him. My first words were *+"Can I look at your rifle please?" so he showed me how to maintain it.
2022-03-2505 minAudreyI left school at the age of fourteen. I had passed the exam to go to Grammar school.I couldn't go to Grammar School as dad couldn't afford the uniform. I joined the RAF at the age of eighteen. A friend asked me what I was doing during The Battle 0f Britain weekend.
2022-03-1903 minAudreyLes Judkins born 1930I am trying to give a better understanding regarding what life has been like over the last hundred years. All these stories are precious records regarding how our lives have changed. Please let me know what you think. Audrey-Ellis
2022-03-1913 minAudreyI remember October 12th 1942,the biggest day of the Blitz.We had spent the night in a shelter. The following morning we returned home. As mum was walking she kept repeating "I wonder if our house will still be there!" We discovered that five houses down from our house was a Parachute stuck on a chimney. I think that this was enough for mum. As attached to the Parachute was a bomb. This was enough for my parents as they packed our cases and walked away from our home.
2022-02-2101 minAudreyI was stationed at Chatham. We were going to be inspected by King George so we had a few days off.I was in the NAAFI Club. Some sailors had arrived from a Royal Navy ship. They had been sailing the Mediterranean. A young man asked me to dance and then he. asked me to go for a drink. Not long afterwards he asked me to marry him.
2022-02-2102 minAudreyI couldn't be a member of any political party whilst a Salvation Army Officer.I will never change my politics, nothing is perfect and no one is perfect. Life is temporary. Everything around you is temporary, so do what you can. I don't know what will happen tomorrow.
2022-02-2102 minAudreyWe had a lovely time when the Maharajah sent his elephant up. to pick us up.Dad would go shooting if a child had been taken by a wild animal, he would go out and shoot it. We had walls around the houses. Two men, with guns, would always be on guard.
2022-02-2103 minAudreyMona Wallace 1926I was born in Barry, South Wales. During the Second World War, we could see bombs being dropped on Barry Docks. I got a job with British Lion Film Distribution, in Cardiff, as a secretary. When my husband died, I moved to Raunds to be near my son and daughter - in- law. Later, I became unwell and they now take very good care of me. I look forward to coming to Cando-Care now.
2022-02-2101 minAudreyBrenda lived in Yarmouth with her family. Her mum ran a bed and breakfast place.There were fields nearby where women were potato picking. Sadly, they were bombed and all the women were killed. They were hit by doodlebug. You would only know that you were about to be bombed when the engine cut out.
2022-02-2110 minAudreyIt has taken me to interview over 50 people to gather individual life stories.The stories and memorabilia became Memories of Finedon. Finedon is a town in Northamptonshire. I had not intended to write a book but having gathered so much information that the book had to be printed. Thank you Dale. I don't know where you are living now but you did a brilliant job. A friend spent so many hours assisting me in presenting the cover of Memories of Finedon. He also aided me with page layout. It would not have been the same book without his help. Life stories are so important aren't they? They started because, at the time, we...
2022-02-2002 minAudreyOlive Jervis Margaret born 1922,These accounts, you will see, come from people living in different parts of the country. Each has helped to build a valuable picture as to how life has changed.
2022-02-2013 minAudreyMy mother, Dorothy May a Carter was born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire in 1884.My father wasI listened to Jim at Burton Latimer Library. I can still see him in my minds eye.
2022-02-2003 minAudreyOne of my earliest memories I have is at the age of 4, I was playing in the High Street IrthlingboroWhich was my home town, when a soldier came marching up to me by saying "Hello young Bailey" He took me to my own house, for as you may have guessed by now he was my father.
2022-02-2002 minAudreyYou can look forward to hearing stories such as- From playing gigs in a small band we ended up in...A daughter recalls how her father made opera boots for the stage and of her seeing Eroll Flynn at The Derngate Northampton. Now the wireless plays a big part in everyone's life with Children's Hour, on the Home Service from 5pm
2022-02-2010 minAudreyThe following is a brave story about a blind man.In later life he became profoundly death, which he found to be more of a problem than his blindness.
