Oral history project: Jessie Hall

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Interview with Jessie Hall (nee ), born 1925; recalls visiting Stratford as a child, from Birmingham; her work in the Land Army at Clifford Chambers, and then as an employee of Colonel Rees-Mogg at Clifford Manor; shopping at J.C. Smith's; theatre-going during World War II; village life in Ilmington after her marriage in 1946; her work as a member of 'front-of-house' staff in the 1960s her views of 'modern' productions; 'Granny' Hall's carrier business from Ilmington to Stratford; coal wharves on the Bancroft; Hephzibah Harris's patchwork; Miss C. Jackson of Cherry Street her memories; church-going at Clifford Chambers the Rees-Mogg family.