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Two young girls watch as a woman in glasses hands a flower to the girl in the middle who holds a basket filled with flowers.

Mabel Demaine buying a button hole flowers from Jenny Sulman, Alison Crofts at Methodist Fair

Mabel Demaine

Mabel Demaine interviews

Mabel Demaine (1908-1980), Interviewer Kevin Delanoy

Seven children of varying ages pose in a hayfield, with some seated on the cut straw and others standing behind them.

The Freeman and Palmer children in hay field in 1916; Mabel Demaine (nee Freeman) is on the right hand side.

Five people in uniforms and hats sitting on a horse-drawn wagon decorated with foliage, with a canvas tent structure behind.

Mabel and her brother Arthur on Hospital Wagon 1927

Mabel Demaine.mp3 (MP3 28Mb)

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Mabel Demaine reading her book “Recollections of a Country Woman”.

Mabel Demaine 2 – side A.mp3 (MP3 25.6Mb)

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Mabel Demaine 2 – side B.mp3 (MP3 15Mb)

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The next 11 audio clips are 1 to 12 minutes long.

Mabel Demaine 1.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 2.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 3.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 4.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 6.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 7.mp3

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mabel-Demaine-7.mp3

Mabel Demaine 8.mp3

https://cms.capturingcambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mabel-Demaine-8.mp3

Mabel Demaine 9.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 10.mp3

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Mabel Demaine 11.mp3

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Two young girls watch as a woman in glasses hands a flower to the girl in the middle who holds a basket filled with flowers.

Mabel Demaine buying a button hole flowers from Jenny Sulman, Alison Crofts at Methodist Fair

All audio and photographic material Copyright © 1970-2016 Lorna Delanoy

See also Reflections of a Country Woman

 

Sources

  • Oral / Unpublished Sources
  • Photographs
  • Sound Recording

Projects

  • Haddenham
  • Oral History Archive

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