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1. Interview about growing up in Fenwick Village in the late 1950s/1960s. Including growing leeks for the Beal Show, and playing in the grounds of Cherry Trees. 

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Transcript of a sample extract:

[“so, you have happy memories of playing in the surrounding fields?”]

“Oh absolutely, yes. I was lucky in that I had two sisters and there were other various children in the village of my age, and we used to just play football in Thompson’s field next to the school on a night-time, and marbles at various times of the year and we used to make bows and arrows and all the sort of things that children did. We used to go into Fenwick Wood just on adventures and then a little bit further on into Kyloe Wood and then on the very odd occasions that it snowed, I remember the winter of 1963 when we were sent home from school and there were big snow drifts on the side of the field at Thompson’s field, my sisters and I dug into them and made big igloos then. We used to take the sledges and there was a hill just behind the little school there and we used to sledge down there or further afield up on The Crags which was a big, long slide down from there but a big, long walk back up to the top.

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“In the field next to me we got a horse, well a pony ‘Billy the Pony’ from the blacksmiths along near Haggerston and I remember driving back from the blacksmiths with my dad on this trap on the A1, you wouldn’t do this now, and anyway we had Billy the Pony in the field next to the garden. But Billy the Pony’s days were numbered after he leaned over the garden wall and ate all the seed heads from my dad’s prize leeks! I think Billy the Pony was sent back after that because these prize leek seeds were very sought after. [yes, there was quite a prolific leek society]. Yes, my dad was a judge for those. You would have to say a month before the shows, the judges would go round all the people who were going to enter and they would stamp the leeks so that you couldn’t show your leeks in a show in Berwick, you know, they had to be shown in the Beal Leek Show.”

2. Interview about the history of Fenham Mill and the surrounding area.

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3. Interview about the water supply at Fenwick Granary and helping one summer to replace the old lead pipes supplying the properties

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4. Interview about how Storm Arwen in 2021 affected Kyloe residents.

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10.  Notes from interview (no recording) about memories of working in Kyloe Woods after leaving school in 1954.

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