2022-02-1202 minAudreyThe first story in a page.Every Monday father's suit and boots and the girls Sunday clothes were taken to the Pawn Shop. When Nan was 12 she was sent to Elm Court Residential School For The Blind.
2022-02-1203 minAudreyMy own background. Because I had no contact with my paternal family. I tried to accept that I wouldNever find my lost family. I decided helping to leave some history
2022-02-0503 minAudreyEvery individual has a special memory to share.There are over fifty stories from Nan, born 1904 and 1907. Social history during times of peace and war, offering a unique understanding as to how our world has changed over the last hundred years.
2022-02-0511 minAudreyI have self published Memories of Finedon, Lives Less Ordinary initially. How many copies?It wasn't as if I'd attempted anything so scary. Yet, somehow I buried self doubt and began my journey. The reader might be wondering why l would even think about challenging myself. I still wonder about this myself. I think my main thought was if my blind parents, James and Brenda had faced opposition from all quarters then my intention was put firmly into place. I learnt so much about myself. One of my interview's was to take place at the other end of Finedon. I knocked the door of a house that will remain nameless-for obvious reasons. I was...
2022-02-0500 minAudreyLens shares his memories of Wellingborough being bombed on Bank Holiday Monday when a German bomberLen Warner born 1927.My brother was a engine driver. He had passed the eleven plus but mum couldn't pay for his uniform. As he had always dreamt of becoming a train driver he wasn't disappointed about not having a grammar school education. I used to cycle for the ARP in Wellingborough. The unit was based behind what is now Wellingborough library. I clearly remember the Bank Holiday Monday when a German bomber dropped a bomb in Market Street. Four women and two men and one boy were killed and 55 injured.
2022-01-3016 minAudreyRoma Pearce, 1918My grandfather made Windsor Chairs-he would engrave his initials on the bottom of the chair. My uncle was head gardener for Benjamin Disraeli.
2022-01-2143 minAudreyBert Childs, born in Mill Road Wellingborough 1911We moved to Finedon in 1921 and we lived in Wellingborough Road.
2022-01-2103 minAudreyThe first two stories give some insight as to what it was like to be blind. Annie Bradley, born 1905She was born 1905 and was the eighth of ten children. It is a heartwarming tale of the difficulties faced by a blind person. All she wanted was a normal life and this included becoming a wife and mother.
2022-01-2006 minAudreyWithin the covers of Lives Less Ordinary are over 50 contributorsFamily and Social history l history during times of peace and war, offering a unique understanding as to how our world has changed over the last hundred years.
2022-01-1903 minAudreyJean BMy first volunteer. I frequently popped round to her and Mr B flat Her recall was fabulous. She looked now and then at me. Then was away unearthed her past. Su I saw her in a different light. Someone who had really lived a life of full flavour but also. One of dignity and fun. Thankfully there are many more like Jean but all are different with different life puzzles to complete.
2020-06-172h 092020-06-1600 minAudreyThe first contributors of Memories of Finedon.Jean B recalls how her father was injured when the props, that supported the mines, where he was working collapsed smashing his shoulder. He could not afford the to be off work for long. During the war a lot of English soldiers, inn's of Court who were real gentleman, lived, amongst other places in Finedon Jean recalls these men carrying their Billy cans with them as well as tin cups and plates. Albert Loveday who went onto marry, Maud Bates who was born in 1903. They married at Finedon Chapel Albert had fought in Italy in WW1. He later worked as...
2020-06-1502 min2020-06-1301 minAudreyRounding upLives Less Ordinary. Of course we are all unique and with a different story and view to share.
2020-06-1305 min2020-06-1305 minAudreyMy conclusion of Lives Less OrdinaryI thank everyone for their help in. bringing this book to life or listening to the podcasts.
2020-06-1308 minAudreyRachel 1969,My father was born in Huddersfield in 1942. My mother Susan, was born in 1939 and my maternal grandparents were born born in Huddersfield. My father was a maths lecturer at Manders Technical College in Bedford. Mum was a dispensing chemist until I was born. We went to Australia where we backpack9rd for a year We went with a one-way ticket and one thousand pounds each.
