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No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Bill Price of Kington, England. In this interview Bill talks about the tavern in Kington, beer making, WWI, tough times in the 1920s and 1930s, his family who lived in Canada, old family lineages, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his birth, doctors, home remedies, farming, cooking, coal mining, transportation, and cider.
Bill Price T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Price, Bill
Playing Times
01:03:24
1997-03-24
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Ray Dawson in Kington, England. In this interview Ray talks about blacksmiths, taking animals to market, his rooster, and police.
Ray Dawson T2 [Tape Two]
Interviewee(s)
Dawson, Ray
Playing Times
00:31:48
1993-12-08
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This interview is with Bob Jenkins of Kington, England. The interview begins with a discussion of the history of the Baskerville name. Bob then goes on to tell about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his relationship with Kington. He then talks about Black Vaughan, and Kington's history with various literary figures. Jenkins goes on to talk about Richard de Brito and Saint Thomas Becket, Castle Wigmore and the Mortimer family, and the history of Kington. He then talks about Baskervilles and the type style created by John Baskerville. The interview with Bob Jenkins ends at 00:21:15. Following that are a few notes made by Dutch regarding Lord Byron, a book titled Primrose's Periodicals, and Aiodhwood Manor.
Bob Jenkins
Interviewee(s)
Jenkins, Bob
Playing Times
00:28:53
1993-12-08
No image availableRecording TitleOverview: This is an interview with Ray Dawson and a local fish seller in Kington, England. In this interview Ray talks about his dairy farm and cattle breeding. Following his interview is an interview with a fish seller in Kington who speaks about fish markets and the fish selling business in England.
Ray Dawson T1 [Tape One]
Interviewee(s)
Dawson, Ray
Playing Times
00:31:43
1983-03-00