 |
Mr&Mrs
U |
| track |
description |
time |
Play |
| 1 |
Fishing out beer and pop bottles from the canal at Walbridge and taking them back to shops to get the deposit back – 1950s version of earning pocket money. |
1:24 |
|
| 2 |
Getting stuck in the mud at Walbridge Dock. |
0:37 |
|
| 3 |
Fishing in Walbridge Lock, the army lorry crashing into the iron railings and Uncle’s failed attempt at boat building. |
1:27 |
|
| 4 |
Do you know where ” Murder Lane ” is? Listen in. |
0:54 |
|
| 5 |
Trains and the Brewery. And how clean was the Slad Brook? er… |
1:38 |
|
| 6 |
Rodborough schools & Black Boy school, teachers and warm 1/3 of a pint of milk. |
1:53 |
|
| 7 |
Stratford Park outdoor pool was cold in the 1950s (plus ca change). |
1:05 |
|
 |
Glenda
Combe |
| track |
description |
time |
Play |
| 1 |
Rodborough church and Sunday school in the Endowed school. |
0:38 |
|
| 2 |
The circus comes to town and the Stroud show. |
1:01 |
|
| 3 |
Infant school when she was not allowed out to play. |
1:42 |
|
| 4 |
Games in the schoolyard and in the lane. |
2:22 |
|
| 5 |
German exchange students in her teens. |
1:02 |
|
| 6 |
Mr Snake pays a visit! |
0:37 |
|
| 7 |
Ex-Ship Inn at Wallbridge where Glenda’s mother lived. And the rainbow river. |
1:57 |
|
| 8 |
Day trips to visit family in Weston super Mare. & Winstone’s ice cream. |
1:18 |
|
| 9 |
The house -Dinsdale had no electricity for many years. |
0:37 |
|
| 10 |
The new fangled gas iron, & the gas boiler. |
1:48 |
|
| 11 |
Simple but effective – the larder, but no phone! |
0:55 |
|
| 12 |
Electricity installed in 1958. Outside loo until 1970. |
0:52 |
|
| 13 |
The Dudbridge Donkey steams behind her house. |
0:27 |
|
| 14 |
The privy with dual seats! |
0:21 |
|
| 15 |
Grocery deliveries and electricity comes in glass boxes. |
1:28 |
|
| 16 |
Father goes on a secret mission in WW2. He worked at Wallers. |
1:01 |
|
| 17 |
A young policeman lived next door who was eventually in charge of the Fred West investigation. |
0:59 |
|
| 18 |
Glenda as a Greek Goddess in the town carnival. |
1:05 |
|
| 19 |
A few shops in Stroud town. |
1:07 |
|
| 20 |
Working at Batemans on Saturdays in the toy department. |
1:58 |
|
| 21 |
The Ritz in her courting days, before the fire. |
1:20 |
|
| 22 |
The Flamingo Grill and music at the Sub Rooms. |
1:25 |
|
| 23 |
The Salvation Army holds a service on May Day. |
0:40 |
|
 |
Keith
Glover |
| track |
description |
time |
Play |
| 1 |
Mother queuing for food for 3 hours in WW2. Off ration rabbit and chicken. Home gaurd patrolling and the “blackout”. |
2:05 |
|
| 2 |
Boxing Day food parcels in Stroud in the 1940s |
0:58 |
|
| 3 |
Christmas decorations in the shops. Granny Balls sweet shop where you could buy a pennyworth of bits. Bainbridge butchers were relatives, & cigarette packets from the tobacconist. |
1:49 |
|
| 4 |
Keith’s first school run by the nuns. Sister Wallberger and Mr Martin administering discipline. Find out what a tawse is. |
1:21 |
|
| 5 |
Milk delivery from the churn in the 1940s by Mr Wheeler by horse and cart. |
0:23 |
|
| 6 |
The local blacksmith Mr Dangerfield. & some of the horse and carts to be seen in the 1940s. |
1:53 |
|
| 7 |
Selling rabbit skins to the “skin yard” at the top of town for tuppence a skin. |
0:33 |
|
| 8 |
Father who fought in WW2 and never came back. Mother working at Critchley Brothers. |
1:12 |
|
| 9 |
Grandfather Alfred George Dowling served in the Boer War and WW1 and never spoke about the war. |
2:42 |
|
| 10 |
Keith lived in Straford Rd near Townsend Mill, and the German & Italian POW’s working there. |
1:02 |
|
| 11 |
Townsend Mill was very dark and dusty in the 1940s. |
0:52 |
|
| 12 |
The Youth Club at school. Scout playing “wide games” a bit like orienteering – find the camp fire. |
1:06 |
|
| 13 |
Priests at Beeches Green Church |
0:20 |
|
| 14 |
Gentlemen of the road washing in the “brook” (aka Painswick Stream) and the canal & Ship pub in Stonehouse. |
1:05 |
|
| 15 |
Mr Martin’s lessons about the American Civil War. |
0:37 |
|
| 16 |
Train spotting at Standish junction and day trips to Weston. |
