Caroline Stride, Transcript1, Part 11
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Caroline Stride Trans 1 CH11 Duration: 6:35
CB: Okay. Number five (CS105)
Caroline: Yeah, so here we have Eric Young
CB: Far left –
Caroline Far left is Eric Young and that’s [information withheld] father, a very good supporter of all Forest organisations and supporter of Commoning; [information withheld] with 66 on leading the black horse there; in the centre with 39 is [information withheld], his daughter; and in the red and red skull cap on is [information withheld] who was Mervyn’s second wife.
CB: Lovely, so number six (CS106)
Caroline: Here in the picture is the point-to-point at the prize-giving event: to pick out just a couple, is [information withheld] with the glasses on, now a verderer, he has 17 and his wife Phyllis, who is his wife and she was formerly [information withheld] wife.
CB: Okay, number seven (CS107) Mm mm.
Caroline: Well, I guess this was a pony being loaded up on – um – after Beaulieu Road, yes.
(CS108)
Caroline: A picture of Beaulieu Road before – this was the old sale yard site. As we can see the sale ring hasn’t got the roof on like you see it today.
CB: Number nine (CS109)
Caroline: This is Les Maton, he was a small commoner at Burley and that would have been taken on Woods Corner, Burley Drift.
CB: Mm.
(CS110)
Caroline: This is a picture taken of gathering ponies in on a round up and to the left of the picture is John Stride on a horse called Brusher; on the grey was – could be Laddie; he had two grey horses but I think it was probably Laddie –
CB: With Richard on –
Caroline: With Richard on, Richard Stride and the horse there to the right is, that was John Booth.
CB: Okay. That’s a nice scene, isn’t it.
Caroline: Yeah, lovely.
(CS111)
Caroline: Now this is the rodeo at Fritham in the early eighties and the person riding is Colin Moore –
CB: It doesn’t look like he’s going to be riding for long!
Caroline: I will say he was always a good supporter of the rodeo and I don’t know how long he stayed on that pony. But if we look to the side here, to the right of the pony and Colin, we’ve got Clive Maton, laid against the gate; [information withheld] with – I think it’s probably [information withheld] as a young boy. And there’s Richard, my husband, Richard, with Philip, our youngest son.
CB: Lovely. Number twelve (CS112) That’s a nice scene of –
Caroline: I think the rodeos were early eighties, I think, looking at Philip there. I’d say it’s probably… late nineteen eighties.
CB: Okay. Right, so number twelve is just another Drift scene.
Caroline: Yeah, Drift scene.
CB: Number thirteen (CS113)
Caroline: Number thirteen is John Stride on Brusher, again, I think it’s at Wood Corner, Burley; we’ve got a lot of ponies at Burley, been driven off Mill Lawn, Burley Rocks and obviously they’re just watching them go by.
CB: Number fourteen (CS114)
Caroline: Now this is at Sandy Ridge Pound, coming in, the fence line is the fence line for the A31 road and I should think that’s probably John Booth against the fence
CB: On the right –
Caroline: On the right of the picture; centre of the picture is possibly Raymond Bennett –
CB: Yeah –
Caroline: Possibly the person in front is [information withheld];
CB: With the blue hat –
Caroline: With the blue hat on. I’m not sure if that’s perhaps [information withheld]; it might be, but I’m not absolutely certain there.
CB: Number fifteen (CS115)
Caroline: Now this picture is Peter Brown and he is cutting fern at the top of Bolderwood Green in the area just off of the roadside, there’s bracken and heather growing together and he was cutting the heather with a long-handled scythe. That’s probably in the late ‘eighties, early nineties.
That’s sixteen (CS116)
Caroline: Now here we’ve got a picture of Bert Stride in his racing outfit, number 18, collecting a prize after he was in the point-to-point races. The gentleman with the microphone is Dave Maton, David Maton, he was brother to [information withheld] and he did the commentary at the races at that time. The lady in the middle wearing glasses is Joan Wright, who was chairman of the Pony Society and a staunch supporter of all commoning activities. The lady to the left of the picture with a scarf on is Pat Mangin, Mrs. Pat Mangin, and she again was a staunch supporter of the New Forest pony breed and she would give her time willingly; and a great, great, supporters of the cause.