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Content: Betty Purple reads through her account of the night of the January 1978 flood in Wells-next-the-Sea, describing the immediate repairs and those in the following months.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Betty Purple (speaker, female); Alison Christmas (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with Mary Bircham about her early life as a baker's daughter and the bakeries in Wells-next-the-Sea. She also discusses the history of Wells Town Tennis Club, her schooldays, Dr Hicks and his patients, and the shops in Freeman Street in the 1920s.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Mary Bircham (speaker, female; interviewee); Ann Small (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with Hilda Bennett about her childhood and work in Wells-next-the-Sea in the 1920s and 30s, she also discusses going to the cinema, the Queen's visit to Holkham Hall, her father's work as a shoemaker and barber, and the 1953 North Sea flood.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Hilda Bennett, 1924-2009 (speaker, female; interviewee); Ann Small (speaker, female; interviewer); Alison Christmas (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with Avril Nelson about about the founding of Wells Wildfowlers Club in the 1950s, she talks about wildfowling and the return of wildfowl to Wells after WWII, protecting the marshes, links with Holkham Hall, and memories of her father.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Avril Nelson (speaker, female; interviewee); Alison Christmas (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Freda Howell talks about life in Wells-next-the-Sea, including her childhood on a farm from 1910, and Christmas in Wells. Freda Howell reads her own poems on local subjects including 'Our Norfolk Dialect', rat catching, local characters, and a wedding.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Freda Howell (speaker, female); Ann Small (speaker, female); Alison Christmas (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with Jack Cox about his working life as a fisherman from age 14, and after his retirement as a self-taught artist. Other topics include his parents, childhood in the 1920s, work available around Wells, and leisure time.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Jack Cox, 1914-2007 (speaker, male; interviewee); Alison Christmas (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Mo Webb talks about the 1953 North Sea flood in Wells-next-the-Sea, including descriptions of the night of the flood, the aftermath the following morning, and the clean-up operation.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Mo Webb (speaker, male)
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Content: Oral history interview with Evelyn Wright about growing-up on a farm, her involvement with the Methodist Church, and her memories of the 1953 North Sea flood.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Wright Evelyn (speaker, female; interviewee); Ann Small (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with Noel Hudson about his various jobs, including as a grocer's boy in Wells in the 1920s and in domestic service around the country, and his experience of the church in Wells-next-the-Sea.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Noel Christmas Hudson, 1909- (speaker, male; interviewee); Alison Christmas (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with John Temple about his family farm and the differences in farming from 1930 to the time of the interview; topics include mechanisation, the increase in bureaucracy, and descriptions of his own farms and their expansion.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): John Temple (speaker, male; interviewee); Ann Small (speaker, female; interviewer)
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Content: Oral history interview with Dorothy Yarham about the shops and businesses in Wells-next-the-Sea.
Recording location: Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK
Performer(s)/contributor(s): Dorothy Yarham, 1910-2006 (speaker, female; interviewee); John Christmas (speaker, male; interviewer)
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