Reference
Z1582/1
Title
Recollections - Life in the 1950s. Recollections written by people connected with Biddenham in 2012 as part of the Diamond Jubilee Village Exhibition .
Date free text
2012
Production date
From: 2012 To: 2012
Scope and Content
Gary Fitzhugh, school boy at Far Cotton Northampton, remembers 'The Day the King died'.
Brian Hunter, school boy at prep school in Somerset, remembers 'The Day the King died'.
Jimmy Burt 'Memories of medical practice in a Lancashire Town'.
David George - 'Student Memories 1952'
Hilary Hurn 'Memories from Wales', Laurie Hurn remembers being told he had passed the 11+.
Graham Bates - moved to Day's Lane in 1958, remembers the loss of his aunt in the Lynmouth disaster.
Mary McKeown - Memories of the King's death and the coronation in Bristol.
Maureen Sackett - visit to the corner shop and Coronation Day.
Liz Daniels, remembers the family move to St Ives, Hunts which eventually led her to come to Biddenham and become landlady of the Three Tuns.
Christopher Dawe - School trip to Austria.
Mary Dawe - cadet deaths in Chatham, announcement of the death of the king, Coronation, convent school gift of illuminated manuscript to the vatican.
Glenys and Peter Culverwell - early married life.
Wendy King - house mother of Bedford Modern School Boarding House.
Gill Piggott - Memorial Service for King George at Luton and Coronation.
Judy Cresswell - boarding at Bedford High School in the 1950s.
Anne Merry - Daygirl in Bedford.
Averil Watson - Memories of Bedford in the 1950s.
Jane George - Announcement of the King's death at Dame Alice Harpur School.
Barbara Beazley - Farming in 1950s Bedfordshire.
James Merry - Harvest at Oakley.
Yvonne Fowler - memories of Biddenham.
May Davies - memories of Biddenham
Eric Jackson - Memories of Tyneside and Cumbria.
Jaswant Kaur Jamu - qualified as a teacher in Punhab India in 1958. Husband migrated to the UK in 1966 and the family joined him in 1968. Lived in Dagenham until 1994, took early retirement from Ford Motor Company and moved to Bedford.
Anne T Simmonds, Bickley, Bromley Kent - 1952 family events of new baby and illness of brother and father.
Clive Cresswell - school, university and job.
Rosemary - mother was pregnant with her at the time of the coronation.
Hugh Clifton, Belgravia - the coronation.
Note on national service.
Level of description
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