Z1205/041

Male. Brickworker and driver. b. 08.08.1913 SIDE A (00 mins)Childhood in Wardhedges, Flitton. Father was horseman at farm. (05 mins)London horse manure delivered by train to Flitwick railway station and carted to local farms. Farm work and earnings. Smallholding cottages. (10 mins)Large family. Grandparents. (15 mins)Staying at grandmother's for a holiday as a child. "Jolly Coopers" pub. (20 mins)Sing-songs at the pub. Shove-halfpenny pub game. Paper chases in fields. (25 mins)Discipline at home and school. Roadman work on road verges. (30 mins)Sunday school. Dislike of modern hymns. (32 mins)End of Side B. Side B (00 mins)Left school and started farm work. Sunday walks with family. Poaching rabbits and hares. Snaring, ferreting and coursing with dogs. (05 mins)Shot at by local farmer. Selling poached rabbits locally. Market gardening. (10 mins)Winter field work. (15 mins)Move to London Brick brickworks at Stewartby. (20 mins)Assisting piecework men firing bricks. Unloading chambers. (32 mins)End of Side B Continued in 041C2 SIDE A.Continued from 041C (00 mins)Workmen replaced by three conscientious ones. (05 mins)Moved from brickworks to horticulture. Driving vegetables to London to days a week. (10 mins)Went back to brick works, at Marston Valley Co. as a driver. (15 mins)Returned to market gardening for A.J. Woodwood. Delivered to London during war period. (20 mins)Earnings at brickworks. Unpleasantness of work. (25 mins)Working on farms. Poaching. Villages losing post office. (30 mins)End of Interview. Original Interview 90 mins.

4 September 2001

From: 1910 To: 2001

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London Brick Company,
Marston Valley Brickworks

brick worker, driver, farmer, horses, EDUCATION, Sunday Schools, punishment, poaching, ferrets, dogs, market gardening, post office employee, wages/conditions, FLITTON, FLITWICK, STEWARTBY