2020-06-1309 min2020-06-1221 minAudreyBill WestwoodMy father was a coal porter on a house My father's name was Walter and mother's name was Muriel. I attended Loddington Hall school. I remember it being an old fashion and big house. Social workers sent me to this school. To begin with I was a bit scared. I used to go home from time to time to visit my mum. She lived in Braunston. Mum died when I was sixteen. My nan tried to help me. She was very nice and kind to me. When I was with her she would talk to me about canal boats. She...
2020-06-1202 minAudreyElizabeth Westwood 1967I was always told that I was a special little girl by my parents. Dad was in the Navy when he met mum
2020-06-1208 minAudreyStephen Denny 1963My father was a Herdman on farms. Mum worked as a. Clickie on buses in Northampton. I know that she loved doing this job. During the war she was in the Land Army near Welford where of course, the hours were long. Dad was in the Parachute Regiment and was part of the D-day Landing. He was shot in the face and lost an eye. He then had to have a glass eye fitted.
2020-06-1102 minAudreyJoanne Doctor 1962My mum, Anne Hargin, was born at home on 30th July 1945 My father was born at home on 30
2020-06-111h 18AudreyRichard born 1962M material grandfather was a surgeon. He designed a special car, which can now be seen at Kettering museum. This car had a special operating table that could be pulled out from the back so that the patient could could be operated on there on the spot. I had a happy childhood. Some of my happiest memories revolve around our family's cottage at Ringstead, North Norfolk. My grandfather had made shoe's for Adam Faith and George Best.
2020-06-1115 minAudreyKathleen Stringer 1961My father was born at Woodleys Melbourne in Bedfordshire. He was a garden by profession and worked for the shoe manufacturer, John White of Rushden. Because he worked on the land he was not called up during WW2, but was in the Home GUARD. He told me that when he was on duty, the person he was taking over from, would pass his rifle over as they only had one rifle. He did not like the comedy programme Dads Army because he said that it made fun of the Home GUARD and that it wasn't a laughing matter, it was...
2020-06-1106 minAudreySharon Christopher 1961It was my Nan who instilled in me my love of books. I love Burton Latimer and would not like to live anywhere else. I feel that we are very lucky to have such a wonderful library. It is not just about books though rather it is a community hub. I feel that it is sad that council houses aren't being built anymore. I feel that it might be alright to put up more buildings but children won't have enough to do. Where have all our lovely shops gone? I do love going to. The Dinet
2020-06-1005 minAudreyClaire Byrne, 1959I was christened in the same church where mum got married. My husband, Terry was born in Dublin 1956. During our long summer holidays we would have day trips Sometimes we would have holidays in Norfolk. We didn't do Butlins or Pontins. I remember being in the Brownies and later the Guides. I trained as a Dental nurse when I left school. I remember buying Needless and Pins by the Searchers. I married my husband, Terry, in 1987 at St Andrews Church, Hornchurch. We moved to Luton soon after we were married.
2020-06-1014 min2020-06-1004 minAudreyAnonymous contributions.Many happy hours were spent fishing down at Finedon Mill. I delivered newspapers for the Newspapers on the A6.
2020-06-0906 minAudreyValerie Anne Hyett 1954A life story that begins in London with the birth of Valerie Hyett. Not only does she record her own life story, that of her family but also the deprivation and loss in London. The WW2 and it's impact on London. On a lighter note she recalls living near Helen Shapiro and the Beverly Sisters. Then her moving away from London Another valuable contribution.
2020-06-091h 35AudreyA shoe workerWhen the film Kinky Boots, was made they used some of the shoe workers that worked in the shoe factory. It is so sad that we no longer have any shoe factories in Finedon. It's a skilled trade but sadly much of this skill is lost now. I am now working in a shoe factory.
2020-06-0912 minAudreyJill Johnson, 1954I was born in Hackney hospital, London. I went to Clapton Park Secondary School, where Helen Shapiro also attended. My dad was a gunner. I had visions of him being at. the back of an aircraft shooting the enemy. It was only much later when I realised how dangerous his job was. I remember bathing in a tin bath in front of the fire.. I was to much later in life form Cando Care together with my friend Kath. I have three adult sons now.
