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Male. Brickworker, forester and farmworker for London Brick Company b. 28.09.1922. Side A (00 mins)Born in Cranfield. Father - gamekeeper. Family of 9 (5 m/2 f)Early sight of slaughterhouse activities. (5mins)Walks through Hulcot Wood. Watching hand milking (10 mins)Tarl End cottages. Father - horseman in First World War. Shell shock. (15 mins)Poor family - subsisted through snaring rabbits (20 mins)Home near Millbrook Station. Racing pigeons released by railway staff on Sundays, for races. (25 mins) Moorhen eggs for breakfast. Muckspreading. London Brick Co. official "shoots", almost every other week, during shooting season. As a boys, employed as a "beater". Wide range of birds and other wild life in area. (32 mins) End of Side A Side B (00 mins)Farm work for London Brick. Market Gardening at Maulden. (5 mins)School years. Potato picking holidays. (10 mins)Leaving school. Started work at Stewartby, making bricks. (15 mins)9 horses & 4 workers on London Brick Farm. Friends fought in Second World War. (20 mins)Mixed farming: animals and arable. War-time Agricultural Executive. Move to forestry for London Brick Co. Worked 49 yrs. for LBC. (25 mins) Retirement at 63 yrs. Late marriage, aged nearly 30 yrs. Had 3 children. Original interview 32 mins End of Side B

24 May 2001

From: 1920 To: 2001

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London Brick Farms Limited,
London Brick Company

market gardener, gamekeeper, forestry worker, farm worker, brick worker, slaughterhouses, World War One, World War Two, agricultural labourer, shell shock, birds, pigeons, potatoes, rabbits, horsekeeper, MAULDEN, MILLBROOK, CRANFIELD, HULCOTE & SALFORD