Oral history project: Jean Abelson

Description

Interview with Mrs Jean Abelson, born 1919, recalling Old Town and Avoncroft where she had lived since 1945; Mrs. Eleanor Melville Avonbank; other residents of Old Town, (including Kenneth Beech); Hall's Croft; private schools in the 1950s (including The Croft); nannies, nurses and servants whom she others employed in the town; shopping in Stratford elsewhere; dinner parties at Avoncroft; her involvement with the Conservative Association; her chairmanship of the Stratford Society; her views on the recent developments in the town.