Audio clips of WW2 reminiscences of Headley villagers

Ted Brumwell (Fort Garry Horse) - We liked Headley 35secs
Joyce Stevens - Noisy tank movements 1:00
Sue Allden - Flooding 50secs
Ted Brumwell - The Holly Bush 25secs
John Ellis - Pouring water over soldiers 1:25
Kathy Presnail - German Bomber up the Thames 25secs
Dorothy Ellis - Southampton 2:05
Joyce Stevens - Evacuees 2:05
Sue Allden - Soldiers on Arford Common 55secs
John Ellis - Canadians swimming after geese 30secs
Ted Brumwell - Summer was on a Thursday 25secs
Dorothy Ellis - Running out of petrol 50secs
Joyce Stevens - The Church 1:00
Sue Allden - Bordon cinema 1:05
John Ellis - Canadians stealing his pigs 1:00
Dorothy Ellis - Portsmouth 2:00
Kathy Presnail - The biggest explosion 1:05
Dorothy Ellis - Chichester hospital 1:10
John Ellis - Canadians lassoing a horse 45secs
Ted Brumwell - It was a wonderful place 25secs

Notes on speakers:—

Ted Brumwell, veteran of the Fort Garry Horse Regiment talking to Jo Smith in the ‘Holly Bush’
Joyce Stevens lived in the middle of Headley and was a schoolteacher in Wrecclesham during WW2
Sue Allden was a schoolgirl in WW2 and lived at the bottom of Arford Common
John Ellis, owner of Headley Mill
Dorothy Ellis, wife of John Ellis, who drove ambulances during WW2
Kathy Presnail worked in London during WW2



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