2011_06_17 Bob Evered Clip 2

Clip 2 Duration 2min 32sec

My name is Bob Evered, I was born 20th November 1938. So my father – Walter John – always known as Jack, he worked as a painter and decorator on the estate all his adult life, or most of it, sometimes he would come home dinner times if he was working in – I quite often used to go out and see him where he was working, they might be - they used to decorate cottages from top to bottom when people moved out and fresh ones were coming in. I well remember him decorating the two arched houses at the top - on the top road, which are now pulled down. My father was taken away from Tyntesfield on secondment in around 1942 to help build this estate – camp as it was for the United States Army 74th Hospital, so he was away building that for a year with some other people from Tyntesfield as far as I know and he worked 12 hour days and I never seen him for a 12 month, after that it went back to normal, then of course when the army finished with it, people were coming back from the war, shortage of housing, people being bombed out in London and everywhere else, so a lot of these army camps were turned into - sort of housing estates for a temporary measure whilst they could be accommodated properly in years to come, so Tyntesfield had overspill from local families, and also people who came from London and away, mostly from London and away I would have thought to be honest with you, and it was a proper thriving community, it had a shop and a church, chapel, bus stop into Bristol, club, cinema, which showed films twice a week, of which I usually went, and I had lots of friends there. I’ve got a photograph here. So what have you got there? you’ve got Tyntesfield Park circa 1949 and Bob is actually on the bottom row, second in from the right, what were you then, about 11 then? 10 or 11 then I guess. You were a shorthouse weren’t you – long socks, and then the other photograph is Wraxall Home Guard number 4 platoon, number 7 battalion Somerset Light