Interview with Berna Moody

Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth in Grayburn Lane 1936, Beverley (00:50) Parents: both nurses at Broadgates Hospital, Beverley; unofficial pre-NHS healthcare in the family home. (04:20) Early Education 1930-1940s: St Mary’s Infant School (Grayburn Lane); Lairgate Congregational Church (Westwood Road); St. Mary’s Girls School (Norwood) (10:10) Transport in 1940s Beverley: Horse and Cart, Cars and Lorries (11:40) Wartime rationing supplemented by father’s allotment (12:30) Clubs for Children in Beverley during 1940s (Rabbit club, St John’s Ambulance) (15:20) Base Hospital (Westwood) and Cottage Hospital (Morton Lane), Beverley during War: injured soldiers (18:10) Father in ARP (19:00) Local conscripts KIA (20:00) Childhood experience of War (21:05) Black market activity (Butchers) (22:00) Refugee families from Hull in Beverley (24:30) Limited knowledge of bombing of Flemingate, Beverley (25:20) Strafed by a German plane: She and a group of children in Wood Lane, 27 October 1940 (27:50) View from Beverley of Hull burning during the Blitz (28:30) Queuing for coke at Gas Works (Wartime shortages of resources) (29:00) Strong sense of community; Religion and community in Beverley (31:50) Pioneer Corps, Toc H in Beverley (33:00) Visit to a dance as a teenager at Victoria Barracks Dance (33:40) Father’s job guarding huts at Bentley during latter part of the War (34:30) Women’s War Work: Sister milked cows at farm in Bentley (36:07) Victorian rubbish dump at Farm in Bentley (36:30) Growing ‘wuzzles’ (Cattle feed) at Manor Road (38:10) Fishing trips with father to The Lodge at Londesborough (39:15) Visiting Grandparents at Bainton nr North Dalton (39:45) Travel around the East Riding during 1930s-1940s: trains, by foot and car. (42:15) Shortages and Resourcefulness of 1940s (including Post-war: late 1940s): hand-me-downs, crow pies and eels, community collections (48:15) Wartime stay away from parents Beverley Railway Station and Bridlington (49:30) Bridlington during wartime (50:05) Butlin’s Holiday camp at Filey (RAF Hunmanby Moor), 1947