| Title: |
Ben Norman
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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: |
Ben Norman comes from a family of master mariners. His eyesight wasn't good enough to be a sailor himself, so he went into the building business. He founded the museum over 20 years ago and has published several books about Watchet. He was brought up on stories of ships and as a boy used to sail across to Wales with his father to pick up coal for the paper mills. Eventually sailing ships died out but the old sailors lingered on and he spent many hours talking to them.
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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: |
Norman, Ben, 1918-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1918
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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
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| Age at speaking: |
81
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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: |
OHI0033904-37196
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