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Percy Hibberd and Meg Harris

Topics discussed

TimeDescription
00:05Introductions
02:00Titanic story – travel from America – early life in Tysoe
02:25Mr Jones (Vicar & Meg’s father) & school
03:50Tysoe duck pond
04:30Percy in Tysoe fire brigade – stories
06:15School memories – boarding school, Meg
06:55Percy on school memories – Tysoe school allotment – school then & now
11:15Mr Jones in a milk float being taken to Compton Church
13:28The Compton Treat
14:20Compton – Sunday School outing
14:44Wagons for transport
15:40School exams
19:25Leaving school and work
21:25Land army girls
22:34Wages on the farm
23:10Jobs after the war
23:55Petrol pump in Tysoe
24:50Entertainment
26:05Baroness Profumo hunting story – problems with the hunt
28:28Learning a skill – building apprenticeship – builders in the village
30:40Faggott Alley & hide & seek
32:20The day war broke out – the announcement in church
36:05Meg’s boyfriend
39:00Is Tysoe changing? Too many new people? (controversial stuff!)
41:50Decline of the allotments – decline of the ‘meeting place’ for men
44:10The village hall – previously a small quarry?
46:55A miscellany of memories
50:07The Tysoe Flower Show
52:00Seeing the Coventry blitz from the Vicarage & Tysoe Hill
53:30Allotments, corn thrashing, cider
55:50Frank Whittle & the jet engine prototype from Shennington
59:00Good memories & sporting side
60:01[Ends]

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