Interview with Gwendalyn May Pinder

Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth at Brough in 1927, North Ferriby father’s work on Railways and mothers work cleaning (01:45) 1930s in North Ferriby (02:18) Second World War: Air raids, evacuees from Hull (03:13) Education Ferriby School during 1930s (03:50) Working on the milk round of George Pickering 1940s (04:25) Industry at Melton: Earles Cement and Capper Pass (05:40) Discusses personal photographs of herself at School in Ferriby 1930s (08:36) School lessons in 1930s (09:44) Few childhood holidays during 1930s (10:10) Father’s work on the railways during 1930s (11:28) Discusses personal photographs of father and brother in the military (13:00) World War II: Husbands posting at North Ferriby from West Riding; billeting of Royal engineers around North Ferriby; seeing air raids on Hull (15:30) Healthcare (Pre NHS) at Ferriby (16:25) World War II: Women’s Land Army (19:45) World War II: Irish Market gardener labourers (20:00) Dutch Market Gardeners (Coyman) from 1930s near Ellerker (20:55) Blackburn Aircraft, Brough (21:30) World War II: Rationing (23:45) Marriage and Leaving Land Army in 1945/1946 (25:30) Post-War austerity (25:50) Return to work from 1950s: Pickering’s Dairy, a cleaner and a dinner lady (26:30) Husband’s Post-War work on railways during 1950s and Earle’s Cement at Melton 1960s-1970s (30:10) Development of North Ferriby after 1945: Influx of outsiders into Ferriby and declining sense of community (33:42) World War II: Wartime dances at Hessle (35:15) Italian POWs (37:15) Free French Army (based at Hornsea)