2020-06-0810 minAudreyJohn O'"Rourke 1952We lived in a tied cottage in Chelveston. Although we were a large family our parents worked very hard to ensure that we did not go without. I have very happy childhood memories of our family living in Chelveston. We lived in a tied cottage. I remember them buying a television, from Obermans for fifteen shillings.
2020-06-0810 minAudreyRonald Clayton 1951Before getting married my grandmother had lived at 10 Orchard Terrace and had been employed as a machinist in a local shoe factory. Her father Alan Church, was a shepherd, somewhere out Woodford way. There was no radio in in dad's house as they could not afford one. Such things, dad was told, were not for the likes of them.
2020-06-0722 minAudreyMargaret and Ted BoddingtonOn cold and wet days Ted, sometimes Margaret, would pop round and take care of whoever wasn't yet at school. I can recall returning from school to discover our front room transformed into a adventure playground with cushions off of the settee and cushion becoming imaginary horses.
2020-06-0701 minAudreyBob Denton 1951My father, Harry Frederick Denton, was born in Rushden in 1912, whilst my mother, Alice Edith née Ingyon, was born in Little Addington in 1910. My maternal grandfather, Robert Walter, was born in 2878 at Irthlingborough. My great grandad and great great grandad lived in a Wheelwrights and worked as a wheelwright.
2020-06-0707 minAudreyAudrey Ellis (Nesbitt) born 1950My father's great grandfather Ogilvy worked in the shipyards as a6 caulker and cutter working with red hot steel and only having seconds to fit. He was in the Militia and volunteered to go to Ypres where he was sadly killed. He was a Lance Corporal and was billeted in a French Alms house. He was hit with a coal box bomb which exploded and spat out its deadly contents. My grandfather was a miner in Sunderland before moving to Coventry in 1942 where he helped the war effort at Roots Shadow Factory building aeroplanes. He then trained as a metal...
2020-06-0618 minAudreyArthur Knowles born 1950My mother's maiden name was Joyce Lillian Douglas. She was born in Willesden. Her family were evacuated in the war. Initially some of the family went to Long Buckby to live whilst mum moved to Finedon, but all the family were eventually re-united and lived in Ewenfield Road. Dad lived with his parents in Regent Street. He met his wife to be at Star Hall in 1947:there were regular dances there then. Mum's mum and dad's mum were big friends My mum and dad were married at Finedon Parish Church in 1948. Mum worked at Gammidges in the closing room whilst...
2020-06-0607 minAudreyGeorge O'leary born 1950I was born in Dublin. My parents were Olive (née Green) born 8th August 1920 and Louis, born 4th April 1920. I have two brothers and two sisters. Mum worked in a shop prior to her marriage. Dad was a musician who played in a band called "The Jack Silver Band '. This band toured southern Ireland. I have had various jobs Locally I have worked at through out my life. I have worked at Wicksteed Park as an operations manager. I worked for them for 15 years. I was then head hunted to work at Stanwick Lakes There are so many o...
2020-06-0608 minAudreyAlan 1949I was born in Peterborough, at the Gables Nursing Home. M mother, Peggy Wright, was born May 1924 at Sawtry. Mum had originally lived at Deeping St James when she got married. My father, George, was born at Deeping St James in 1923. I was originally pushed into the river when I was about three : a fisherman, John Baker, fished me out. Mum worked at Woolworths in Peterborough. This was how she met my dad. She later finished up as a cleaner at the base operation room at Alconbury. She was one of the last people the airman would see before going...
2020-06-0606 minAudreyShanti PawI fled from Amin's Uganda in 1970 to avoid imprisonment, only to be jail in Greece, Austria and France en route to Britain. For significant safety reasons I decided to leave the country my parents had moved to from India and, with my British passport, headed for England. The arduous journey by ship, train and coach was one which I will never forget. I joined others fleeing Uganda but our group was imprisoned. In Athens we ran out of money Athens I had to sneak into the hotel where my group was staying. I slept on the floor. Read what happens...
