Cooper, David

Made:
2002-11-14 in Interviewee's home

child - resident of railway orphanage Woking (Southern Region); background to need for admittance; impressions of the home; house mothers; dormitories, numbers; morning bell, tasks, dining room, food; passtimes; social attitudes; character building activities; railway societies; funding by railway workers; George Evershed, secretary superintendent, Christmas activites; college; training for work sponsored by railway; home reunions; decline of railway sponsored institutions; d.o.b. 1954-12-13, Greenwich, London; Woking; Germany; Weymouth; Bournemouth; Waterloo; Southern Region; Rank Xerox; Airfix; St Christophers;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2002-158
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 2.8346 x 3.1496 x .315 in.; 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum