Title
Bardon Village
Subject
Bardon Village
Description
Francis Harris talks about the Everard family's influence over village life in Bardon during the 1920s.
Creator
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Source
EMOHA
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1987
Contributor
Photograph courtesy of Record Office for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. To use seek permission from http://www.recordoffice.org.uk/
Rights
You may use this item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Format
.mp3
Type
Oral History
Duration
1min 12sec
Transcription
Bernard Everard he was, what we say, the managing director of the quarry…you could almost say he was the squire of the village. He controlled what people did in the village because a large percentage of the people worked at the quarry, and the wives– they had a great amount of domestic help in those days- and they worked in the house, it was a very big house. Bernard Everard was at one time High Sheriff, he involved himself in the church very much, he had a great say in the church, and they also built the church, built Bardon church, the Everards, and built the vicarage. Mrs Everard was very much involved in hunting and involved herself in a lot of charitable things. She was very keenly interested in the Women’s Institute and also the Nursing Association, this was of course when the district nurse was engaged in the village…and Mrs Everard did a lot of charitable work associated with the Nursing Association by buying houses, and made a lot of money available to further this.
Interviewer
L. Noble
Interviewee
Francis Harris
Location
Bardon, Leicestershire
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