2020-06-0602 minAudreyPete Innes 1947 Jenny 1948I was to later become totally involved with the book 'Those That Didn't. A small committee of local people were involved who knew how important this book was to the Finedon community. Northamptonshire Community Foundation gave a grant of £4,800 which allowed 236 books to be printed. Jenny said that her parents met each other when they were based in the RAF at Catterick. Mum was helping with barrage balloons whilst dad was a navigator. He was a bright man. Nan Belbin did everything she could to stop mum marrying dad. She sent mum's trunk back to Scotland.. However, they married at t...
2020-06-051h 44AudreyLife stories from Maureen Ricker born 1946. Peter Thomas Inns 1947 and Jenny 1948I was born in Tennessee and lived with paternal grandfather on his tobacco farm. Dad had been stationed at Thurleigh, Bedfordshire.. One of his jobs was to load the bomb's onto the planes then unload casualties upon the planes return. Peter told me that his grandad worked at Phipls Brewery. This work was interrupted when he enlisted in November 1914. He was in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, then transferred to the Cheshire Regiment, then transferred back to the Yeomanry. He was at the first battle of the Somme. The next contribution came from Jenny.
2020-06-0532 minAudreyDiane 1946 and Maureen Ricker 1946My mother was Joan Bryant and father Thomas Radmore who was born in Plymouth 1917. Father was in the Royal Marines so travelled around a lot. I married my first husband at Fareham in 1965. He worked as a Civil Electrical Engineer on helicopters at Gosport but he later became a youth leader and trained at Leicester. I have been a member of of St Mary's Parish Church and trained as a Pastoral Minister. I loved this. I am a member of the Seagrave Singers where Sue Reid leads us. Maureen My mum sailed on the Queen Elizabeth 1 in January 1946 and I...
2020-06-0407 minAudreyLinda 1946I am one of the much maligned baby boomers. We lived in a cottage where there was no indoor sanitation, no running of water, an outside toilet, a tin bath and a well in a neighbouring garden. My grandfather sold his vegetables at Covent garden. He grew his own Christmas tree s.
2020-06-0307 minAudreyVivienne Karin 1946 and Margaret 1946Margaret told me that she was sent to a nursery when she was three. Put into a taxi for the first part of her journey She was sent to a boarding school when she was nine. She was to spend. many months away from her family.
2020-06-0315 minAudreyMargaret 1946When I was three, I was sent to a nursery which was near Moorfields hospital. I had to go in a taxi on my own for part of the way.. I was then put into a taxi with deaf and dumb children. When I was about four I was brought back by coach. I then went to Boarding school in Liverpool when I was nine. I did not see my sighted friends again. Local children, at Liverpool, went home at the weekend, whilst those of us who lived further away from home remained at school. It was quite hard for...
2020-06-0308 minAudreyEileen Hollingsworth 1945 and Vivienne Karin 1946My father was born on the 7th December 1910 whilst my mother, Evelyn Tailby was born on the 22nd September 1913,. Her brothers owned E. A Tailby, heel builders of Bath Road Kettering. My father's mother lived in Rothwell.Sadly dad's father went away to The First World War but he did not come back.
2020-06-0224 minAudreyTwo life stories from Madge, who was trained at John White training school in Rushden to make shoesJohn Smith 1945 was born in Hunstanton. My grandfather was too young to join the army until 1917 and was at Passchendaele, near Ypres. He was wounded three times, came back to recuperate, then returned. I developed seed xray machines and was gi two million pounds grant to develop this machine by a Swiss company. Sandos.. We used to host Lalique events. He was a famous man who designed jewellery. I now collect these medals. Lord Lovats scouts were based in Hunstanton. They would later become the DSS. His son was nickname Shimmy. He was known for landing on the Sword beach...
2020-05-3109 minAudreyColin Howitt 1944 and Mike Busby 1944I am at King's Cross at 5.30pm with neither a job or anywhere to live. I went to the Salvation Army hostel the following Monday. They offered me a job making bonnets. Then, two months later, I was offered another job by The Salvation Army. I was employed as a Dad was a Sergeant in the Home Guiler man. Mike Busby was a Sergeant in the Home GUARD during the Blitz. Mum was an ambulance driver through out the war including service during the Blitz. The man was an ex member of Hitler waffen DD who hired. Himself out. as...
