Lived: Winsford, Stoke Pero
Recording made: 1998
Length of recording: 1 hr 45 mins
•
MAUD HARDING
Born:
Winsford,
Somerset, 1913
Lived:
Winsford, Stoke
Pero
Recording made: 1998
Length of recording:
1 hr 45 mins
To read a summary of the contents of the oral history recordings click CD1 or CD2.
Listen to an audio clip by clicking wma or mp3. (Click here for information about downloading audio clips)
Maud Harding's grandfather had a builders yard at Winsford. She worked in the office there, three mornings a week, after she left school. He was one of the first people to have a car and Maud, at 16, would drive him round, or go out to the woods with the men to beat his initials into the felled timber. She wanted to be a driver in the army, but married instead. She loved driving and later drove the hospital car service.
She was brought up at Torre Farm. After she married she went to farm at Stoke Pero, and then back again to Torre when her parents retired and moved into Winsford. The pattern repeated itself when her husband retired and their son, Richmond, took over.
When she was younger she played table tennis, and cricket for Wheddon Cross ladies team. They were a sportier lot than Winsford, she says. She goes short mat bowling now.