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Mr S: Oh yes, I know in the early days, sometimes he, most mornings he used to get up about four or five o’clock and go down to the shed which was where the Garden Centre, is the Garden Centre still there? (Mrs S: No, it’s where the houses are.). Q: Cause they were quite strong I suppose? Any large quantities that were to be moved kind of thing. Mr S: Well all sorts of heavy haulage work, it was timber haulage, and cutting down trees, and hauling them about sort of thing. My father drove a traction engine, and his brother was mate on there with him, and Mr Barber he was a lorry driver, all for the same firm. Q: Everybody there worked for Mr Mens did they? And Mr Barber, lives out the back here now, he was in the, his family were in the middle one. Then my father’s brother moved into the third one of the group of three. They were built specially for Mr Mens there, who was the owner of the Witham Cartage Company at that time, and my father was employed by him, and he was the first one to move into the new houses, a group of three built there, you see, red brick cottages, we moved into there. Olivers Cottages were built then, they were new then? Mr S: Yes, it was 1919 when I first moved there. Q: Am I allowed to ask how long ago that was? And I don’t remember living there because I was only about two years old when I moved from there, and we moved up to the corner of Maldon Road and Maltings Lane, that group of houses called Olivers Cottages, and lived there for the next four years, that’s the earliest memories of got of the … Mr S: I think at one time didn’t one of the doctors live there, who had the house converted, the cottage, I think that’s what really happened, but anyhow it doesn’t exist now as a cottage. Q: That was between the bookshop and, it’s probably where the lady who owns the bookshop she herself lives … Mrs S: That was a Mrs Holloway, she lived there, they were all elderly people, and I always remember these Miss Graves, thinking about Charlie Graves. Mr S: In a little cottage opposite the doctor’s surgery, there’s a little cottage there where Borno the chemist is, next door to that there was a cottage that is now incorporated in one or the other, I’m not sure which, but it doesn’t exist now as an independent cottage, that was a cottage between what is now Borno chemist, and also there’s a little shop next door that is now a bookshop, was a watchmaker called Graves. Q: You were born in Witham? (Mr S: Yes.) Where were you born?
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Later explanatory additions by JG or the transcriber are in square brackets after a word shows that its interpretation is not certain. shows words that are not clear enough to interpret and so have had to be omitted. To listen to the recording, please contact them at or 033301 32500. The original recording of this interview is held at the Essex Sound and Video Archive. They were interviewed on 11 October 1991 when they lived at 11 Elizabeth Avenue, Witham.įor more information about them, see Skingsley, Leslie and Joan, in the People category. The birth year of his wife, Mrs Joan Skingsley, was not noted.