2020-05-3042 minAudreyI was sleeping in the bottom drawer of a chest of drawers. I would have been about 2.. I remember the Bandstand in Castle Fields in Wellingborough. A lot of people would go there.
2020-05-301h 23AudreyMavis Collis 1943Mavis was born in North Middlsex Hospital, Edmonton. She was ten years younger than her sister Iris. The family spent the war years in London. They had made an attempt to be evacuated to Lincolnshire but this was a struggle for her parents as Mavis mum was blind and her dad had very little sight and was deaf. They returned during the worst spell of bombing and stayed "under the stairs" or "under the table". A heartwarming insight.
2020-05-2817 minAudreyRoy York 1942I was born in Vine Yard High Street West in Irthlingborough. The yard was self contained with communal washing lines, a well in the middle and lavatories right away down the far end. My father was Gerald York (1900 - 1974 and was one of thirteen
2020-05-271h 06AudreyCynthia Bailey born 1941I was Hinckley Leicestershire to Olive and Louis Stanley Markham. My dad worked on the farm growing up born in Nottinghamshire and e
2020-05-2516 minAudreyRoger Knight 1941I was born in Bournemouth to George Frank and Mabel Florence - maiden name Petty. My father had one sister whilst my mother had one sister and two brothers. Mum's family came from Bransgore in Hampshire. Both mums brothers were in the forces, one in RAF whilst the other was in the army. I believe that mum worked in a shop until I was born.
2020-05-2522 minAudreyJohn Northern 1941I was born in one of the cottages in the High Street, opposite the Band Club. I remember that there was a pump in the middle of the courtyard. My father, Reginald Ernst, was born in Burton on the 23rd April 1906. My mother was born in Burton on the in 1903. Her name was Doris Mabel née Clipstone. Dad worked in the shoe trade before joining the RAF. My father was on the village bookmakers. His offices were right next to Coles Boot factory, which was in Piggotts Lane.,where the Fire Station is now. Mum was in service in B...
2020-05-2503 minAudreyRichard Fox 1941I was born in a little village called, Lynton, North Devon. Many fat9 Bill, was 75 when he died. My mother, Joan, died in 1988. She used to work in in little cafe called the Greenhouse Cafe. Dad worked cutting down trees, using what was called I went to Coomber Martin School and then went to Secondary Modern School. I left school when I was 15. I then went to work in a bakery where mum worked. I did all the washing up. I stayed in this job for the next two years. I then went to London to work on the trains...
2020-05-2402 minAudreyMy mum was in service at Baker Street, London. Dad, Edward George, born 1911.On my mother's side my great -great grandfather was an engine driver. My grandfather was a platform porter. My father was a postman at Winslow. My grandfather, Edward James Kirby, was in the Royal West Kent Regiment. He was in the Boer War in. 1894. He was awarded the Southern African Star 1901 -1902. I have all his medals. He volunteered for the First World. He was at the Somme.
2020-05-2407 minAudreyJoan McCannJohn Carter. Graham I worked at Woolworths as a Saturday girl. Belgrade Theatre I worked as a Casting Director. So many hours were spent going into drama school s. It was my job to find people to fit the There were so many actors for me to watch.I think that I was always looking for someone who was different Sometimes the set would in what seemed to be huge factories. I worked on the Bill, Wire in the Blood and Rocket Man. Robson Green is a lovely man. I was really sad when The Bill closed. We felt like...
2020-05-2416 minAudreyJohn Roland Langley, 1938William Coomber I worked for Lovells who distributed sweets to shops all over the country. My wife's father never spoke about t war. His ship was torpedoed twice. His mate thought that he had been killed. He had been firing guns. His mate went back for him. He found him. half dead and carried him back over his shoulder.
2020-05-2310 minAudreyPamela Buska. Sylvia Smith.My grandmother returned from being a prisoner of War for three years in WW1. My father said that he was like a skeleton when he came home and that he had breathing problems because he been gassed in the trenches. He had lived mainly on cabbages. The Nazis burst into the classroom where my boyfriend was studying. He had hoped to become a lawyer. All the students were taken to a concentration camp. He managed to escape. My father worked as a Loom Over looker which was a very important job.. Another interesting fact is that he wove the cone...
