Title
Barkby
Subject
Barkby
Description
Sidney Kirk describes farming life and cricket in Barkby during the 1920s and 1930s.
Creator
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Source
EMOHA
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1986
Contributor
Photograph courtesy of Barkby United Cricket Club. To use seek permission from http://www.barkbyunited.play-cricket.com/
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 17sec
Transcription
The Glebe Farm at Barkby…we worked there for a number of years and we came up to Spring Grange Farm in 1942. We had some land, 100 acres, what belonged to the church, but there was no farm house. We had to cycle up to the farm in those days and we used to milk a small herd of twenty cows… We were very keen on cricket and the sport and we played for the local village, Barkby, which I enjoyed very much. It meant a Saturday afternoon off sort of thing from work. We were quite a cricketing family really, the Kirks were, going back right to my grandfather… They used to say that they could get a cricket team out of the Kirks and the Pigs, they were two local farming families… We have a cricket supper and one or two celebrities used to come and speak. We had Dickie Bird, he came, one of the test umpires isn’t he… very well-known village cricket Barkby was, has been for years.
Interviewer
S. Kirrane
Interviewee
Sidney Kirk
Location
Barkby, Leicestershire
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