| Title: |
Tom Richards
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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: |
Tom Richards is a modest man. He didn't speak until he was seven. His mother died when he was three. His father was a Lynmouth boatman and shipping agent for P & A Campbell, who ran paddle steamers. Of an evening the children would lie on the floor, imagining pictures in the firelight, while he told them stories about the overland launch of the lifeboat, when he'd been second coxswain. In the daytime they'd tout for custom among the visitors to fill the guest houses, their father's among them.
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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: |
Richards, Tom, 1915-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1915
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Café owner; Shipyard employee; Transportation worker
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| Age at speaking: |
86
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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: |
OHI0033917-37209
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