| Title: |
Stanley Hooper
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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: |
Stanley Hooper is the oldest of three. Several months premature when he was born, he confounded everyone by surviving. His father died when he was still a boy. He picked whortleberries so he could buy boots for school and looked after the garden at home. He has always liked gardening and once won 14 prizes at Porlock Flower Show, seven of them firsts.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2000 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hooper, Stanley, 1910-2002
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1910
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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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| Speaker occupation: |
Construction worker; Farmer
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| Age at speaking: |
90
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| Document date: |
2000
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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: |
OHI0033886-37178
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