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)
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)
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.