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Sepia-toned portrait of a man sitting on a chair holding a walking stick, with another man standing beside him outdoors.

Fred Woolstenholmes (standing) and Arthur Freeman (Kevin’s granddad) pose for photograph taken in Stone Cross Garden in 1920

Country Characters 1980

Country Characters interviews

Country Characters 1980

Interviewer Paul Melton for Fenprobe, the newspaper for the blind in East Cambridgeshire.

Copyright was given to Farmland Museum.

Blanche Looker, Soham,
Mr and Mrs Goulty Littleport,
Sennitt the bike racer from Wicken,
Roger Clarke and Mrs Ford, Soham.

Sepia-toned portrait of a man sitting on a chair holding a walking stick, with another man standing beside him outdoors.

Fred Woolstenholmes (standing) and Arthur Freeman (Kevin’s granddad) pose for photograph taken in Stone Cross Garden in 1920

Country Characters c.1980 – A.mp3 (MP3 38.7Mb)

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Country Characters c.1980 – B.mp3 (MP3 34.1Mb)

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Country Characters No27Tape B – A.mp3 (MP3 38.7Mb)

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Country Characters No27Tape B – B.mp3 (MP3 34.1Mb)

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A steam traction engine powers a Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies thresher in a field with eleven men and a child standing nearby.

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

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

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  • Photographs
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  • Oral History Archive

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Oral History Archive

Vine View, 125 Hemingford Road, Cambridge

64 York Street, Cambridge

28 Regent Street, Cambridge

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George Amory

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Jack Reeve

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Farmland Museum 1969-1992

Fenland Facts and Fancies

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George Green

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Frank Steel

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Len Burton

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BBC Radio Cambridgeshire “Village Voices of Haddenham”

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Fred and George Goulty

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Thulborn Brothers