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Oral history audio recording of Jane Caroline Ralphs.

WAI/021

Interview about her teaching career, giving to charity and her father’s OBE.
Oral history audio recording of Rosemary Anne Clarke.

WAI/020

Interview about childhood in Godalming, moving to Milton Keynes, family traditions and objects special to her.
Rosemary Anne Clarke

WAI/020/001

Rosemary Clarke recalls her home and living in Goldalming as a child and until she was twenty. Talks about coming to Milton Keynes and her job here after leaving Africa. Talks about Christmas shared with her extended family and the importance of being together and sharing a traditional meal but having Christmas pudding on Boxing ...
Jane and Beth Kitchen

WAI/019/001

Jane describes a necklace given to her by her grandfather which used to belong to her Nan remembers looking at it as a child with her Nan and discussing how ugly it was she also compares when Milton Keynes was like a village to the present day. Christmas tradition is to eat their Christmas dinner ...
Oral history audio recording of Jane and Beth Kitchen.

WAI/019

Interview with mother and daughter about special personal objects and observations of living in Milton Keynes in the early years and family Christmas tradition.
Caroline Bond

WAI/018/001

Talks about liking Milton Keynes and her current job. Recalls superstitions handed down from her ‘Nan’ to do with knives, magpies and going in and out the right doors. Describes objects handed down by her grandparents who were in service for the Rothschilds, a copper saucepan and a gardening book. She also describes family photographs ...
Caroline Adelaide Louise Deveraux-Jones

WAI/017/001

Misses old towns. Talks about Christmas tradition of Swarte Piet from Holland how her French and Spanish heritage from her father is important to her and how she added Devereux to her name. Describes the objects that are special to her, a family bible a photograph of her mother with grandparents and her army service ...
Oral history audio recording of Caroline Bond.

WAI/018

Interview about teaching in Milton Keynes, inherited superstitions and the history of objects that are special to her and the importance of family.
Oral history audio recording of Caroline Adelaide Louise Deveraux-Jones (1960).

WAI/017

Interview about living in other places, her life in the army and moving to Milton Keynes, her family name and traditions and objects which have meaning to her.
Sonia Denise Ellen Moore

WAI/016/001

Sonia Moore talks about the family Chrostmas tradition of not opening her Nan and Grandad’s Christmas presents until after Christmas dinner. She describes her yellow knitted teddy bear that her Nan knitted for her which was passed down to her son. She talks about her father’s book which is from the Famous Five series dated ...
Oral history audio recording of Sonia Denise Ellen Moore (1967).

WAI/016

Interview about her Christmas tradition, a knitted teddy and a Famous Five book.
Oral history audio recording of Vera Murphy (1919).

WAI/015

Interview about photos and objects special to Vera Murphy.