Caroline Stride, Transcript1, Part 10
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Caroline Stride Trans 1 CH10 Duration: 5:43
CB: So this is a continuation of Caroline Stride’s on the 2nd of February 2017 and we are looking at photograph number forty-eight (CS048 as above)
Caroline: The gentleman who is on the pony is Monty Slightam. He was the publican at the pub, the Royal Oak at Gorley before he became a forest keeper. And he had his family there: and the child in arms there is Audrey Slightam and when she grew up, then she became the wife of Ted Penney, hence the connection with the Penny family in the picture.
CB: Okay, number forty-nine (CS049) This is a lovely picture.
Caroline: This is the dairy cows, the milk cows that went out or belonged to the Penny family here at Blackwater Farm, Lyndhurst and they would have been gathered in off the Forest, waited there for them to be milked. In the background you can see the barn, and there would have been in the barn two areas to the left of the picture; there would have been stalls in there that they stood in and they would have been milked in there and then taken back out again, or going out into the forest between milking. Interestingly, the majority of them have got horns and I guess they were short horn cross mixture of cattle there, I don’t think you can identify any one of them as being a pure bred cow. The people in the picture I guess are the Penny family; probably the person in front of the double-doors to the right of the picture perhaps would be Charlie Penny with the boy in his arms – or child in his arms…
CB: Yeah, that was a super picture. Okay, and number fifty (CS050)
Caroline: Now this is a picture in Brockenhurst High Street and an old picture of the buckhounds; I think its probably Jack Slightam there beside the car or alongside the car there, probably taking his hound out on hound exercise.
CB: Number fifty-one (CS051)
Caroline: This is a picture I really know very little about but it – I just thought it was worth having as a record of timber being pulled out of the forest. I fancy it is over in the Bartley Woodlands area but I know no more than that.
CB: Mm. Okay ( CS052)
Caroline: A picture of The Royal Oak at Fritham and I guess it’s Taylors or the publican would be Taylor probably in the dark clothing there in front of the bow window. I have this in the collection – in my collection because my Granny Snelgrove, her early life she lived at Amberwood Cottage. Her father, Jerry Snelgrove was a keeper at Amberwood Cottage, and her nearest village would have been Fritham. And no doubt there would have been, you know, some carryings-on in the Royal Oak at Fritham with Jerry Snelgrove and others.
CB: Right. So we’re carrying on to a second collection; so this is the first, so Caroline, if you could tell me about this one. (CS101)
Caroline: A picture taken by an old friend of ours, [information withheld], who lived at Burley. And this picture was taken at Woods Corner and in the pound in the blue jumper is John Booth. He was the New Forest Agister at the time and the one person behind him with the sledge hat on was [information withheld] or is [information withheld].
(CS102)
Caroline: This is a rodeo up at Fritham, it was a fund-raising event for the New Forest Stallion Syndicate. We had annual rodeos and this was the scene just where the chute where the ponies would be coming out is just behind this gentleman here with his back to us with the jacket on and the trilby hat –
CB: Yeah. Is that –
Caroline: That’s Terry;
CB: Oh, yes
Caroline: That’s Terry talking to [information withheld] I think
CB: So, [information withheld] on the left of the picture with the short wellies
Caroline: Yeah.
( Indistinct passage, both talking at same time)
CB: Buzz having a cigarette
Caroline: Yeah, having a cigarette.
CB: When was this, do you know?
Caroline: Um…
CB: I think it must be ‘seventies, must it? Eighties? I can remember going.
Caroline: It might have been early eighties.
Caroline: Late – It might have been early eighties. Early ‘eighties.
CB: Yeah. So that was number two; on to number three (CS103)
Caroline: Ah. Now this is just a picture, I’m not sure where the point-to-point-races
CB: Yeah.
(CS104)
Caroline: Point-to-point races…
CB: Okay, that was number four. Is that [information withheld] in front?
Caroline: I would say that’s [information withheld], in front; I would say this is maybe [information withheld] on the black horse
CB: Third
Caroline: To the right
CB: Third
Caroline: Coming in third, yeah.