| Title: |
Paddy Kennedy
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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: |
Paddy Kennedy was nine when his father, who was a groom, moved to Dulverton with his employer. When he left school he went to work at Pixton as a carpenter, one of 17 or 18 estate workers. The estate had its own sawmills and a smithy at Bury, where the blacksmith made him blow the bellows to hurry things along.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Kennedy, Paddy, 1924-2001
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1924
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| Speaker place of birth: |
England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Carpenter; Maintenance worker
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| Age at speaking: |
75
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| Document date: |
1999
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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: |
OHI0033890-37182
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