Marion Ingram, Transcript 1, Part 5
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Marion Ingram Trans1 CH5 Duration: 5:43
CB: So number thirty-one. (MI031)
Marion: Yes. This was at one of the Pounds, and I’m pretty certain it was Sandhole Pound, the old Sandhole Pound near Ashurst and it’s a representative from the ILPH presenting a cheque to Don Stevens and Len Mansbridge. I’m not sure what the cheque was for, but –
CB: So Don’s on the left.
Marion: Yes.
CB: In the middle, and Len Mansbridge is on the right. So number thirty-two. (MI032)
Marion: Yes. (Laughs) That animal’s the most awkward looking thing by one of Gig Alford’s thoroughbreds. Zara wasn’t really a very good one to breed from, but anyhow, I rather think that was out hunting.
CB: Oh, okay.
Marion: It’s [information redacted] on Heather in the nineties, and I rather think they were following probably the Buckhounds.
CB: Buckhounds.
Marion: Mmm.
CB: So, number thirty-three. (MI033)
Marion: Was the end of the day of the Drift at Ipley in nineteen ninety-four. And in this picture we’ve got [information redacted] with the red jumper on; sat on the Pound, slightly in the background is [information redacted]; then stood next to [information redacted] is [information redacted]; and then Don Stephens peering through the rails of the Pound. Jeff Kitcher and [information redacted], and quite a young-looking [information redacted] and [information redacted], [information redacted] – don’t know what’s happened to him, haven’t seen him for a long time. And then at the back is [information redacted], and then the lad at the front with the striped top on is [information redacted], then to his left is [information redacted]. Then in the front, half sort of kneeling or half-sitting on a rail is [information redacted], [information redacted] the keeper’s, one of his sons; and Brian Ingram.
CB: Number thirty-four. (MI034)
Marion: Yes, it’s releasing the ponies at Blackfield Pound. In fact, I’m not sure they’re releasing them, I think they’re possibly just bringing them in.
CB: Okay, and what year do you think that was?
Marion: About nineteen ninety-four.
CB: Lovely. On to number thirty-five – (MI035)
Marion: Yes, in this photograph we’ve got [information redacted] on the grey pony, and that’s his daughter [information redacted] on the bay pony. I don’t know what the ponies’ names were. And that would have been – I’m almost certain that was on Culverley, on the Drift at Culverley.
CB: And roughly when would that have been, do you think?
Marion: Erm … early ‘nineties I would say.
CB: Okay. So on to number thirty-six – (MI036)
Marion: Yes. This again, was a shot at the end of the day and in this picture we have got [information redacted] and [information redacted] –
CB: Sat on the rails.
Marion: Yeah, and then Brian leaning on his stick; [information redacted] and John Booth. This was at Woodfidley Pound when the reporter from ‘Horse & Hound came and took part in it in nineteen eighty-eight-ish.
CB: Wow! Number thirty-seven. (MI037)
Marion: Yes. This was at Pilley Drift in the nineteen nineties again, and that’s Sam Drodge, he was chief fireman at the Drift there; and that’s his wife with him. And he used to bring all his gear up with him in the wheelbarrow because he just lived a short distance from the Pound, and it was always him in charge of the fire then.
CB: Lovely. So on to number thirty-eight – (MI038)
Marion: Yes. This is turning the ponies loose at the end of the Drift at the weirs at Brockenhurst and they’re just ambling through the water; but you always have to wear your welly boots to that Drift or you end up with wet feet!
CB: And that’s one of the only Drifts where they let – release everything all in one go at the end, isn’t it?
Marion: Yes
CB: Because they have to go out across that – road
Marion: The road, yeah. well, that’s a better one of them all coming out together –
CB: Yes. To number thirty-nine. (MI039)
Marion: Yes. These are ponies in the Pound on the Ashurst Drift. And then, in the background we’ve got the short person with a whiteish top on – was Bob Munday, a chap that used to come quite regularly to all the Drifts. I don’t know that he actually ever had any ponies, but he always came; and then stood next to him is [information redacted], she is now; I still refer to her as [information redacted] And I don’t know who’s that we’ve got with the coat, or who the person is with their head turned away. Then the gentleman there, is [information redacted], from Lyndhurst.
CB: What year do you think that was?
Marion: Two thousand.