Interview with Margaret Collinson

Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth in Hutton Cranswick: Pre NHS antenatal care (01:15) Father’s work in agriculture from 1925 (03:00) Housing Hull Refugees in Beverley home during Blitz (03:45) Fathers conscription during WW2 (05:10) Walkergate Infants, Spencer and Longcroft Schools, Beverley during late 1940s and 1950s: milk, cod liver oil and orange juice issued to school children; aspirations to be a teacher (09:15) Post-War rationing 1945-1952 (10:10) Childhood past times: Beverley Library; Girl Guides Camps (12:15) Methodism in Beverley since 1940s: Sunday School; Choir; sense of community; non-conformist festival; decline of Methodism. (16:00) Leaving School in 1957; Training to be a teacher (Saffron Walden) (17:15) Career as a teacher from c.1960-1994: Driffield Junior School (1960-1964), Leicester; Leconfield and Withernwick; changes in education (better funding for equipment, equal pay for women teachers (1963, greater choices in child learning) (21:15) Living in Hutton Cranswick c. 1977 (22:30) Childhood Holidays and day trips (on the bus): Hornsea, Bridlington, Scarborough, caravan holiday Primrose Valley, Filey (25:15) Father’s work as a road foreman (with council) from 1950s: dual carriage way Manor Road, Beverley; growth of motor traffic (29:00) Housing in Beverley during 1940s and 1950s: renting, electricity installed in 1951, basic amenities (and improvements) (31:00) Announcement of death of King George VI in 1952 (31:31) Consumerism (and clothing) of the 1950s: Mother’s (Christian Dior) New look suit, new high heeled shows