Barbara Turner
Barbara Turner was born in Martin Road, Burwell in 1942, one of seven children.
‘My father would take his dockey to work with him, he’d usually have half a loaf of bread with the corner cut out to put his butter in, then a lump of cheese with it … He’d have a bottle of cold tea, no milk or sugar. We had no water in the house, and when he came home he’d go into the yard and pick some sand and grit up, and shake it in the bottle to clean it.’
Part 1 of 2
| Time | Topics described |
| 00:00:00 | Family at Martin’s Rd and Orchards Way |
| 00:00:45 | Kept pigs |
| 00:01:10 | Mother was midwife, Also laid out the dead. |
| 00:01:30 | St Mary’s school |
| 00:01:50 | Playground games |
| 00:02:10 | Games. Chalk pit. |
| 00:02:20 | Methodist chapel , now flats. |
| 00:02:35 | Seaside |
| 00:02:45 | Bread delivered by horse and cart. |
| 00:03:20 | “Summerlight” van delivered oil, pots and pans etc. |
| 00:03:40 | Mother cooked on a primus stove. |
| 00:03:50 | Meat delivered by van. |
| 00:04:00 | Played in the meadows. |
| 00:04:10 | Watched motorbike scrambles. |
| 00:04:20 | Slaughterhouse in Hythe Lane. Blood ran in the road. |
| 00:04:30 | Allotment by the cemetery.Haunted house. |
| 00:05:05 | Carter Rd built |
| 00:05:10 | 1959 Electricity |
| 00:05:20 | 1962 Bathroom added. Married |
| 00:05:30 | Father drove a steamroller with a hut in which he would sleep overnight. Gritting roads in winter. |
| 00:06:00 | Bicycle only |
| 00:06:15 | Deisel roller 1953 Cuts time taken to reach destination of roadworks. |
| 00:06:40 | Remembers Claydons sweetshop |
| 00:06:56 | Remembers windmill turning in distance 1953 |
| 00:07:40 | Schooldays Mrs Carter- strict. |
| 00:08:10 | Learned to cook, sew and knit |
| 00:08:25 | Still sewing. |
| 00:08:34 | Had “Barbaras” shop near Co-op 11 years |
| 00:08:55 | Daughter now has shop and Barbara does alterations still |
| 00:09:30 | Seaside by coach with Sunday School if attendance goodduring the year. |
| 00:09:50 | Yarmouth and Hunstanton |
| 00:10:05 | Gets lost in Bury. |
| 00:10:20 | Christmas. Tree decorated Christmas Eve |
| 00:10:40 | Bed by 9 every night. |
| 00:10:50 | No TV. Only after she was married. |
| 00:11:20 | Family Christmases. |
| 00:11:30 | Afternoon Christmas party at school. Food taken from home. |
| 00:11:50 | Her and her friends took empty bottles back to The Bushel |
| 00:12:20 | Money used to go to cinema in Newmarket. |
| 00:12:35 | Westerns and boys were the attraction! |
| 00:12:50 | Dances at the Memorial Hall |
| 00:13:15 | Home entertainment |
| 00:13:30 | Dressing up |
| 00:13:40 | Bicycle-did not ride. |
| 00:14:00 | Father no car, used to bicycle everywhere. |
| 00:14:20 | Deisel roller meant he had a lie-in. |
| 00:14:50 | Mended all the roads around. |
| 00:15:10 | Food |
| 00:15:30 | Black kitchen range fired with coal.On all day |
| 00:16:00 | Veg garden, allotment and flowers grown and sold. |
| 00:16:20 | Fruit orchard |
| 00:16:30 | Vegetables grown |
| 00:16:40 | Chickens kept, eggs and cheese eaten |
| 00:17:00 | Had a Cockerel but father named it and then could not kill |
| 00:17:20 | Cockerel for Xmas . Sometimes rabbit stew. Father trapped rabbits. |
| 00:17:55 | Ate very well. Jams and pickles. |
Part 2
| Time | Topics described |
| 00:00:10 | Dockey Outside tap |
| 00:00:45 | Bucket and chuck it outside loo. |
| 00:01:05 | Newspaper squares Orange papers from Christmas oranges a luxury. |
| 00:01:27 | Izal |
| 00:01:48 | Coal in stocking at Christmas. |
| 00:02:10 | Oil lamps and smoking, Cards |
| 00:02:35 | Family tradition naughtiest gets the coal in their stocking |