Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Edwards, Gwen
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-03-22
Date Digitized
2010-03-13
Abstract
This interview with Gwen Edwards of Kington, Herefordshire, England begins with her telling of her work as a nanny. Gwen then goes on to talk about her parents, discusses the Watkins family, and talks about home remedies. She then goes on to talk about butchering pigs and homemade cider. Next, she tells more about the Watkins family, tells of her birth, and describes chores while working on her family's farm. Gwen then talks about walking three miles to school, the Spanish Flu, riding her bike to dances, and tells more about her job as a nanny. Discussion of the Spanish Flu returns, and there is mention of tuberculosis. She then tells of happy times walking the hills and picking fruit and berries, poisoned cows, her mail route, and her laundry and cleaning business. She tells more about her factory work, and mentions a local mill, and for the remainder of the interview she tells about her sisters Annie and Edith.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:58
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:39
Discussion about working as a nanny; MacIntosh, nanny, Lord Armourthewaite, tenant farmers.

SIDE A 00:01:39 -- 00:03:53
Discussion about her father and mother; Lord Armourthewaite, tenant farmers, quarry, farmer, Annie Watkins.

SIDE A 00:03:53 -- 00:07:56
Discussion about the Watkins family and the Welsh; Welsh, Wales, Watkins, miners, grandmother, Annie Watkins, school, New Radnor, cancer, Prestine.

SIDE A 00:07:57 -- 00:09:49
Discussion about home remedies; mint tea, black mint, mustard plaster, bread, bread poultice, bran poultice, cures, home remedies.

SIDE A 00:09:50 -- 00:12:53
Discussion about butchering pigs; pigs, butchering, pork, pig feet, pig ears, pig tail, pig fat, flitch, bacon, ham.

SIDE A 00:12:53 -- 00:14:22
Discussion about killing pigs at certain phases of the moon, and homemade goods; moon, pigs, homemade, pig fat, cheese, butter, bread.

SIDE A 00:14:23 -- 00:15:12
Discussion about making cider and peary; cider, peary, apple cider, pears, apples.

SIDE A 00:15:13 -- 00:16:58
Discussion about the Watkins family; Watkins, grandmother, photograph, funeral.

SIDE A 00:16:59 -- 00:18:03
Discussion about Gwen's birth; birth, doctor.

SIDE A 00:18:04 -- 00:20:11
Discussion about chores and working outside on the farm; milking, cow, chores, farm.

SIDE A 00:20:11 -- 00:21:44
Discussion about walking three miles to school; school, walking.

SIDE A 00:21:44 -- 00:22:50
Discussion about the Spanish Flu, and her first job; Spanish Flu, farm, nurse, nanny, wages.

SIDE A 00:22:50 -- 00:23:59
Discussion about riding her bicycle; bicycle, bike, dances.

SIDE A 00:24:00 -- 00:26:29
Discussion about dances; waltz, lancer, military two-step, step dancing, Foxtrot.

SIDE A 00:26:29 -- 00:28:54
Discussion about being a nanny continues; nanny, nurse, MacIntosh, Scottish, Lord Armourthewaite.

SIDE A 00:28:54 -- 00:31:54
Discussion about the first car she saw; Ford, Jack Jones, horse and carriage.

Side A ends at 00:31:54.
SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:32:46
Discussion about a driving pony and tub; pony, tub.

SIDE B 00:32:50 -- 00:35:21
Discussion about the Spanish Flu continues; Spanish Flu, sick, flu.

SIDE B 00:35:23 -- 00:38:02
Discussion about tuberculosis; New Radnor, nurse, tuberculosis, carbolic soap, remedy.

SIDE B 00:38:04 -- 00:42:25
Discussion about foraging and walking the hills; foraging, fruit, Molly Jones, hazelnuts, swedes, blackberries, apples.

SIDE B 00:42:25 -- 00:44:03
Discussion about poisoned cows; cow, poison.

SIDE B 00:44:06 -- 00:50:41
Discussion about her mail route; post office, mail route, New Radnor, 1940s, bull, mail, letters, mail carrier.

SIDE B 00:50:45 -- 00:54:52
Discussion about doing laundry and cleaning houses for money, and the strong women in her family; laundry, cleaning, family, women, strong women.

SIDE B 00:54:53 -- 00:55:53
Discussion about working in an ammunition factory; factory, Hereford, Kington.

SIDE B 00:55:55 -- 00:58:28
Discussion about Turner's mill; Turner, mill, Turner's mill, covered wagon, grain, flour.

SIDE B 00:58:28 -- 01:02:50
Discussion about her sister Annie and the Titanic; cancer, Titanic, Annie, sister, lifeboat, survivor, lady's maid, Atlantic.

SIDE B 01:02:50 -- 01:03:55
Discussion about her sister Edith; cancer, Edith, sister, London.

Tape ends at 01:03:58.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.