Interview with Nora Jones

Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Childhood and family life in Ottringham during 1930s: Father’s death, mother’s domestic service (02:15) Local businesses and trades in Ottringham during the 1930s (03:11) Education: Ottringham village school and Withernsea School (04:55) Withernsea during the late 1940s (07:20) Shopping in Hull during the 1940s (08:05) Education: Ambitions of being a teacher (11:48) World War II: gas masks (13:00) Entertainment and recreation in Ottringham during the 1940s (15:17) World War II: Rationing and resourcefulness (19:00) World War II: Siblings activities during the war: agricultural work (reserved occupation), WAFS and ATS (20:45) POWs at Camerton (21:55) World War II: The keeping of unregistered pigs in Ottringham (25:35) World War II: Air raids in Ottringham (27:50) World War II: BBC transmitting tower near Ottringham: various workers involved in the tower’s construction during 1942; broadcasting of propaganda to Nazi Germany; targeting of the tower by the Luftwaffe (38:15) World War 2: sources food from Humber banks – rock semper (39:00) World War II: Regiments stationed in Ottringham (39:30) World War II: Bombing of Hull and refugees from Hull in Ottringham (42:15) World War II: Make-do and mend (43:15) Post-War austerity (44:00) The bad winter of 1947 (44:55) Healthcare and Childhood ailments, operations and accidents (47:35) The prosperity of the 1950s: foreign fruits (49:00) Employment in the East Midlands (50:10) Return to the East Riding during the late 1990s, changes: The decline of Withernsea, changes in the villages (51:55) Resourcefulness and sense of community of the war years (contrast with modern society) (56:00) World War II: The blackout