Object Type: Folder
In Folder: TR/1
Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth in Hornsea in 1920 (01:00) Family: Father a cobbler and window cleaner, grandfather: a bricklayer (Hornsea Cottage Hospital) (02:07) Burns family Home (in what is now Hornsea Museum) (02:51) Retail and shops in Hornsea 1920s (03:30) Horse and cart transport in Hornsea 1920s (04:10) First motor car in Hornsea c.1925, involved in car accident with the car (05:15) Medical Treatment in Hornsea (following accident) 1920s, Hornsea Cottage Hospital (08:39) Sense of Community in Hornsea: Parish Hall whist drives (09:45) Recreation and Leisure in Hornsea in 1920s: the beach, the mere, the railway station (11:30) Day trippers in Hornsea (arriving on the railway) (12:35) Education: A house on Seaton Rd, Mereside School, discipline, subject: scripture, scholarships for Beverley and Hull (husband unable to undertake scholarship due to money) (16:00) World War II in Hornsea: Husband in the Navy (convoys); Conscription to east Riding Regiment; Father officer in Hornsea Home Guard; visit of Winston Churchill to Hornsea: sea defences on Hornsea beach (23:05) Hornsea Cinema (24:10) Husband on Russian Convoys WWII (24:30) Rationing in Hornsea during WWII: food cargoes washed up on Hornsea Beach (27:25) Air raids; Morrison shelter; strafed by Luftwaffe at Hornsea (30:40) Free French Forces in Hornsea (32:00) Wartime Refugees from Hull in Hornsea (33:00) (standard of) Housing in Hornsea before and after WWII (36:45) Shortages of the late 1940s (39:40) Hornsea Pottery, 1949 (41:20) Post-war holiday making in Hornsea: popularity, caravan sites, boating lake, Hornsea Mere, Railway closure, motor transport (45:20) Coach Holidays: Western Super mare, Scotland, Eastbourne (46:10) Hornsea Pottery: Husband’s retirement, women’s work (at pottery and Hornsea cafes), decline and closure, Bridlington pottery, importance of pottery to Hornsea, retirement, establishment of pottery in 1949 (50:00) Pre WWII employment in Hornsea: fishing, farming, tradesmen (51:10) Disappearance of community spirit and settlement of outsiders in Hornsea
3 Apr 2017
