Z1205/045

Male. Brickworker. b. 12.06.1923 SIDE A (00mins)Childhood in Lower Shelton then Caulcott, Marston Moretaine. (05 mins)11 in family. Father was a London orphan. (10 mins)Memories of twin sisters being born in the house. First pay at brickworks. Work in ticket office, labelling rail trucks. (15 mins)Office life. Sixpence (2 p) pocket money. Father a brickworker. (20 mins)School discipline. Father threatens schoolteachers for corporal punishment on son and threats to girls. No physical punishment at home. (25 mins)Honesty rewarded at village post office fire. Watching the blacksmith shoe horses, on way to school. (32 mins)End of Side A SIDEB (00 mins)Army experience during Second World War, including India and Burma. Returned to London Brick Company at Stewartby after the war. End of Side B.End of Interview. Original interview 60 mins

10 September 2001

From: 1920 To: 2001

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Marston Valley Brick Company Limited,
London Brick Company

brickworker, wages/conditions, schoolmaster, punishment, post offices, FIRE, blacksmith, World War Two, soldier, army, MARSTON MORETAINE, Marston Moretaine Lower Shelton Road, Caulcott, India, Burma, STEWARTBY