| Title: |
Stan Curtis
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Somerset Record Office. Somerset Archive and Record Service.
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| Collection: |
Exmoor Oral History Archive Collection
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| Description: |
Stan Curtis went to school at Exton and then Simonsbath, where Mrs Walker, the teacher, kept her cigarettes and lighter up the leg of her drawers. When he left school he worked for Honeymead and then the Fortescue estate, driving horses. He retired 42 years later, having kept a diary for every year. He thinks the world of the Fortescues. His father was a shepherd with the estate; his grandfather brushed the paths before Lord and Lady Fortescue rode round.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1998 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Curtis, Stan, 1927-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1927
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Somerset, England; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Age at speaking: |
71
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| Document date: |
1998
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| Locations discussed: |
England; Europe; Somerset, England; United Kingdom
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
England; Europe; Exmoor (England)--Biography; Exmoor (England)--History; Moors (Wetlands)--England; Oral history; Somerset, England; United Kingdom
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0033876-37168
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