Hungarton

DE3736 Box 51 Hungarton A8063.tif

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.

Duration

1 min 3 sec

Interviewer

N. Van Heender

Interviewee

Kenneth Barnett

Location

Hungarton, Leicestershire

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