Object Type: Folder
In Folder: TR/3
Also known as Sam. Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Education at Minster Infants, Beverley from 1933-1936; Minster Boys School, Beverley 1936-1943 (01:00) Housing (standard of) in Beverley 1930s: old two up two downs (Queensgate) and new council houses (Warton Avenue) (02:15) Start of World War II: mobilisation of troops, conscription and territorials in Beverley (03:00) WWII: Air raid precautions in Beverley: ARP Warden, sirens (including Hodgsons buzzer) (04:10) Grovehill Road: basic housing conditions c. 1939 (04:35) WWII: Brothers’ war service (05:45) Hull Blitz, May 1941: disruption of school in Beverley (Including school children refugees from Hull), Ambulance and fire engine Flying columns in Beverley, visit to Hull (08:20) Victoria Barracks during WWII: bombing of the barracks, units stationed at the Barracks (09:25) Childhood memory of playing with live cannon shells (10:35) Foreign soldiers in Beverley: Canadians, (10:50) Rationing in Beverley: peanuts on Beckside barges, shortages, apples (11:35) Fathers service during WWI (12:50) Minster Boys School 1936-1943: Philanthropic Head teacher George Edward Whitehead (14:10) Employment (wartime): Delivery vans, Telegram boy (16:45) WWII: visits to Leconfield Airfield (as a telegram boy): bomber collision c. September 1944, accident involving a Halifax bomber and a sea mine, November 1944 crash landing of American Liberator bomber (22:20) Spring 1944 inspection of troops by General Montgomery at Beverley Westwood; Generals De Gaulle and Leclerc’s inspection of free French troops in Beverley (23:30) WWII: Delivery of telegrams notifying of deaths of soldiers and return of POWs (25:45) Dr Aldroyd (Ear, Nose and Throat specialist) surgery at home in Molescroft (pre-NHS healthcare) (26:30) Post Office, Beverley: Older employees, Boy Messengers examination c. 1945, Telegraph Training School (Hull) (29:15) National Service from April 1947: East Yorkshire Regiment 6 weeks training (‘square-bashing’) at Victoria Barracks, Normandy Camp, telegraphist training at Catterick, School of Military Intelligence at Harrogate, post to GHQ Bad Oeynhausen, Germany (33:30) Community resilience during WWII (34:05) Poverty and slums in Beverley: Sylvester Lane, Wilbert Lane, Keldgate, Morley’s yard (34:45) Philanthropy of the upper/wealthy classes in Beverley (35:45) Fred Elwell in Beverley (37:00) National Service, 1947- July 1948: cipher operator, Bad Oeynhausen, Munster, Dusseldorf, Essen Germany (42:04) Career in the Post Office 1948-1989 (Beverley and Hull) (51:20) Retirement: Volunteer work at Beverley Minster, Recipient of Royal Maundy
7 Apr 2017
