Your Place and Mine - Audio Archive. | |
|  | | Market day on Dawley high street |
|  | 'Your Place and Mine' delves into Shropshire's different communities.
Michael Cleere focuses on the town of Dawley, meeting the people that make Dawley what it is today. |
| | | | | Amongst a few of the characters that Michael shares a pint with, is language fan Angus Duncan and Billy Churms, who's a bit of an expert on the Dawley dialect.
Billy's worked in Dawley most of his life, firstly as a miner at the Kemberton pit and then at The Eveready factory... Both now closed.
Meanwhile, Ken Thomas, has been involved with amateur boxing in Dawley for many years. In fact, for Ken, boxing is in the blood. | | | | Staying in the pub, Michael meets Pat and John. Pat's a Dawley girl, born and bred who knows what it's like to look after your family first. Michael learns that every ring holds a story and even gets a bit of a song. | |
| | Michael meets a few folk Dawley born and bred. Most look pretty unfavourably towards their large neighbour, Telford town centre.
Life, work and unemployment in Dawley. Mining and the Eveready factory.
Michael bumps into Kathleen again, along with her friends Jenny and Tracy. He finds out that Dawley is a friendly place and market day's the day to be in town.
He meets Pete, who came to Dawley as part of the Birmingham overspill. | | | Rita introduces Michael to a few people at the local diner.
He bumps in to Len a local taxi driver, recovering from a heart attack at the tender age of 34... chats to Elsie, originally from Ironbridge about nursing and a few years on the buses.
Vic and Margaret talk about bringing up children... holidays in Rhyl... and the secret to a great relationship. | |
| | First stop the Christian centre, where a group of dedicated volunteers know how to make a mean cup of tea and a bacon butty. Michael meets Nancy and Pam, Dawley born and bred.
Margret chats about marrying into Dawley, while Linda talk about bringing up kids in the town.
On to the card shop - Susan chats about a few of the more bizarre greeting cards on the market... dealing with change... and Christmas on the Horseshoe Pass in North Wales. | |
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