track |
description |
time |
Play |
 |
Barbara
Clarke |
1 |
Babara’s dad, his name and various jobs in Stroud |
1:00 |
|
2 |
Barbara as a member of the Crazy Gang |
0:41 |
|
3 |
Attending Youth Club & a German POW as a goalkeeper |
0:51 |
|
 |
Betty
Townsend |
1 |
Betty’s father at the Gas Works |
2:13 |
|
2 |
Betty’s work at Woodchester Saw Mills |
1:52 |
|
 |
Ida
Schill |
1 |
Ida from Austria as weaver and driving instructor in Stroud |
2:52 |
|
2 |
how Ida (sweet as apple cider) met her husband. |
0:49 |
|
 |
Imelda
Kucharzyszyn |
1 |
Imelda delivering sandwiches to Tom Neil her bargee grandfather at Wallbridge lock. Aged 6 or 7 in 1932 |
1:39 |
|
2 |
Imelda and local religions |
0:38 |
|
3 |
the ladies room in the pub |
0:34 |
|
4 |
Granny as cleaner in the Police station and the drunks’ breakfast |
0:54 |
|
5 |
buying cheap meat in the Shambles Market |
1:04 |
|
6 |
Imelda’s mothers’ household water arrangements |
1:45 |
|
7 |
Imelda’s father volunteered for WW1 at the age of 16. He told her about the mud and privation. |
1:47 |
|
8 |
her father couldn’t find work after WW1, until he worked for the GWR and traveled to Stroud. |
1:06 |
|
9 |
Kid’s street games – reciting a rhyme in chorus and what sounds like a hide and seek game without the hide bit. |
0:21 |
|
10 |
Street game – hide and seek with a pile of stones. |
0:33 |
|
11 |
Schoolyard games – Tin-I-Aki. Girls/boys call and response song game. |
2:07 |
|
12 |
More street games, hide and seek variation. Sounds like it should be called ” kick-a-brick “. Curfew was 7pm. |
1:26 |
|
13 |
Snow was deeper in the 1930’s. More of the ” knocking on doors ” wheeze. |
1:19 |
|
14 |
Imelda talking broad Strouward |
0:20 |
|
15 |
Grandparent as a lamplighter, and great grandparents who came to Stroud from Ireland to escape the famine. |
1:01 |
|
16 |
Imelda meets Laurie Lee twice. |
0:56 |
|
17 |
Imelda remembers the way they bought milk, and the Coop bread deliveries by horse and cart |
1:26 |
|
18 |
Winstones ice cream deliveries by motorbike and sidecar |
2:26 |
|
19 |
Imelda is frightened of the canal after a neighbour’s jest |
0:56 |
|
20 |
describing the alleyways they call, locally, a churn |
0:22 |
|
21 |
as a child – Christmas carols and easter egg painting. Pace eggs |
1:38 |
|
22 |
and summer outings to Weston-super-Mare |
1:23 |
|
23 |
and a school trip to Cheltenham to ride the helter-skelter |
1:22 |
|
24 |
how she met her husband |
1:01 |
|
25 |
a clearer version of ” Three Dukes “ |
0:47 |
|
24 |
Imelda and Joyce singing a rhyme they sang as kids. |
0:17 |
|
26 |
Imelda singing rhymes used for skipping, and reciting another rhyme. |
1:00 |
|
27 |
another day, another version or Tin-I-Aki |
1:41 |
|
 |
Iris
Burford |
1 |
Iris working in the ARP control room & the sound of wartime bombs |
1:50 |
|
2 |
Iris’s family members in Old Bisley Rd and shop there |
4:17 |
|
3 |
Characters in Stroud – Dorcas Juggins and her husband George |
1:14 |
|
4 |
Iris at Christmas and grandfather’s christmas presents. |
0:32 |
|
5 |
Iris and how she sees horses |
0:17 |
|
6 |
Iris’s father-in-law and his taxi firm |
0:34 |
|
7 |
Iris remembering her school now made into a Registry Office |
0:20 |
|
8 |
Iris remembers her schooldays and her teachers |
3:52 |
|
9 |
the Railway Station announcer at Gloucester Station |
1:20 |
|
 |
John
Manns |
1 |
John’s grandfather (Bill Hunt) collecting coal in a horse & cart at Dudbridge |
0:51 |
|
2 |
grandfather’s horse stops and won’t move for grandmother |
0:59 |
|
3 |
