Reference
Z1205/013
Title
Male. Brick worker b. 09.07.1934
Date free text
21 May 2001
Production date
From: 1930 To: 2001
Scope and Content
Manual worker, lived all his life in Cranfield and worked in a variety of jobs in Marston Vale, including farming, bricklaying and 25 years working at the brickworks. His father was a hedge-layer and worked as a labourer in the Ridgmont brickworks.
Side A
(00 mins)Hedge-laying with Father, as a boy; long walks across the fields to work; Father's work at Ridgmont brickyard in 1930s
(15 mins)Schooldays; potato picking
(25 mins)"Worzles" (turnips)
(32 mins)End of Side A
Side B
(00 mins)Farm work; "worzles"
(5 mins)milking; M1 motorway building locally
(10 mins)Tree felling
(15 mins)Marriage
(20 mins)Cranfield 'born and bred'; Stewartby brickworks
(25 mins)Bricklaying at brick works; chicken farming
(32 mins)End of Side B
SIDE A,Continued from 013C
(Tape 00 onwards)Kempston Hardwick brickworks; shifts; processes; procedures;work conditions;
(15 mins) accidents;
(20 mins) extruding
(25 mins) poaching
SIDE B
(Tape 00 onwards)changing employment; attitudes to employment; gardening,gardening club & competitions
(12 mins)End of Side B.END OF INTERVIEW
Original Interview100 mins
Language
English
Reference
Level of description
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