Leslie Evans

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Evans, Leslie
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-08-06
Abstract
This is an interview with Leslie Evans. In this interview Leslie talks about church, cider, his father, coffins, home remedies, cars, horses, funerals, WWI, church bells, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
England
Subject (Temporal)
WWI
1912
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:10
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:48
The tape starts with a radio recording about an English Church; churches.

SIDE A 00:02:48 -- 00:12:23
Discussion about the radio program and his involvement with the bells, and bell ringing, neighbours, renting his farmland, people making cider, and his father making it for the locals with his press; apple cider, cider, church, church bells.

SIDE A 00:12:23 -- 00:22:35
Discussion about people drinking cider in the fields while they worked, his father building coffins and how he helped him place bodies in the boxes, how much the coffin was, and home remedies; coffins, caskets, home remedies, cider.

SIDE A 00:22:35 -- 00:31:22
Discussion about the first car in the area, shoeing horses, what funerals were like, being born in 1912, and his brother's memories of WWI; WWI, cars, horseshoeing, funerals, 1912.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:22.
SIDE B 00:31:50 -- 00:39:30
Stories about his brother just leaving ships before they sank in WWI, his brothers not talking about the war, Canadians in the first world war, The Spanish Flu, and mass graves; WWI, mass graves, Spanish Flu, soldiers, sunken ships.

SIDE B 00:39:30 -- 00:50:45
Digging graves, working in the church, the church bells, and the different sounds; church bells, churches, graves, burials.

SIDE B 00:50:45 -- 01:03:10
Types of bells, bell ringing techniques, the amount of ringers in England, and his father being a Welshman; Welsh, England, church bells.

Tape ends at 01:03:10.