Marion Ingram, Transcript 1, Part 5

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Marion Ingram Trans1 CH5   Duration: 5:43

CB:  So number thirty-one. (MI031)

Marion:   Yes.  This was at one of the Pounds, and I’m pretty certain it was Sandhole Pound, the old Sandhole Pound near Ashurst and it’s a representative from the ILPH presenting a cheque to Don Stevens and Len Mansbridge.  I’m not sure what the cheque was for, but –

CB:  So Don’s on the left.

Marion:  Yes.

CB:  In the middle, and Len Mansbridge is on the right.  So number thirty-two. (MI032)

Marion:  Yes. (Laughs) That animal’s the most awkward looking thing by one of Gig Alford’s thoroughbreds. Zara wasn’t really a very good one to breed from, but anyhow, I rather think that was out hunting.

CB:  Oh, okay.

Marion: It’s [information redacted] on Heather in the nineties, and I rather think they were following probably the Buckhounds.

CB:  Buckhounds.

Marion:  Mmm.

CB:  So, number thirty-three. (MI033)

Marion:  Was the end of the day of the Drift at Ipley in nineteen ninety-four.  And in this picture we’ve got   [information redacted] with the red jumper on; sat on the Pound, slightly in the background is  [information redacted]; then stood next to   [information redacted] is   [information redacted]; and then Don Stephens peering through the rails of the Pound. Jeff Kitcher and   [information redacted], and quite a young-looking   [information redacted] and   [information redacted],   [information redacted] – don’t know what’s happened to him, haven’t seen him for a long time. And then at the back is   [information redacted], and then the lad at the front with the striped top on is    [information redacted], then to his left is   [information redacted].  Then in the front, half sort of kneeling or half-sitting on a rail is   [information redacted],   [information redacted] the keeper’s, one of his sons; and Brian Ingram.

CB:  Number thirty-four. (MI034)

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Marion:  Yes, it’s releasing the ponies at Blackfield Pound.  In fact, I’m not sure they’re releasing them, I think they’re possibly just bringing them in.

CB:  Okay, and what year do you think that was?

Marion:  About nineteen ninety-four.

CB:  Lovely.  On to number thirty-five – (MI035)

Marion:  Yes, in this photograph we’ve got   [information redacted] on the grey pony, and that’s his daughter   [information redacted] on the bay pony.  I don’t know what the ponies’ names were.  And that would have been –  I’m almost certain that was on Culverley, on the Drift at Culverley.

CB:  And roughly when would that have been, do you think?

Marion:   Erm … early ‘nineties I would say.

CB: Okay.  So on to number thirty-six – (MI036)

Marion:   Yes.  This again, was a shot at the end of the day and in this picture we have got   [information redacted] and   [information redacted] –   

CB:  Sat on the rails.

Marion: Yeah, and then Brian leaning on his stick;   [information redacted] and John Booth.  This was at Woodfidley Pound when the reporter from ‘Horse & Hound came and took part in it in nineteen eighty-eight-ish.

CB:  Wow! Number thirty-seven. (MI037)

Marion:  Yes.  This was at Pilley Drift in the nineteen nineties again, and that’s Sam Drodge, he was chief fireman at the Drift there; and that’s his wife with him. And he used to bring all his gear up with him in the wheelbarrow because he just lived a short distance from the Pound, and it was always him in charge of the fire then.

CB:  Lovely. So on to number thirty-eight – (MI038)

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Marion:  Yes.  This is turning the ponies loose at the end of the Drift at the weirs at Brockenhurst and they’re just ambling through the water; but you always have to wear your welly boots to that Drift or you end up with wet feet!

CB:  And that’s one of the only Drifts where they let – release everything all in one go at the end, isn’t it?

Marion:  Yes

CB:  Because they have to go out across that – road

Marion:  The road, yeah.  well, that’s a better one of them all coming out together –

CB:  Yes. To number thirty-nine. (MI039)

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Marion:  Yes.  These are ponies in the Pound on the Ashurst Drift.   And then, in the background we’ve got the short person with a whiteish top on –  was Bob Munday, a chap that used to come quite regularly to all the Drifts.  I don’t know that he actually ever had any ponies, but he always came; and then stood next to him is    [information redacted], she is now; I still refer to her as   [information redacted]  And I don’t know who’s that we’ve got with the coat, or who the person is with their head turned away.  Then the gentleman there, is   [information redacted], from Lyndhurst.

CB:  What year do you think that was?

Marion:  Two thousand. 

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