| Title: |
Norah Mackney
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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: |
Norah Mackney's parents were contortionists, often away on tour, and she had an unhappy childhood. She met her husband Tom when working in a drapery business. In 1951 they moved to Dulverton, to take over Thornes, renaming it Mackneys. They were there 27 years, stocking everything from a pin to a pram.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2001 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Mackney, Norah, 1912-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1912
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Hampshire, England; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Age at speaking: |
89
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| Document date: |
2001
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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: |
OHI0033898-37190
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