Title
Hungarton
Subject
Hungarton
Description
Kenneth Barnett describes community life in Hungarton during the 1930s and 1940s. Also, he recalls the Quenby Hall.
Creator
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Source
EMOHA
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
1986
Contributor
Photograph courtesy of the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester 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
Original Format
Interviewer: When you first came, in ’36, it was still a village...
Mr Barnett: Oh yes, yes, very much a village, more so than any village we’d been in before. Everybody worked together, the church and the chapel, they all worked together. Of course, up at Quenby Hall, Sir Harold and Lady Nutting lived there, and Lady Nutting was very keen on the village life and liked to see everyone working together, and she was a great Red Cross woman. The village hall was built about 1929, I think, somewhere near there. Everybody worked together all the time. The chairman of the parish council, he was head of the chapel, Edwin Bates, and the old vicar, Mr Patterson, I don’t think he lasted, I think he went to Norfolk and retired about ’38.
Mr Barnett: Oh yes, yes, very much a village, more so than any village we’d been in before. Everybody worked together, the church and the chapel, they all worked together. Of course, up at Quenby Hall, Sir Harold and Lady Nutting lived there, and Lady Nutting was very keen on the village life and liked to see everyone working together, and she was a great Red Cross woman. The village hall was built about 1929, I think, somewhere near there. Everybody worked together all the time. The chairman of the parish council, he was head of the chapel, Edwin Bates, and the old vicar, Mr Patterson, I don’t think he lasted, I think he went to Norfolk and retired about ’38.
Duration
1 min 3 sec
Interviewer
N. Van Heender
Interviewee
Kenneth Barnett
Location
Hungarton, Leicestershire
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