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BBC Radio Derby Interview Tuesday 7th August 2001 Please note that this interview was “live on-air” & therefore unedited. Transcribed by Helen Wilson THE PEOPLE
- John Holmes - BBC Radio Derby presenter
- Annie Delin - society member
- Betty Sneap - society member & local historian
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THE INTERVIEW John: Now I’ve got a very fine picture in front of me… of a vicar… on a powered bicycle. Something I always envied when I was a child… I used to think what a clever idea to stick a… a motorbike engine on the back of a… of a bicycle. Then I had these sort of fantasies of the thing sort of getting carried away with you and you sort of charging off into the sunset on one of these bikes. Now the reason I have this picture in front of me… it’s all to do with … Snapshots of Pentrich. I hope you don’t mind me calling them snapshots... do you? |
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Annie & Betty: Not at all. |
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John: That’s all right? … Annie Delin is with me and also Betty Sneap. They are involved in this exhibition, in fact in collecting all this historical data together. Lets just, just turn to the vicar first of all, cos this is the first photograph you have handed me. Tell me more about... the Reverend Boston... wasn’t it? |
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Betty: Yes the Reverend Boston was our vicar in Pentrich for very many years. He was a very… well loved vicar. He was a little bit eccentric. He believed that… he always carried a bag in case anybody gave him anything and he never wore any socks. It was well known that he was a man without socks… But he was presented with this motorized bicycle by the parishioners because the parish was such a large area to cover and they thought it might make life easier for him. But… he wasn’t quite happy with it and he decided that he would sell it very quickly and he bought himself a motorbike. |
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John: Oh, so he was a vicar on a motorbike? |
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Betty: So he was a vicar on a motorbike. But he had quite a nasty accident. The vicarage lawn slopes down from the vicarage towards the drive… and there is a drop of about 5 or 6 feet, at the end of this wall… |
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John: Oh no! |
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Betty: …And he started the motorbike, and it took off with him straight across the lawn and he fell off the end of the wall, at the end… and the lady who lived in the cottage that you can see there, well that was Holly Cottage… And Miss Barlow, was one of the ladies that I spoke to in the past, and she said “Well it served him right, he should have been happy with what he got in the first place.” [Laughter]… and that was the Reverend Boston and the story of his bike. |
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John: How did you come by this picture Annie? |
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Annie: Well we’ve been collecting photographs for Pentrich Historical Society photographic archive. We’ve actually publicised through the church and various other contacts that we are looking for photographs of old Pentrich, and places, and people, and occasions connected with the village… and Monica Pickering who lives in Swanwick, and who is the daughter of Reverend Boston, came to us with some of her collection, which included this photograph. We’ve actually had a good response from the people we’ve gone to face to face and said have you got any photographs or any memories? But what we’re doing now is trying to publicize more widely that if people have any pictures that they have taken, say if they have been to Pentrich for a picnic in the 1950’s or the 1940’s… We’re really interested in seeing any photograph and being able to collect it into our database so that we can use them in the future. |
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John: So this is a trawl outside the village really isn’t it? |
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Annie: Yes definitely. |
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John: So if you went to Pentrich and you took photographs, especially in the 40’s and the 50’s and you’ve got some good ones, you’d be very interested in seeing them? And then what happens to them? |
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Annie: Well the way that we deal with them, is that we ask people first of all not to send them straight to us without warning us, because they could get lost in the post and we’d rather… either know that they are coming or come and collect them because some of them are very precious obviously. We then put them into a scanner on a computer, which is very like a photocopier… but instead of it copying onto paper, it copies straight into the computer and we get an image which we can store on a… on a CD or into the computer hard disk… and we then give people back their originals, so they don’t loose their family memories; they can have them back within a week. When we’ve got them all together, we put whatever information people can give us about the date, and he people that were in it, and the occasion or whatever… and then eventually what we’re going to do is to have a Pentrich Picture Show; which we invite all the contributors to come and see them projected up onto a screen… and it’s lovely seeing them at a huge size so that you can look at the detail of the houses and you can see what people were wearing. And for us, as villagers, it fills in big gaps in our knowledge of our own history. I think for the people who contribute it’s really fantastic to see… these big projected photographs all lit up so that you can see all the details in them. |
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John: And a wonderful social occasion… You see, if I had that picture of the Reverend Boston blown up, I could see that he didn’t have socks on, you see but I can’t see them they’re that small… can I Betty? |
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Betty: No [Laughs]… you can’t. |
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John: So what, I’m looking, you’ve got… are these all computer, they’re all off the computer are they? |
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Betty: These have already been scanned in Yes. |
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John: …but the quality’s excellent… |
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Betty: The quality’s excellent, yes. |
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