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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 (continued ... page 3) |
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John: There’s also, cos people visited the Pentrich show I guess? |
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Betty: Yes, there’s a photograph there of the Pentrich show. |
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John: Yepp |
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Betty: Erm… |
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John: Oh my goodness. |
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Betty: …That was… that was a real event. |
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John: But that’s not the… the aeroplanes then that do the… |
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Betty: No No… that’s just on that… |
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John: Oh |
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Betty: But Pentrich show was… visited by people from a long way off they used to lay on special buses from Ripley and Belper to bring people in. There were magnificent fireworks displays, we even had the brass… Err… Black Dyke Band performing at Pentrich. |
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John: Really… Mmm… Mm |
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Betty: The posters that… |
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John: Picture of a donkey with Francis Finn sitting on it… look! |
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All: [Laugh] |
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Annie: The aeroplane there, is… we’re not entirely sure of the event but we think it was actually just a visit by a passing pilot. That was arranged by, who the tenants at Asherfields Farm at the time… and what’s interesting about that photograph is the size of the crowd in the field, you can kind of imagine the event, where this plane starts to come down and the people come from miles around to see it. Cos, obviously in 1930 when this happened… and it’s a biplane I think… isn’t it…? |
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John: Mmm yes, a biplane…yes. |
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Annie: …A plane coming down out of the sky would have been such an unusual event people wouldn’t be used to seeing them like we are now. They wouldn’t frequently pass over head so that you just look up and take no notice. It would have been a real event… and you can see from the faces of the people in the back of that photograph… there’s quite a lot of open mouthed staring there. |
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John: I guess the chap, with his back to us, in the foreground… looks as though he’s sort of tugging on the tail, is the pilot. He’s got this long coat on, which you always expect pilots to be wearing… don’t you… ? |
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Betty & Annie: You do…yes |
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John: …and no doubt a Biggles helmet as well. |
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All: [Laugh] |
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John: Oh, that’s brilliant! Now if people want to… to contribute. Have you got any other… |
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Betty: Oh yes… |
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John: Yeah…Go on. |
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Betty: …there are two more there. |
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John: …Let’s have a look…I love looking at old photos, it’s lovely isn’t it? |
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Betty: The one at the top is Ruth Atkinson… astride the pony. It says Amberley in fact it was Amberside not Amberley. Ruth’s parents came down from Westmorland to farm… and they started off at Coneygrey Farm and they became quite influential in the village. She married a man called Sterland, she became Ruth Sterland and she’s the mother of two of the members of the historical society… but they still have the farm in the village. |
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John: Lovely horse. |
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Betty: Beautiful horse…yes. |
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John: It sort of… it’s almost a Shire horse isn’t it? |
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Betty: Mmm |
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John: Beautiful |
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Annie: And the contrast with the photograph below it, which is the picture of the Pentrich colliery… which was there until nineteen forty…? |
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Betty: six |
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Annie: …Six…and that’s actually, really those two things would have been the lifestyle side by side in the village at that time. There were farms in the main street of the village and there were farms all around…but also if you turned your back on the farms and looked out towards Ripley you would be looking over a colliery landscape…and that was, really, it’s co-atmosphere of the history of the village at that time, the farming and the coal mining side by side. |
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John: So when is the Pentrich picture show going to be then? |
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Annie: Well it depends how long it takes us to scan, how many photographs. Were hoping for a really good response from your listeners to this and even one photograph, if they know who’s in it and they are prepared to lend it, would be fantastic. What we’d like them to do, is to write to us first… so that we know that they are coming. The address to write to is the Pentrich Historical Society, c/o The village Hall, Main Road, Pentrich… and if they write to that address and tell us who they are and where… where they would like us to ring or to write too. We’ll make an arrangement to get the photographs to make sure they don’t get lost… and then it should only take a few days from when you lend them to us, to when you get them back. We’ll send invitations out to anybody who contributes, to come to the picture show… perhaps towards the end of this year or maybe early next year, depending on how many we’ve got and how long it takes. |
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John: That’s lovely…So it’s the Pentrich Historical Society, or is it history society? |
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Betty & Annie: Historical |
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John: …Historical Society, c/o The Village Hall, Main Road, Pentrich. You can’t have a more sync address than that… can you really? |
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Annie: You can have a postcode if you like? |
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John: Oh go on then. |
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Annie: DE5 3RE |
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John: DE5 3RE |
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Annie: Yep |
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John: Excellent… so if anyone has got any photographs of Pentrich, especially from the 30’s & 40’s, or further back? |
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Annie & Betty: Yes |
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John: …from the 50’s? |
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Annie & Betty: Yes |
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John: …& you know…further back, lovely. We’d be very pleased to hear from you. Annie Delin & Betty Sneap thank you very much for coming in. Thank you. |
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Annie & Betty: Thank you. |
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