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SNOW AT BRENDON / DRIVING DR MOLD / TWINS' ARRIVAL / HOME BIRTH

getting stuck in snow (with Tim Halsgrove) at Brendon / driving Dr Mold / twins' arrival - Andrew 41, twins 36 / home birth. [Back to top]
 

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MEDICAL CARE / CLOSING LYNTON COTTAGE HOSPITAL / DULVERTON DOCTORS / DELIVERING MEDICINE / DR MCKINNEY / DULVERTON CEMETERY / FATHER'S RETIREMENT TO LYNTON

riding at Ted Stanbury's (Six Acre Farm, Lynton) / Dr Mold and Dr Nightingale /  medical care /  shutting Lynton cottage hospital /  health centre /  police station / Dulverton doctors - Dr McKinney and Dr Collins /  delivering medicine /  Dr McKinney, forgetting Tom Sully's medicine (Bridge Cottage, Winsford) /  medicine /  Mrs McKinney / Dulverton cemetery / father's retirement to Lynton / selling Dulverton business to Gordon Summers. [Back to top]
 

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DELIVERIES / MEAT ORDERS / DELIVERING TOI FARMS / ORDERS / DEEP FREEZES / COLD ROOM

deliveries / varying meat orders / Chibbett Post delivery / 40 ribs of beef to Bernard Waley-Cohen at Honeymead at Christmas, 10 or 12 ribs per bullock, special journey / routes / delivering up to farms / advance orders / deep freezes upsetting rhythm / 'smalls' / putting in extra cold room. [Back to top]
 

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SMALL DELIVERIES / MRS SKINNER / PEOPLE'S HOMES / BAWDENS / MARY HOOPER

smallest deliveries, Mrs Skinner, Exford (mother of postman's wife, Mrs Ward) / people's homes / Alan and Joan Bawden at Newlands Farm, Exford - Joan having baby, daughter now Joan Lerwill, lives above Combe Martin / Mary Hooper, post lady at Withypool, PO coat, rolled own cigarettes. [Back to top]
 

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DELIVERIES TO PUBS / ORDERS FROM ESTATES / COL CLAYTON / HANGING BEEF / PEPPER POT

deliveries to pubs, White Horse ands Crown Exford, Royal Oak Winsford, Carnarvon Arms Dulverton, Rock Inn Bridgetown / CA bulk orders, Cdr Castons at Crown very particular / estates orders - Hollam and Pixton, Col Clayton from Northmoor wanted beef hung for three weeks / hanging beef / pepper pot. [Back to top]
 

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE ROUTINE / BUYING STOCK / MINCE PIES / DRIVING STOCK TO DULVERTON / SLAUGHTERHOUSE PROCESS

slaughterhouse routine / kill Sunday or Monday for the week / buying stock, Ruby Reds, South Devons, Angus, Hereford Cross / beef from Tom Pugsley, Joan Davies's father, lunch every third Sunday with family to pick out stock / eating mince pies [noises from wife in kitchen] / Dick Rawle driving stock from Dick Tuckers, Stone Farm Exford, to Dulverton, breaking ironmongers' (Germans) window / slaughtering process. [Back to top]
 

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE PROCESS / HANGING BULLOCK / COLD ROOM

slaughtering process / Harold Griffiths main slaughterman / Cash captive bolt / shot, throat cut, bleeding / hanging bullock, 7-10 days in cold room / keeping cold room cold. [Back to top]
 

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SCHOOL HOLIDAYS IN SHOP / MARKET / RATIONING / ADDITIONAL FARE / SELLING FISH / ENCYCLOPAEDIA / VENISON / CHILDHOOL ERRANDS

starting work in butchers shop at 8 or 10, in school holidays / going to market / rationing / Victor Landgon (Winsford) rearing two pigs, one for him, one for Windsors [cooking noises off] / issued with coupons at [?] ration allocations - you were issued with meat which you didn't know, according to number of coupons submitted through Food Office, so if you arrived at Food Office once a week with 500-600 coupons that would be the quantity of meat you'd get back the following week, rationed at 8d a person / additional things like pig, rabbits, venison from farmers / also got fish from Milford Haven until end rationing (early 50s) to keep trade going / recognising fish by encyclopaedia, sold it for 25% more than what they had paid / venison pre-war / childhood errands. [Back to top]
 

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SHOP THEN AND NOW / CHICKEN / WASTE DISPOSAL / CRYSTAL LIME PIT / FISH FARM  / CUTS

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Difference in trade now [noises off] / chicken / innards / disposing of waste / big crystal lime pit (8ft deep, 6 ft wide) in field / some waste to fish farm at Exebridge, green waste washed down drain / cut themselves, but not drastic, stuck hand in pot like miniature picking tub to heal it. [Back to top]