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Judy Powell |
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| track | description | time | Play |
| 1 | a practical joke at high school and games in primary school | 0:41 | |
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Joyce 2 | ||
| track | description | time | Play |
| 2 | Joyce’s early years in Minchinhampton. | 1:40 | |
| 3 | Children’s games played in the 30s. | 1:35 | |
| 4 | School and teachers in the 30s. | 1:23 | |
| 5 | Minch Church & Chapel and the vicar. | 1:47 | |
| 6 | the non-conformist chapel group called “Hand of Friendship”. | 0:26 | |
| 7 | Cherrington Lake was their version of the beach. | 0:50 | |
| 8 | When the Queen & princess Margaret came to Minchinhampton in the 30s, and the dog bites the mortorcycle outrider. | 2:04 | |
| 9 | The cortege is still following the cows along Tetbury St. | 1:28 | |
| 10 | How her mother came to Minchinhampton via a May Day hiring fair in Gloucester. | 1:39 | |
| 11 | The Rag & Bone Man of Minchinhampton. | 0:29 | |
| 12 | Singing around the piano at home. | 0:32 | |
| 13 | The sow that farrowed in a bramble bush. | 1:52 | |
| 14 | Mother is not impressed with the piglets, and cooks on a coal fired range. | 1:38 | |
| 15 | Joyce’s brother | 0:23 | |
| 16 | Joyce’s son | 0:23 | |
| 17 | Various farmers around Minchinhampton. | 1:39 | |
| 18 | Minch pubs & the non-smoking, non-drinking family. | 0:56 | |
| 19 | How Joyce met her husband. | 0:45 | |
| 20 | Merret’s bus services in Minchinhampton. | 0:19 | |
| 21 | The stream that ran across the road. | 0:49 | |
| 22 | the three ha’penney dances in the Market House. | 0:32 | |
| 23 | The Elephant the escaped the circus and ran amok in Minch. | 0:41 | |
| 24 | Work on the farm paid for the milk before & during WW2. And George & Dorcas were often seen in their cart here. | 1:17 | |
| 25 | Two quiet regular drinkers, who regularly quarreled as soon as they left the pub. | 0:49 | |
 (Joyce’s daughter-in-law) |
Val 2 | ||
| track | description | time | Play |
| 1 | Head teacher at Randwick school took his cat to classes. And Miss Barton, the pot shot. | 2:00 | |
| 2 | Games in the schoolyard. Country dancing in Minch Market House. | 1:57 | |
| 3 | Sledging down the road in Randwick. | 1:33 | |
| 4 | Making Palm Sunday crosses, Christingle Oranges and painting eggs. | 1:19 | |
| 5 | Collecting dandelions to make wine. | 0:40 | |
| 6 | Using granny’s “gamp” as a parachute. (& find out what a gamp is) | 1:22 | |
| 7 | Mother makes the family clothes and for neighbours, and takes in washing. | 1:00 | |
| 8 | Butter making, and taking off the cream of the milk. getting milk from churn with a ladle. | 2:04 | |
| 9 | Mother grew up alongside the canal and loved swans. | 0:44 | |
| 10 | They are having chicken for supper tonight. | 0:23 | |
| 11 | Randwick vicar, son of the Governor of Australia. | 1:24 | |
| 12 | The Randwick copper, dogged personality. | 1:06 | |
| 13 | The itinerant odd-job man and the knifegrinder. | 1:21 | |
| 14 | Granpy’s allotment, the horse and collecting caterpillars. | 1:38 | |
| 15 | Joyce told Val of a custom when they decorated a stone wall with Hawthorn blossom – which was called “May” in olden days because it bloomed in that month. | 0:31 | |
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David Fletcher | ||
| track | description | time | Play |
| 1 | His school and teachers, games in the school yard. | 1:11 | |
| 2 | The Brimscombe Youth Club and games they played on the common. And the punt on the canal beside the Polytechnic. | 0:58 | |
| 3 | David’s work in the mills, and his uncle who was union organiser for the Dyers & Bleachers. | 1:09 | |
| 4 | His father, who worked at Workman’s Sawmill, survived WW1 when his mates didn’t. | 1:37 | |
| 5 | Prompted by the memory of the Coop horse & cart, David remembers other traders and the Rodborough May Walk. . |
1:36 | |
