Topics discussed
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 00.00 | Introductions |
| 00.10 | Earliest memories |
| 02.20 | Margaret’s first married home – condition of the house /services |
| 02.56 | Electricity into Tysoe – changes resulting |
| 06.27 | Doctors |
| 07.22 | Factory in Tysoe during the war – Peg’s early working life – women & work |
| 09.10 | Margaret’s early working life |
| 10.45 | Leaving school |
| 11.25 | Iniquities in education – scholarship / fees |
| 13.30 | Schooling now & then in Tysoe – headteachers |
| 17.15 | School treats |
| 18.18 | Margaret’s husband’s family origins – occupants of local houses – familiar names |
| 21.25 | Chapel interlude |
| 22.50 | Peg’s husband in RAF … |
| 23.55 | …followed by war memories |
| 27.10 | Games as a child – Peg – playing fields – other childhood memories |
| 28.55 | Coal supplies – heating & cooking – first hot water system |
| 30.40 | Peg’s large family – small house – room for everyone? – 3 generations in one house |
| 32.10 | Old Tree Lane & ‘Faggot Alley’ |
| 33.00 | The old bakehouse on Saddledon St. |
| 33.40 | ‘The Dock’ behind the village hall |
| 34.10 | Birth & death – coffins etc. – children & death – exposure to death – childbirth |
| 37.25 | Houses & conditions – mice, rats – dirt floors, poor thatch, uncertain walls |
| 42.08 | Pigsties in the new council houses 1929 – food in the war |
| 44.00 | Moving house (from Lancaster to Tysoe) |
| 47.26 | Gated roads and other memories, including wages |
| 49.40 | Then & now |
| 52.45 | Ends |