Interview with Manx woman from Port Erin about her experience of the Second World War
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Date(s): 1998
Creator(s): Ritchie, Violet
Scope & Content: Track 1: She talks about the Irish; women and politics in the Isle of Man; rationing after the Second World War and using seagulls’ eggs in cakes; Kenneth Walker fatal accident retrieving seagulls’ eggs; women’s land army ‘down the north’; her job as ARP warden; Robert Alfred Colby Cubbin and his mother; picking blaeberries in the hills; school trip rolling down Slieau Whallian and superstitions in the Isle of Man including sweeping the road at midnight at Cross Four Ways; living in West Kirby; siblings; buying a bicycle; horses; arrival of motorcars including Mr Moore’s of Billown first ‘closed motorcar’ in the Isle of Man; riding in Mrs Moore’s horsedrawn carriage as children; Monk’s Bridge and Rushen Abbey being conserved; the Royal Family visiting the Isle of Man.
Track 2: She talks about her memories of Port St Mary in the 1920s; Mr Cregeen; spinsters in Port St Mary due to the First World War; Scottish herring girls working at Port St Mary harbour; luggage on Port St Mary train station platform; going to church in Port St Mary; Port St Mary promenade shut during the Second World War; Canadian soldiers at Cregneash; changes to Port St Mary after the Second World War with electricity coming; Second World War internees in Port Erin; her work as ARP Warden in Port Erin; the Manx and Manx ships at Dunkirk evacuation 1940; cinema on Church Road, Port Erin; Italian and Polish internees in Spaldrick; Home Guard; barbed wire in Port Erin; Scottish visitors on the beach at Port Erin; living in Bradda after the Second World War.
Language: English
Extent: 1 hr. 34 min. 19 sec.
Item name: cassette tape
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: SA 2009-0008/3
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