Margaret Day, Part 5
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Margaret Day CH5 Duration: 5:36
CB: Right. The next one is number 24. (MD024) Unfortunately, I can’t turn this round so: tell me about that one, then. That looks like a postcard, is it?
Margaret: I’m afraid I don’t actually know, but this is South Gorley, outside of The Stags, and this is the road and it would be a very long time ago.
CB: Okay…
Margaret: Because the road is not made up.
CB: Oh no, it’s still gravel. Wow. And you don’t know who –
Margaret: I don’t know anything about it at all.
CB: No, not at all.
Margaret: But it could be a hundred years –
CB: Could be a hundred years –
Margaret: You see. But the house, The Stags, still looks very similar today.
CB: Does it. I’ll have to go and have a look. So, number 25. (MD025)
Margaret: This is Terry’s yard, with all the cows that have come in from the Common to eat, and with all our equipment; and it looks as though shortly they will be going out. This would be about fifteen or more years ago. (2000)
CB: Mm mm. And what were your preferred type of cattle for the Forest?
Margaret: We loved Hereford Cross Dairy.
CB: Oh, okay.
Margaret: They were really, really gentle and they had a lot of milk. But we did have a selection of different ones: we had some Charolais Cross, Belgian Blue Cross, Limousin Cross and Hereford Cross, but the Hereford Cross were our favourites.
CB: Yes. Number 26, (Long silence on recording) (MD026) Look at that.
Margaret: This is Terry, on the baler and tractor, and [information redacted] with the wrapper baling haylage at the back of our bungalow where we lived, in a field called Red Lawns belonging to [information redacted] Brook Farm.
CB: This was an annual event?
Margaret: It was.
CB: For most of your married life, I should think.
Margaret: I’m afraid it was, yes.
CB: It looks like you’re baling the sunshine in, there –
Margaret: Yes.
CB: Right. So, number 27. (MD027)
Margaret: This was one –
CB: Is this a photograph or is this a photocopy, I can’t remember.
Margaret: It’s a photocopy of Wishing Well Cottage that is almost opposite Hockey’s Farm and heading down towards The Green at South Gorley, where the old school is.
CB: Okay. Is that the old school in the background here –
Margaret: It is. Yes.
CB: Okay. And this is the shop on the left –
Margaret: That’s right. And Hockeys Farm Shop is on the right hand side.
CB: On the right. And that was a few years ago; hasn’t got –
Margaret: It was, ‘cos the road doesn’t look as though it’s made up, so it could be much the same age as the last one.
CB: Yes, golly, okay. Let’s see if this last one will come up. Right, so, number 28. (MD028) That’s lovely. What do you know about that one?
Margaret: I don’t know a lot about this one and I’m not sure who is sat on the wagon, but this is the Wyatt family who lived – I think, lived at Hockey’s Farm years ago, and it is the Wyatt family.
CB: And ‘s that a hay cart or straw cart?
Margaret: I would have said it was hay cart and that would have been local young people sat on there –
CB: – who came and helped. So what do you think – Nineteen twenties? Nineteen thirties?
Margaret: Yes, I would have said probably; yeah, Nineteen thirties.
CB: Lovely. (MD029)
Margaret: Same one.
CB: So the last photograph – Oh, so it is, it is the same one. Okay. So – oh, I probably did it because it’s got the information: Newtown Farm, Roy and Ethel Wyatt. Okay. Lovely.