Marion Ingram, Transcript 1, Part 3
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Marion Ingram Trans1 CH3 Duration: 6:03
CB: So number twelve. (MI012)
Marion: Yes. This was after the point-to-point and in that photograph is my brother, Lenny Mansbridge and then my Uncle Peter and he was the one that had cancer. It was him that wanted dad to ride in the point-to-point
CB: So Peter Mansbridge –
Marion: Yeah.
CB: And then in the white shirt –
Marion: He was the announcer of the time, David Maton.
CB: And to the far right –
Marion: Oh, yeah, it’s Len, Len Mansbridge after –
CB: After his race. On his grey pony, looking very pleased with himself. Lovely. Number thirteen. (MI013)
Yes. This is [information redacted] being weighed. You had to weigh in once you reached the Senior Races. You had to weigh in to ride in the race, and you had to carry a particular weight for the size of your horse. And then, when you completed the race, you had to weigh in again and make sure you hadn’t lost any on the way.
CB: And who’s doing the weighing?
Marion: That’s Mr. Roy Lee. He used to do the weighing.
CB: Lovely. And that was in nineteen –
Marion: Er – eighty-eight.
CB: Nineteen eighty-eight. So number fourteen. (MI014)
Marion: Yes. That’s [information redacted] collecting his rosette. A red one, so I presume he must have won it; I don’t know, I can’t remember. And the president of the year would have been Miss Brooks; and the gentleman there is Eric Young.
CB: And that was in nineteen eighty-nine.
Marion: Eighty-nine.
CB: And number fifteen. (MI015)
Marion: Yeah. In this one we’ve got – I don’t know the name of the horses, but it’s [information redacted], one of the agisters today –
CB: He’s on the chestnut pony on the left –
Marion: Yes, and Ralph Hayward, his grandfather. He’s up on the right, and that was getting ready for the point-to-point at Hill Top. In nineteen eighty-nine. I’m almost – did they meet at – somewhere near Longdown, ‘cos that looks very similar to – the car park at Longdown, doesn’t it?
CB: It does.
Marion: Unless ..?.. I don’t know. Have to check that one with Brian.
CB: Number sixteen. (MI016)
Marion: This celebrations after the point-to-point in nineteen eighty-nine; and in the back row is [information redacted] in the yellow and white striped top; [information redacted] with the glasses on; [information redacted]; Lee Noble; and then in the front row we’ve got [information redacted] and [information redacted], and Didi, their mother; Kate Whetren –
CB: With a great big bouquet of flowers!
Marion: Yes, I don’t know what that was about. I can’t remember. And then [information redacted] and [information redacted]
CB: On the far right. And number seventeen. (MI017)
Marion: Yes. This was the point-to-point in nineteen ninety-one at Bramshaw Telegraph, and in the picture we have got [information redacted] and [information redacted]; then, in the foreground, in the blue and grey striped top, is [information redacted]; and the person with her head turned slightly, that was [information redacted]; and then again with number two on is [information redacted]; and Brian. I don’t know if that was the start, they look fairly –
CB: Clean (Laughter)
Marion: And they were probably discussing tactics.
CB: Number eighteen. (MI018)
Marion: Was the point-to-point finishing at Holmsley in nineteen ninety-two, and it looks like [information redacted] won her race; I think she did, I think she won the Ladies’ Race.
CB: She’s with the Father Christmas hat on.
Marion: Yeah. Then in the picture from the left is [information redacted]; [information redacted] –
CB: So [information redacted]
Marion: Yes; [information redacted] as she was then; she’s now [information redacted]. And [information redacted] hanging over from the back and [information redacted], [information redacted] and, oh, the other person not really being right in the picture, I think is [information redacted].
CB: [information redacted], with her hair tied back.
Marion: Yeah –
CB: Just behind [information redacted]. So, number nineteen. (MI019)
Marion: Yes. This again is in the point-to-point, nineteen ninety-three, when they finished up at Longdown. And we’ve got [information redacted] on the chestnut mare, riding Duchess; and then Brian Ingram. He’s riding Fiddler’s Bruno.
CB: So, number four was [information redacted] and Number 2 is Brian Ingram.
Marion: Yeah.
CB: So this is a very dramatic picture, I think, number twenty – (MI020)
Marion: Mmm. This would have been coming through the Ipley River when the point-to-point finished up at Longdown and it’s [information redacted] riding Fergie, the chestnut pony, and she is wearing number five; and [information redacted] is on Heather, which was my brother-in-law’s animal, and it would have been in the Ladies’ Race.
CB: Absolutely flying through that river.
Marion: Mmm. Lovely splash …