Z1205/027

Female, from farming family in Clapham b. 28.04.1942 SIDE A (00 mins)Family at Box End, Kempston to 1947, then Park Farm, Clapham. 12 Italian prisoners of war working on farm during Second World War. Dairy farm. Milk round. (5 mins)Family background in farming. Grandparents. Reference to dummy aircraft bases in Wootton area to distract enemy from Cranfield airfield during WWII. (10 mins)(Paternal) Grandmother - very active in women's groups: Women's Institute, Women's Guild, women's Rotary (15 mins)Maternal grandparents. Great-grandparents were Wootton brick makers. (20 mins)Mother and father's character. Childhood in country. Secretarial college. Brief work in Cambridge. Sale of father's dairy to Unigate in early 1960s. Family holidays, without father. END OF SIDE A SIDE B (00 mins)Round the world trip, aged 21 yrs, with grandmother (5 mins)Father's farm in Buckingham in old age. Changes in farming over years. (10 mins)German prisoner of war who stayed on to work for father on farm. Clapham prisoner of war camp. (15 mins)Use of pesticides on the land. More environmental awareness these days. Seeing foxes, badgers & hares locally. END OF SIDE B(End of interview) Original interview 50 mins

20 July 2001

From: 1940 To: 2001

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prisoners of war, Italians, Germans, dairy, farming practice, Airfield, holidays, Women's Institutes, brickmaker, secretary, foxes, badgers, hares, Clapham Park Farm, Kempston Box End, WOOTTON, Cambridge, Buckingham, CRANFIELD, KEMPSTON, CLAPHAM