Marion Ingram, Transcript 1, Part 7
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Marion Ingram Trans1 CH7 Duration: 4:21
CB: Lovely. Number forty-eight. (MI048) This is the same occasion isn’t it.
Marion: Yes.
CB: Terry’s Memorial Pound –
Marion: That’s right. And many of the Commoners turned up. And from the left we’ve got information redacted]
BI: That’s the same photograph, you’ve just gone through.
CB: So restart number 48.
Marion: We’re at the same occasion of the branding ceremony at the Pound, and in the picture we have got from the left: we’ve got [information redacted] talking to [information redacted] and I would think probably one of his grandchildren; then, in the foreground, we have Lord Manners and Richard Stride; and then to Richard’s left we’ve got [information redacted]; the grey-haired gentleman is Archie Cleveland; then Brian Ingram; the lady in the background is [information redacted]; um, then leaning on the rails is [information redacted] and [information redacted], his wife, next to him. Did we – I don’t know who the person is –
BI: It nearly looks like Ada.
CB: So number forty-nine. (MI049)
Marion: Yes, It’s [information redacted]. He’s the one putting his brand onto the Pound. Actually, I’m not sure it was the brand; they put the inscription on the Pound. All did a letter each.
CB: That’s a great collection of people.
Marion: Yeah.
CB: So on to number fifty. (MI050)
Marion: Yeah, in this picture we’ve got the brands being heated up by the Pound and we’ve got [information redacted], and he’s holding a child, I guess that was [information redacted], his daughter; and next to him is [information redacted]. Kneeling down by the fire is Richard Stride and then we’ve got [information redacted], and we guess that was possibly [information redacted], his youngest child.
CB: On to number fifty-one (MI051)
Marion: Yes, this was [information redacted], he was one of the agisters, but he had to retire through ill health, and he decided to write a book. And he had his book-signing day in the museum at Lyndhurst and in this picture we’ve got Brian Ingram stood by the side of him and [information redacted] is there doing his signing.
CB: And that was roughly – ?
Marion: Nineteen ninety-one.
CB: So, number fifty-two. (MI052)
Marion: Yes, we’re going back… I think this was when the hounds met down at the pub, the Royal Oak at Hilltop. And we’ve got [information redacted], a very young [information redacted], on Trampas. And this was in nineteen seventy-five, so that would make [information redacted] four –
CB: Wow –
Marion: And Brian is riding a mare we had, called Lady.
CB: Lovely. So number fifty-three. (MI053)
Marion: In this picture, this would have been a Commoners’ Meet – the New Forest foxhounds down at Exbury. And in the picture to the left is a gentleman called [information redacted]; him and his wife were great followers of the hounds; and then on the horse is… Actually, I don’t know who that was on the horse because it was a friend of Mike’s. But on the coloured animal is [information redacted], and he lives down near Lepe, and we very rarely see him on a horse these days. And then stood just watching the proceedings, is [information redacted].
CB: And number fifty-four. (MI054)
Marion: Yeah, he – this was at Ladycross and it was to do with Sir Dudley Forward’s eightieth birthday, and he was a great follower of the hounds. So they had him – got him there with the hounds and that’s [information redacted], he was the huntsman of the Buckhounds at the time.
CB: Lovely.