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Part 2 of interview with Margaret Drane (nee Marsh). Margaret was born in Hempstead in 1935 and interviewed by Hazel Weedon in March 2006.

Copyright Essex Sound and Video Archive.

[1] Margaret Drane [MD] recalls having a smart taffeta dress whilst boarding at school in Bishop’s Stortford. People dressed smartly then, hats for church. Not allowed to wear makeup. Hid lipstick in pocket when going to the cinema, aged 15. Went a couple of times a week. Boarded from age 16. Two cinemas in Saffron Walden then. Told off by father for seeing ‘Fanny By Gaslight’. Left school aged 17. Looked after two boys at a guest house in Frinton then worked as a nursery nurse in Clacton and then Harlow; now Beckingham Palace. Then went to Great Ormond Street.

[2] Always wanted to work with children. Mother was a nanny. Attended a conference in London, saw Great Ormond Street Hospital, then applied to work there. Very hard work, looking after sick children on wards. Best way to learn.

[3] Talks about the wards and nursing staff. A cross chart system; had to do a procedure several times with supervision, then without. Started by giving injections, bathing a baby, giving bedpans. By third year, intravenous injections, assisting in theatres. Spent six months on the maternity ward and premature baby unit at Hammersmith Hospital. Did two sets of exams in third year; hospital finals in own hospital and general nursing RSCN at another hospital.

[4] Used surnames. Talks about matron, Miss Kirby; still in touch. 28 nurses started training, 24 finished and 21 were back for the 50 years reunion. Lasting friendships. Had fun. Learned structure and order. Talks about times of duties.

[5] Could get complimentary theatre tickets if finished at 5.30pm; saw nearly every show in London, including The Mousetrap in 1954. Lived in the nurses home for the first and second years. Could share a house after third year. Money was bad. Earned £5.00 a month when working at the Harlow nursery. Saved £3.00. Cycled around Harlow New Town on afternoons off. Kept in contact with parents by letter, or they would send money for her train fare home. Parents had telephone installed during second year at Great Ormond Street; had previously had to phone the post office to pass a message on. Recalls watching the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on TV in 1953.

[6] The nurses lounge at Great Ormond Street had one of the first colour televisions, for the children to watch the coronation. The furthest she travelled was to visit a cousin in Fife, by coach from Victoria Station. Once went with her father by the ‘Queen of Scots’ train, travelled home on ‘The Flying Scotsman’. A member of Radwinter Guides, remembers going to guide camp in Dorset. Camped in Norfolk and in the Lake District from boarding school guides and cadets. Didn’t go abroad until she was in her 40s. Most people left school and got jobs in Saffron Walden. Younger cousins and friend from Radwinter, Molly Walker, went to teacher training college. Courtships were going to the cinema, dances or socials together. Caused problems in the family by getting married on 21 December, near Christmas; chose as Hempstead didn't have a football match, Beautiful weather. Stayed for a weekend with a friend in Kent and saw ‘My Fair Lady’ at Drury Lane. Had later honeymoon in July in Jersey...

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Image: Postcard showing Hempstead high street, undated

Interview with Margaret Drane about Hempstead during the wars, March 2006 (SA 87/1/3/1) - Part 2

Nellie Halls interviewed by Jan Rennie. Nellie talks about living in Hempstead between the First World War and Second World War. The interview was recorded between 2003 and 2006.

Copyright Essex Sound and Video Archive. Recording note: Crackly, occasionally difficult to hear.

[00:00:00] Nellie Halls [NH] talks about getting married on Boxing Day. One bridesmaid, borrowed the dress, not very elaborate; in village hall. Had to make do. Not much to buy on coupons. No photos. Booked photographer at Saffron Walden, but he’d gone home. Colleague made the cake. Carried on working until her husband came out of the army. Wrote to her. Talks about farms and land girls. Remembers the coalman, the baker and the butcher, who came with a horse and truck from Saffron Walden. Got meat on Saturdays. Had two shops, shopped at the post office.

[00:05:00] Recalls wartime rations of butter and sugar, and ration cards. Comments that they were never really short of food. Mother made own cakes. Helped mother, a chapel cleaner, clean the storeroom. Mentions that where Pat Haylock lives was a dairy farm. NH took milk round to houses before school, sometimes in the evening; earned pocket money. Comments that everyone got on. Talks about a very strict school teacher, church. Comments that most girls went into domestic work but that some went to Engelman’s flower place at Saffron Walden.

[00:10:00] Talks about other people in the village, including one who moved to Ireland. Had a village policeman who lived in a boarded cottage at bottom of hill. Felt safe. Went gleaning in holidays, took sandwiches. Went to fields, made daisy chains. People left doors unlocked then. Mother was strict. Father older than mother.

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Image: Postcard showing Hempstead high street, undated

Interview with Nellie Halls about Hempstead between the wars (SA 87/1/4/1)

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Short radio documentary about William Harvey M.D. (1578-1657),   physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood.

The documentary was written and presented by Carl Huson for British Information Services, 1961.   

It mentions that Harvey is buried at the church in Hempstead, that he studied at Padua under Fabricus of Aquapendente, his theory of the circulation of the blood, that he was physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London and physician to King Charles I. It also mentions the restoration of the church in 1957 (the tercentenary of Harvey's death) funded by the Harveian Society.  

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Image: Postcard showing Hempstead high street, undated

'In Memory of a Great Doctor', 1961 (SA 34/1/1/1/1/1)

BBC Essex feature on an exhibition about Dick Turpin at Epping Forest Conservation Centre, featuring Paul Moxey and Lucy Longhurst. Recorded December 1987 and broadcast January 1988. 

The feature includes a brief account of Turpin's life from his birth in Hempstead to his execution at York, and popular romanticised ideas of him through the work of the Victorian novelist, Harrison Ainsworth.

Copyright BBC Essex. 

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Image: Postcard showing Hempstead high street, undated

BBC Essex feature on Dick Turpin exhibition, 1987 (SA 1/229/1)

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2020 is a year of looking through frames and borders to an outside world. Four Walls is a collaborative production from some of the artists of the Resonance Collective, highlighting the internal world of the COVID-19 lockdown from the viewpoint of electronic music. These pieces are created from isolation, but still represent our ability to connect and work together.
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