Interview with Dorothy A Catterick and Vivienne M Wray

Joint interview originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (01:00) Cottingham during the 1930s: Agriculture and horticulture (02:20) Dutch market Gardening community in Cottingham (05:50) Parents work in market gardening in Cottingham (07:20) Carriage of agricultural and horticultural produce from Cottingham to Hull. (08:00) Industries in Cottingham: Donkin’s carpet manufacturers (10:15) Rail and motor Transport and Coastal trips (11:08) World War II: Declaration of War; the Home Guard; Air raids on Cottingham and Hull, air raid shelters; American and Canadian troops in Cottingham (24:25) Parent’s houses in Cottingham (25:30) Development of Council housing in Cottingham (26:00) Education in Cottingham and Beverley High School, bus travel to Beverley (and development of A164) (28:30) Bad winter of 1947 (30:30) Austerity of the late 1940s (32:25) Pre-NHS healthcare in Cottingham: Castle Hill, diptheria immunisation; nursing; treatment (39:00) De la Pole Asylum (42:08) Aspirations for girls when leaving school (44:45) Beverley High School during the late 1940s (47:35) Leaving and returning to Cottingham