0:35 |
|
| 17 |
When the Nelson Hotel was a school, 40/50 people ice skating on the Stratford Park Lake. Remembering Pucks Hole Harbour and Cuckoo’s Brook. |
1:20 |
|
| 18 |
The wash house & toilet in Townsend Mill cottages. |
0:42 |
|
| 19 |
the policeman directing traffic at the “Town Time”. “Banger” by name. The Dainty brothers & the Painswick Inn family. |
1:32 |
|
| 20 |
Announcing the election results from the balcony at the Sub Rooms |
0:56 |
|
| 21 |
The Country Dance group at school. & St Roses next door. The May Procession at Beeches Green. |
0:45 |
|
| 22 |
Paganhill Festival led by dairyman Mr Wheeler & the Ruscombe Fife & Drum band. Dancing round the Maypole with ribbons in the 1940s |
1:03 |
|
| 23 |
The Queen of the May – a song Keith collected from his Mother in Law, Granny Rose. |
1:48 |
|
| 24 |
The ” Rolling of the Fire Barrels ” in the High Street. |
1:06 |
|
| 25 |
The May Procession around Beeches Green in the 1940s. |
0:49 |
|
| 26 |
Pig Face Sunday. Putting a pig’s head on the wall in Avening. Giving out cheese at Randwick after the procession. |
1:17 |
|
| 27 |
Keith has a go at making music in the 1950s. & the Folk CLub in the Railway in Stroud in the 1960s |
0:44 |
|
| 28 |
Bill Rogers running the Cotswold Folk Band, organist at the Catholic Church. Husband of Mrs Rogers headmistress. |
1:19 |
|
| 29 |
Dialect sayings remembered from the 1940s living near the “pitch”. |
0:56 |
|
| 30 |
The 14c Abbey opposite Stratford Park was a school before WW2 & a film animation studio during. |
1:17 |
|
| 31 |
Where the buses started from in the 1940s. Going to get a Winstones Ice Cream |
0:48 |
|
| 32 |
Aston Down Air Show |
0:20 |
|
| 33 |
The Stroud Show and the carnival with floats. The Chalford Stick Company where George Juggins worked. |
1:07 |
|
| 34 |
Stroud pubs and the market at the Pinswick Inn. Laurie Lee’s parents ran a pub in Sheepscombe. |
1:31 |
|
| 35 |
Cinemas. The Ritz run by a man with a wax moustache & monocle. The Guamont minors. Sneaking in to the adult showing. |
1:38 |
|
| 36 |
Keith as a train spotter in Stonehouse. & the Egyption refugees in Stonehouse. |
1:11 |
|
| 37 |
The Regal cinema, Stonehouse. When the trains went past. There with his girlfriend age 15. |
0:59 |
|
| 38 |
Keiths first job in Lansdown Creamery. Saving to travel the world. |
1:04 |
|
| 39 |
Meeting Laurie Lee when Keith was an character in “Cider with Rosie”, hiding his long hair (the fashion of the time). |
0:57 |
|
| 40 |
Dancing Morris on May Day on Rodborough Common when apparitions appear out of the mist! |
1:02 |
|
| 41 |
Keith as Town Crier of Randwick, Oh Yey! Oh Yey! & Mayor for a year. The Wap revived by the vicar. |
1:47 |
|
| 42 |
The sports centre and the Lido at Stratford Park, the water was cold! Learning to ride a bike on the bandstand. Collecting walnuts. |
1:14 |
|
| 43 |
Stratford Abbey School and the Issaci sisters who ran it |
1:50 |
|
| 44 |
more talk about the Abbey School and the spinsters |
0:56 |
|
| 45 |
Chipperfield’s circus comes to Victory Park |
0:23 |
|
| 46 |
Dagenham Girl Pipers come to play in Stroud |
0:34 |
|
| 47 |
Keith acts as an extra to the movie “ Custard for Cupid ” |
1:10 |
|
| 48 |
when George Orwell stayed in Cranham Sanitorium. Reg Hannis owned the saw mill and was a musician |
1:07 |
|
| 49 |
Laurie Lee’s mother running the Plough pub in Sheepscombe |
0:33 |
|
| 50 |
collecting rose hips to make rose hip syrup |
1:02 |
|
| 51 |
a story in dialect |
0:41 |
|
| 52 |
collecting wood from Hawkswood College for fuel |
0:38 |
|
 |
Peter
Morton |
| track |
description |
time |
Play |
| 1 |
Searching for a sword stick for most of his life until Stroud did him proud. |
1:49 |
|
 |
Lionel
Smith |
| track |
description |
time |
Play |
| 1 |
Lionel talking to his son ( in 1974 ) about transport in the Stroud valleys in days of yore . Times have changed , yet again ! |
0:43 |
|
| 2 |
talking about methods of heating rooms before WW2 |
0:39 |
|
| 3 |
talking about gas street lighting before WW2 |
1:01 |
|
| 4 |
talking about cars that Lionel saw in Stroud before WW2 |
0:42 |
|
