Caroline Stride, Transcript 2, Part 6
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Caroline Stride Trans2CH6 Duration: 7:18
CB: Okay, and number seventy (CS270)
Caroline: Ah, right. Now this must be at the point-to-point races. We have [information withheld], a retired vet from Seadown Veterinary Hospital, now one of the founder members of the Seadown Group; not sure who the white-haired person is there, perhaps that’s his wife but I don’t know; then centre with his tie on dishing out or handing out the rosettes is [information withheld]; the girl in the foreground who has just collected her rosette is [information withheld], that’s John Stride’s daughter, my niece; to the side it is [information withheld] who has always helped out with judging and helped out on occasions like this, at the point-to-point.
CB: Okay. Seventy-one (CS271)
Caroline: Again I would say at the point-to-point races, the prize-giving and I would say it was on the same occasion. The person who is holding the cup and the rosettes is Jack Moore, that’s [information withheld]
Moore’s father. On the tailboard is Philip Stride with the little blue top on and I would say that’s probably his cousin [information withheld] in the red.
(CS272)
Caroline: I guess this is a stallion passing session, again it is possibly it’s North Bentley, and the person holding on to the stallion centre of the picture is Jeff Kitcher; I think [information withheld] to the left of the stallion is somehow trying to assist in managing the stallion; in the background over Jeff’s shoulder I think it might be Lennie Mansbridge –
CB: Leonard
Caroline: Lennie – Leonard, sorry, yeah. To the right of the picture I think that’s probably Cherry Stokes who is Debbie’s mother.
CB: Yes, I would say so. Right, seventy-three (CS173)
Caroline: In the picture to the left we have Jeff Kitcher followed by, stood next to him is Raymond Bennett; John Stride in a brown coat; stood next to John is Les Maton; they’re probably all listening to what Brian Ingram was saying, who is next to [information withheld] and I guess that was something about the Stallion Passing.
CB: Mm mm.
(CS274)
Caroline: Now this is the author, or the photographer of all of these pictures was Steve Lane and he is the gentleman that you see with the flat cap looking directly towards the picture and his old driving horse that he had at the time, Sam; he came very late in his life to country living and country life, he worked in a factory in Poole and sadly his health suffered from the stress and strain of working in such an environment so he almost opted out of that way of life and came to live in Burley and he took up driving at a later time of his life but he so enjoyed it and photography, hence the pictures that we’re seeing in this collection. And that’s possibly up in Berry Wood because living from Burley he’d go out and collect wood or walk up through Berry Wood at Burley. And yeah, loading up wood.
CB: Okay, seventy-five (CS275)
Caroline: Now this I think is the occasion of the marking of Terry Jones’ Memorial Pound down at Hurst Hill. Now the gentleman who is stood in the middle of the picture is Lord Manners and at the time he was the official verderer. A collection of people there at the occasion at Hurst Hill: To the left of the picture is [information withheld] and his wife, [information withheld]; and I guess one of their boys there in front. Not sure who some of those people are next to them but certainly Brian Ingram, [information withheld] with the green tie on; Brian Ingram there with the grey cardie on;
CB: Oh that’s erm … Tillier
Caroline: Brian Tillier, yes. And I think there, the gentleman with the handkerchief to his nose is Archie Cleveland. And then it’s Twinkle Seaton who was wife to [information withheld] with the blue waistcoat on; I ought to know that other lady and I do apologise, but I don’t know her name, but I know her face.
CB: Seventy-six (CS276)
Caroline: Now this is along the Bolderwood Road; just a way from The Portuguese Fireplace there is an old well and in the nineteen eighties there was a real drive by the Forestry Commission to list all the wells within the Forest. In this case this probably dates from the time of the Portuguese using the area around the fireplace as their cookhouse and doing their forestry work in the First World War. And it’s probably where they got their water from, they built this well. A lot of them fairly deep and for that reason they had to be capped off correctly or properly but they didn’t want to fill them in, in case there was a need for this sort of water source in the future, so the Commission at the time were capping them over and if in the case it was Peter Brown who was doing the job you can see walking towards the fence, he would put a wooden top on them, a hinged top so they could be accessed easily, with a padlock on so nobody could open them up and tamper with them and then put the cleft rails around so it made it a bit of a feature. And, yeah, still there today.