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Margaret Gibbs & Peg Wyles

Topics discussed

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

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