Z1205/013

Male brick worker b. 09.07.1934 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

21 May 2001

From: 1930 To: 2001

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London Brick Company,
Marston Valley Brick Company Limited,
Eastwood & Co.

farm worker, brick worker, hedging, potatoes, M1, milkman, trees, wages/conditions, injury, poaching, gardening, mangelwurzels, CRANFIELD, RIDGMONT, STEWARTBY, KEMPSTON, Kempston Hardwick