John and his time as a musician |
2:22 |
|
4 |
John’s schooldays and school leaving |
0:50 |
|
5 |
John’s ‘snobbing’, jobs and time as an army conscript |
2:32 |
|
6 |
when John was young |
1:25 |
|
 |
Joyce
Hart |
1 |
Thrupp boat building and trips on boats |
0:33 |
|
2 |
Granny Ball’s sweet shop and scrumps |
1:04 |
|
3 |
husband Ken working on the buses |
0:34 |
|
4 |
Joyce telling about places and names |
1:11 |
|
5 |
Joyce talks broad Gloucestershire. |
0:35 |
|
6 |
more words and pronunciation of Gloucestershire |
1:38 |
|
7 |
The Workhouse inmates near Summer St & how it got its name |
1:16 |
|
8 |
games in the school playground |
0:21 |
|
9 |
Joyce recounts a skipping rhyme. |
0:44 |
|
10 |
Joyce recalling 2 different milk sellers in the Stroud area |
0:44 |
|
11 |
remembering the “Cwop” (aka Coop) horse and cart bread van, as a child |
1:58 |
|
12 |
as an adult working in the “Cwop” shops |
0:34 |
|
13 |
how they coped with a mother’s depression, in those days. A struggle! |
0:33 |
|
14 |
As a mother herself, determined to give her kids cuddles and treats – a trip to Winstones |
0:13 |
|
15 |
Joyce recalls working at Hill Paul building and clothing firms there. And how work was organised |
1:29 |
|
16 |
working at Bensons where they made ring binders |
1:36 |
|
17 |
collecting cigarette cards, and similar sales inducements with tea |
1:33 |
|
18 |
Childhood dance games, Oranges and Lemons |
0:24 |
|
19 |
familiar phrase for the Births, Marriages and deaths |
0:06 |
|
20 |
Sliding down the winter road and the farmer who did also |
0:50 |
|
21 |
Carol singing and being recognised for your voice |
0:35 |
|
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Tom & Lillian
Jones |
7 |
Tom & Lillian Jones as farm hands and living on the farm |
3:12 |
|
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Madelaine
Stinchcombe |
1 |
Madelaine at school and work |
1:59 |
|
2 |
swimming in a pool near the Walbridge lock on the canal |
1:38 |
|
 |
Peggy
Deuten |
1 |
Peggy Sunday School teacher at the age of 13 |
0:56 |
|
2 |
Peggy’s Grandfather after 9 children left home & his fine new house. |
0:35 |
|
3 |
Games in the school playground |
0:52 |
|
4 |
How the influx of evacuees during the war affected Peggy’s school |
1:19 |
|
5 |
Songs she sung at school. “Come to the Fair” |
0:53 |
|
6 |
how Peggy’s father & mother met. And he uncle in Frampton on Severn |
1:10 |
|
7 |
how she met her husband, with the help of a pen-friend |
0:43 |
|
8 |
dances in the Stonehouse Sub Rooms and the kinds of dances they did there. |
1:06 |
|
9 |
Peggy learning dance at the Waverley Dance School and performing in concerts around Gloucestershire during WW2. |
1:28 |
|
10 |
some of the main shops in Stroud Town centre |
2:43 |
|
11 |
Taking the train from the LMS station in Stonehouse to Stroud when the buses stopped due to snow. |
1:57 |
|
12 |
the railcar, the buses and trains to Bristol from Stonehouse. |
0:34 |
|
13 |
seeing the Bristol Brabazon flying over Stonehouse and laughing at Lord Haw-Haw get the facts wrong. (He broadcast from Germany during WW2 and was an Irish citizen) |
1:44 |
|
14 |
when Peggy got her first TV – by 1953 – certainly. |
0:34 |
|
15 |
houseboats on the canal and a time before WW2. Plus Stonehouse Ocean. |
1:13 |
|
16 |
a couple of old sayings, not that peggy believes them. Hopscotch explained a bit. |
0:56 |
|
17 |
Bradley’s shoeshop in Stonehouse 1930s & 40s, the Prudential & horses & carts. |
1:16 |
|
18 |
Raggy Smith the rag & bone man |