2020-05-2320 minAudreyGilly Winser 1935. Thurleigh, a North Bedfordshire village.My father was a Master Thatcher and one of a family of 11. Mother was an only child whose parents kept the village shop. They had a carrier business (horses and carriage that ran people into town either to shop or to catch the train.. They also worked a small holding. It was here that I spent many happy years. One morning my mother asked me to wash up but I refused. As a punishment she sent me to the cowshed to help my grandmother. I loved it there.. I loved it going for walks and picking wild flowers, making pretend...
2020-05-2232 minAudreyGeoff Stanfield born 1933 One amusing story that dad told me was that one Christmas my grandad cameHome carrying just the head and neck of a turkey. Apparently someone had cut off the body when he was on the tram earlier. Public transport consisted of trams and buses with the rear exposed to the elements. Steam trains were. always a delight to ride on. We watched the massive build up of the forthcoming invasion, D-day. The convoys of tanks army lorries and guns used to slow down at the junction where our house stood. We got a look at everything. Little did we know that a week after D-day on June 13th the dreaded V1 or doodle...
2020-05-2217 minAudreyThe TT is only something you fantasise about Here I was at 59.I continued racing side cars. You can never understand why such trag happened. I built a bungalow in Burton Latimer. We were allowed a penny a day to feed each soldier. We were subsidised by the NAAFI. My father w3a stock man. The lavatory was still an earth toilet at the bottom of our garden.
2020-05-2100 minAudreyMy Christian faith was important to me.A field was bombed near to us.. We ate turnips for ages.
2020-05-2125 minAudrey1904 to Family and Social history. Gives a glimpse of how life once wThe bed's were required for wounded soldiers coming back from the First World War. A Morriston Shelter was installed room under which they would all sleep. My dad was a builder. He built many builders in War time Memories. I remember making black out frames when Chamberlain declared War in Sept 1939. We used to have air raid wardens walking around telling you off if you smoked in the street. I remember June 8th X day to and the landing of Infrantry Craft from Newhav where we were stationed waiting for the invasion. We were forced to wade up to our...
2020-05-182h 50AudreySo much Social history is covered here. I have decided to share these stories with you.I feel each of the following stories connects with the stories of other people in a variety of ways. grasp of life, prior 2 my birth in 1950 has been really enriched. No one can step into the shoe's of other people. It has been a revelation to have had that opportunity to understand.
2020-05-177h 57AudreyLen Warner 2927 dad died when I was 8Lens story covers life in Wellingborough. War times in Wellingborough. I used to cycle for the ARP in Wellingborough. The unit was based behind what is now Wellingborough library. I remember the German plane going to bomb Coventry. I clearly remember Wellingborough being bombed on a Bank Holiday
2020-05-1710 minAudreyMy father was a craftsman who made opera boots for the stage. I loved the day when I went to LyonsRonald, my husband, was in the Royal Air Force during the war. He created the diets for the officers.. I had a friend who knew Errol Flynn, as he had stayed at their boarding house.
2020-05-1610 minAudreyI worked as a kitchen maid in a big house. I had half a day a week off.Memories of Wellingborough and how it has changed. It was a lovely market town.
2020-05-1512 minAudreyJim,born 1920 An vast amount of information within this story.The Jarrow March was not backed by a particular party.. After the war dad returned to the Metropolitan Railway. Everyone was so poor then.
2020-05-1427 minAudreyI have found it truly rewarding and fascinatingWar Time memories. School memories.Resilience and humour in spite of hard ship.
2020-05-1307 minAudreySome life stories are about people living in Finedon, or have lived in Finedon.I see it as a collection of stories. Stories that knit together and that join us together.
2020-05-1205 minAudreyWe meet, Annie Bradley, born in 1905,one of 8 children.I feel that this story is a shocking revelation as to live. Resilience and utter deter comes to mind.
2020-05-1204 minAudreyYou can look forward to hearing so much more regarding how life has changed since 1904I begin with the story of Annie, a blind lady. Tough times to.
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