Rosemary Harding, Part 4

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Rosemary Harding CH4   Duration: 2:53

CB:  That’s lovely.  So tell me about this photograph here. (RH024)

Rosemary:  All I know is it’s when they used to do pony driving.  There was a society and that was  [information redacted].

CB:  And who was he, then?

Rosemary:  He was something to do with Strongs’ Brewery.

CB:  Oh, was he.

Rosemary:  And they lived – he lived in Burley.

CB:  ..?..

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  That looks to me like it’s Whitefield  Moor.

Rosemary:  It could be up on the aerodrome.

CB:  Oh it could be up on the aerodrome.

Rosemary:  On the aerodrome, yes,

CB: It could actually, yes.

***:   He lived up at ..?..

CB:  Did he.  Tell me about this photograph, number twenty-five.(RH025)

Rosemary:  This is when the Queen came for nine hundred years of the New Forest, she was introduced to my father and beside the Queen is Sir Dudley Forward.

CB:  He’s holding a beautiful grey horse.

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  That you believe –

Rosemary:  Belonged  to the Queen Mother. 

CB:  Belonged to the Queen Mother, wow, what a privilege.  That’s lovely.

Rosemary:  Because he was Equerry to the Queen Mother.

CB:  Sir Dudley Forward.

Rosemary:  Mmm.

CB:  Oh, was he.

Rosemary:  Yeah.

CB:  She looks jolly happy there actually, doesn’t she?

Rosemary: Yes.

CB:  Much younger.  So on to number twenty-six. (RH026)

Image discussed in audio

Rosemary:  This is the late ‘sixties.  I think it’s Broomy Pound where they’re treating the horse for worming or something when it came in on a colt hunt.

CB:  In the pound, tied up because –  round his leg to keep it still.

Rosemary:  Yes

CB: And then that’s your Fritham – is it Fritham Conkers –

Rosemary: Conkers, yes –

CB:  In the back –

Rosemary:  Yup.

CB:  Overseeing –

Rosemary:  Yeah.

CB:  So, number 27. (RH027)

Image discussed in audio

Rosemary:  Have you done one like this?

CB:  No.

Rosemary:  ‘Cos there are some like that are the same.   Um, this is up at Stoney Cross.

CB:  Yeah.

Rosemary: In the ‘fifties.  So, my dad and [information redacted] colt hunting, rounding up.

CB:  Your dad’s all dressed up in his –

Rosemary:  – In his uniform –

CB:  His official uniform.

Rosemary:  Uniform, yes.

CB:  At the back there.

Rosemary:  Yeah.

CB:  When did you say this was?

Rosemary:  In the fifties

CB:  The ‘fifties.

Rosemary:  Yeah.

CB:  Yeah.  Super.  Okay. (RH028)

Rosemary:  This is the early ‘fifties again.

CB:  Yeah.

Rosemary:  With my dad at Mr. Dalgetty’s at the corral, with [information redacted] putting the finishing touches to the bull ring into his mouth.

CB: Oh, I see, yes.

Rosemary:  That’s what they’re doing.

CB:  The bull’s gone down, they’re doing it right down there –

Rosemary:  Yeah, the look of it.  They were feisty, they were.

CB:  Yeah.  Okay, Rosemary, tell me about this one. (RH029)

Rosemary:  This is my dad down the yard, milking the cow with  [information redacted] watching him milk the c –  I think the cow’s called Daisy May.

CB:  And that’s your house cow.

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  Oh, lovely.  And what were the boy’s surnames?

Rosemary:   [information redacted].

CB:  Oh that’s [information redacted] again.  Okay.

Rosemary: That’s ‘cos it’s their dad taken nearly all these photographs for us.

CB:  Oh, I see.

Rosemary:  Even those at Mr. Dalgetty’s as well.

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