| Title: |
Ken Oxenham
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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: |
Ken Oxenham comes from a seafaring family from Lynmouth. Brought up on sailing ships, he has lived and breathed the sea most of his life. He was 20, and in the merchant navy, when his ship was torpedoed in the South Atlantic. They were five days at sea before being rescued. Back at Lynmouth, he ran pleasure trips in the harbour, until his boats were destroyed in the 1952 flood. He helped with the relief work afterwards, in charge of stores.
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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: |
Oxenham, Ken, 1922-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1922
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Devon, England; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Seaman
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| Age at speaking: |
79
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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: |
OHI0033906-37198
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