| Description | Interview by Charles Parker and John Fletcher, son of Harold Fletcher, of Mrs Emily Mary Turner (EMT) and Harold Fletcher describing their background and life in Wednesbury.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.15 Description of track: [silent start to tape]
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 2.40 Description of track: CP and EMT discuss her local dialect; EMT describes annual Sunday School prize giving
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 1.27 Description of track: talks about the local churches in the parish; return to children's games and EMT sings a rhyme
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 5.23 Description of track: talks about education and literacy; EMT attended a Church School
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.09 Description of track: describes Wednesbury as a separate entity to Birmingham and compares the dialects
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 2.19 Description of track: [John Fletcher] reads out the will of William Bolton, blacksmith of Wednesbury, 3 May 1894
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 2.59 Description of track: Harold Fletcher (b.1895) talks about the Irish community in Wednesbury; CP encourages him to talk about his own childhood and songs that were sung
Total duration: (min/sec): 16.12 |