0:49 |
|
19 |
Peggy talking about her mother’s work |
0:43 |
|
 |
Christine
Miller |
1 |
Christine’s father – shoe repairer |
1:28 |
|
2 |
Christine’s School days |
1:02 |
|
3 |
Christine’s first job & first boy-friend |
1:12 |
|
 |
Hilda
Blackwell |
1 |
Hilda’s first job, and then her second |
2:22 |
|
2 |
Hilda’s husband and what he did for a living. Can you guess what a heyward is? |
1:15 |
|
3 |
Hilda’s school days in Minchinhampton and Brimscombe Polytechnic, and does a bit of running |
1:18 |
|
4 |
two houses to home a family of 10, and filling the bath with buckets of hot water. |
0:55 |
|
5 |
Game as a child, and Minchinhampton Youth Club. |
1:19 |
|
6 |
Minch Chapel, and the vicar. Car journeys with him. |
0:59 |
|
7 |
helping her friend’s dad mow down ant hills. Riding on the mower is a bumpy business |
1:44 |
|
8 |
Saturday dances in the Market Hall. |
0:53 |
|
9 |
Playing in Gatcombe Woods and singing in the church. |
1:56 |
|
10 |
Courting in Minchinhampton, dances and country dancing at the youth club. |
1:44 |
|
11 |
Shops in Minchinhampton and Doctor Brown. |
0:58 |
|
12 |
the well in Tetbury St, the Forge, Sweet shop and Cobblers. |
1:06 |
|
13 |
Working as assistant to a second hand cum antique dealer. |
1:27 |
|
14 |
remembering Brimscombe Port when she was at Brimscombe Polly. |
0:32 |
|
15 |
using the rotating arms in the sewage farm as a funfair ride |
0:49 |
|
16 |
a couple of old sayings about rain. |
0:09 |
|
 |
Roy
Fellows |
1 |
Roy’s father and his schools, and trips abroad |
2:04 |
|
2 |
Roy’s memory of shops in Stonehouse and Stroud |
1:01 |
|
3 |
the cinemas, local transport and working in the petrol station |
1:09 |
|
4 |
some of the places Roy worked at |
0:23 |
|
5 |
Roy is the focus of attention from the police because he owns a car at 17! And he remembers the Hot 8’s gang. |
0:23 |
|
6 |
remembering Granny Balls sweet shop and the Coop on the Cross |
0:23 |
|
6 |
school uniform from Mullins, Roy & Peggy describe a Providence Cheque used to pay for it. |
0:49 |
|
6 |
Milk cart provides manure for the rhubarb. |
0:25 |
|
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Valerie
West |
1 |
Valerie’s schooldays, as a child & adult. And her husband working |
2:04 |
|
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Valerie
Cullimore |
1 |
Grandfather worked on the Sharpness canal boats, carrying chocolate |
1:04 |
|
2 |
Father does some jallopy racing |
1:32 |
|
3 |
Boyfriend Ian Stone |
1:34 |
|
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Mary
Stark |
1 |
Sunday school in Nailsworth |
0:50 |
|
2 |
growing up in Newmarket in the 1940s. Schools and cinema. |
1:50 |
|
3 |
her first job in Nailsworth making paper car parts, and the next one in Stonehouse |
0:48 |
|
4 |
country dancing in Nailsworth Town Hall, |
1:07 |
|
5 |
rock & roll dances in Stonehouse Community Centre |
0:53 |
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|
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Rose
Hollis |
1 |
what brought Rose to Stroud |
1:04 |
|
2 |
2 houses in Landsdown to house 6 children |
0:52 |
|
3 |
without enough money couldn’t afford buses & trains. Rose did dressmaking to make ends meet |
1:34 |
|
4 |
going to the Salvation Army when the kids were small. |
1:19 |
|
5 |
shopping in Stroud for groceries etc |
1:16 |
|
6 |
motorbiking lodgers meet up at Rose’s house. |
0:44 |
|
7 |
going for walks along the canal, because buses cost too much! |
1:03 |
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