Object Type: Folder
In Folder: TR/13
Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth and childhood in Marfleet Lane area (East Hull): undeveloped and rural nature during 1930s (03:00) Father ‘s work on King George Dock’s grain silo (04:25) Father and uncle (Charlie Miles) noted Hull wrestlers c. 1912 (07:00) Father and trade union conflict on the Hull Docks (interwar years) (09:04) Father’s employment and accident at Reckitt’s Hull prior to working on the docks (10:15) Birth and childhood in Marfleet Lane area (East Hull): Domestic life and amenities, dockside neighbourhood. (13:20) Second World War: Evacuation to Scunthorpe and Lincolnshire village of Sutterton and later Thorngumbald (23:20) The sea scouts at Victoria Dock c. 1947 (27:10) Second World War: return to Hull c. 1942/1943 – second phase of bombing of Hull and 1945 aerial attack on civilians on Holderness road (32:50) Employment in the Ordnance Survey (from 21 July 1947): early work and duties (35:25) National Service, November 1948: Ordnance survey with Royal Engineers (37:40) Surveying work and operations at the Hull and East Riding Ordnance Survey offices, 1947-1989: Large-scale post WW2 development of the region (57:50) Victorian nature of upbringing (59:25) (Limited) Role of women in Ordnance Survey (59:55) Military origin’s and nature of Ordnance Survey’s organisation and transferral to Civil Service (1:05:00) Modern surveying operations of the Ordnance Survey (1:07:11) Surveying accuracy issues during the 1930s (1:08:30) Surveying work at Scarborough during career (1:09:20) Implications of coastal erosion on surveying in the East Riding
8 May 2017
