Object Type: Folder
In Folder: TR/7
Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth in Cottingham in 1921 (02:50) Farming and cow keeping in Cottingham during 1920s (05:00) Milk delivering business from Cottingham diary during 1930s (08:39) Turnip and mangle worzels chopping for horse and cattle feedstuffs during 1920 and 1930s (09:36) Education: Hallgate School during 1920s (10:40) Childhood during the 1920s (11:30) Poverty: slum housing in Northgate during interwar years (12:33) Shops in cottingham during interwar years (13:02) Pre-NHS healthcare: Farm hand’s injury (14:10) Entertaining patients at Castle Hill Hospital during 1920s (15:15) The Second World War: bombing in Cottingham, Hull ablaze, air raid shelters, rationing (milk and butter) (20:40) Mother’s work as a milk girl during early 20th century: Delivering to Cottingham Waterworks (21:30) The Second World War: American and Free French Troops stationed in Cottingham (22:50) Market gardening in Cottingham: Dutch Market gardeners (24:20) Transport in Cottingham (25:30) Transporting market gardening produce from Cottingham (26:55) Late 1940s: rationing, meeting husband and marriage (32:30) Industry in Cottingham: Donkin’s Mill (36.06) Birth of first child in 1948 (38:00) The poor cottages in Cottingham and poverty in Hull and Cottingham
20 May 2017
