Interviews about the General Strike
A collection of oral history audio recordings with residents of the Wolverton area concerning the era of the General Strike. The interviews were carried out in about 1992, when the interviewees were in their 70s, 80s and 90s.
Records in this Group
Full transcript available on request from the Living Archive MK.
Full transcript available on request from the Living Archive MK.
Full transcript available on request from the Living Archive MK.
EAS’s childhood home backed on to the Wolverton Works’ Laundry and the children used to talk to the laundresses, who included her sister-in-law, through the railings. Her brother George worked for the Stony Stratford Ambulance and joined the Royal Medical Corps at the start of World War One. He served in Egypt and, whilst there, ...
Full transcript available on request from the Living Archive MK.
Full transcript available on request from the Living Archive MK.
Full transcript available on request from the Living Archive MK.
When PM was a child, there was no place called New Bradwell, just Stanton High, Stanton Low and Stantonbury. The old club in New Bradwell remained the Stantonbury Social Club. There was another club called the Progressive Club. He remembered the Hospital Fetes, which had “marvellous” processions of vehicles and the boys and girls dressed ...
IJ’s father and grandfather continued to work through the General Strike, whilst their neighbours did not. She remembered a horseshoe being thrown over the wall into their premises and also a neighbour telling her that her father was being “set upon”. Also in the twenties, she remembered young boys taking lunches to their Fathers at ...
New Bradwell was known as “Little Moscow”. It was socialist and militant, but not in a violent sense. The people worked well together for hospital funds, carnivals and the like. The one divide was religion, between Church of England, Methodist and Baptist. They did not mix, but this was not carried over into work.
WM’s father, ...
The sisters’ aunt was one of the first nine employees when McCorquodales started in Wolverton (1878). They worked in a disused railway carriage producing envelopes: the men cutting shapes and the women folding and gluing.
As children, they received 3d pocket money. Sweets cost 1d per 2 ounces and bananas were 2d each. They received a ...
The Assistant Master and Assistant Matron looked after the inmates’ welfare, set them to their tasks and did general administration. Inmates had to work for their keep. Men worked in the garden, the field and kept pigs, supervised by EB’s father. Women worked in the laundry and kitchen and did cleaning, largely supervised by staff ...
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