Carole Cooper Part 2
Carole Cooper CH2 Duration: 4:20
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(CC004)
Carole: This is Ashurst drift, now the year would be about, when did you say Terry died?
(Pat Dunning replied 1991 I think)
Carole: This would have been ninety, nineteen-ninety, and its Ashurst drift when we had the pound in the corner by the back of Leonards. And that’s Terry Jones, [name withheld] –
CB: So Terry in the middle, Brian on the right –
Carole: Maurice Tillyer there.
CB: On the left?
Carole: On the left and –
CB: Don’t know who that is sat up on that (tree)?
Carole: No, I don’t.
CB: Just noticed them.
Carole: Your mum might recognise them. We had to build a pound. Building a pound, that’s what they were doing. We didn’t have all these posh pounds then. And all the vehicles used to come through and that’s what they’re doing coming through the farm.
CB: And actually park in [name withheld], Ashurst Farm
Carole: There’s somebody else there but I don’t know who that is either, with their back to us; your mum might know that person. So that’s that.
CB: What about this photograph here? (CC005)
Carole: This again would be about nineteen ninety-one. And this is at Balmer Lawn drift and its Agister Terry Jones and commoner [name withheld] and they are worming one of our mares and her name was Tiffany.
CB: So Terry is doing the worming?
Carole: Yes. Yes we sold her to [name withheld] not long after that. Not that you want to know that.
CB: Now this photograph? (CC006)
Carole: This, I can’t remember the year of this, oh hang on, nineteen ninety; yes and yet on the back it says ninety-eight. Sorry. And this is, they organised a special meet for commoners at Dennywood, so that’s [name withheld] on One eyed Charlie, can’t remember his registered name, and Carole Cooper on Tommy.
CB: And Tommy used to be owned by……
Carole: Tommy used to be owned by Agister Terry Jones. His registered name was Lakeclose Tender Thoughts, I bought him after Terry went, when he was twelve, the pony, and I had him until he was thirty-three.
CB: Oh wow.
Carole: And that one was one of [name withheld]’s.
CB: Charlie the chestnut?
Carole: Yes Blackwell … was it, I’m not going to say his registered name ‘cause I can’t remember it. He’d had an accident in the field and lost an eye but [name withheld] used to ride him colt hunting and you’d never have known and we sold him to in the end to James Young and he used him for riding for the disabled. Probably not really much interest to you.
(CC007)
Carole: The date of this was in the album (background noise) so I’m not going to pretend to know the date. This is the Commoners Defence stand at the New Forest Show, umm, I think we are going back to when [name withheld] was Chairman so…I don’t know, ninety-two, ninety-three.. That’s Raymond Bennett
CB: Let’s start on the end, so that little girl on the end.
Carole: That’s a customer
CB: Little girl, we don’t know who that is.
Carole: I think that might be Sophie Roberts
CB: Okay.
Carole: ‘Cause that’s Peggy Tillyer, Raymond Bennett, Anne Sevier, Jane Tillyer, Your mum.
CB: Pat Dunning.
Carole: Pat Dunning, Carole Cooper.
CB: And a hand of somebody else, but that’s what the old stand used to look like?
Carole: Yes. Was it your mum that used to do the….
CB: It was my grandmother
Carole: Your grandmother, sorry your grandmother used to make the tails.
CB: And sell them for a pound each
Carole: And one day – I don’t know if it was that show or the next show – I was in charge of the stand on my own and [information redacted] came in and just helped themselves to everything and I just couldn’t stop them.
CB: Oh!
Carole: You might not want that in there.