Oral history project: Peter Silver

Description

Further interviews with Peter Silver (see also DR730/12,DR730/32 DR730/34), recalling in detail life in Meer Street in the 1920s and 1930s (including sanitary arrangements, local shops, ice-cream salesmen); Rother Street Fountain; former Convalescent Home in Rother Street; shops and public houses in Wood Street (especially 'Joe Mitchell's pork shop bakery'); the old Hippodrome in Wood Street (and a 'blackshirts' meeting staged there); shops in Cook's Alley Henley Street; the Brewery Club in Guild Street; other buildings and business premises in Guild Street; the town band; John Roberts, builder; Warburton's scrapyard; houses and businesses in Birmingham Road (including the Falstaff Public House); the Brewery buildings in Brewery Street; Kendall's works; the cooperage in Birmingham Road; working life at Kendall's and Flowers' Brewery.