Stratford-upon-Avon Society: 'Popplewell' tapes: Mabel Burton

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Interviews with Mabel Burton, 1907-1992 (nee Baker), recalling shops and other premises etc. in Union Street, Guild Street (including Shakespeare Court) , Summer Row in Maidenhead Road, the canal, the Bancroft, Waterside, Southern Lane, High Street, Sheep Street, Meer Street, Wood Street, Henley Street, Greenhill Street, Alcester Road, Great William Street; the Workhouse; Welcombe House; the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (and her later conversations with Richard Attenborough and Kenneth Cork); her work as barmaid in various Stratford public houses; gypsies and folk medicine