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?

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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)

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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.

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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)  

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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?

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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.

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