Marilyn Airstone
Marilyn came to live with her grandmother during the Second World War. The recordings are her recollections of her life in Thame from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Category: Oral Histories
Maurice Barton
Memories of Maurice Barton covering Thame before WWII, shooting down a German bomber over Thame, being a prisoner of the Japanese and a fire in Long Crendon while he was a voluntary fireman.
Joy Campoli
Joy’s recollections from her time growing up in Thame, working for the BBC during the move to Broadcasting House in 1932, and her husband Alfredo.
Joyce Clarke
In 1936 Joyce came to live in Thame at No 1 Park Terrace.
Trevor Cook
Trevor was born in Benson and moved to Thame in 1933. He has many recollections from his youth living in Thame.
Mick Crowdy
Mick talks about growing up in Thame during and immediately after the Second World War.
Mabel Gillard
Mabel moved to Thame at the age of eight and a half. After leaving school at 14 she started work at Thame Park a couple of years later.
John Hussey
John talks about Thame during the Second World War and how the wool trade changed since the 1950s.
Jack Lazenby
Jack came to Thame in 1950 to work at Rycotewood College as a woodwork teacher. The recordings cover Jack’s early life in Wakefield, Yorkshire, his time at Loughborogh College as a student and Rycotewood College as a teacher.
Dr Andrew Markus
Andrew qualified as a Doctor in 1956 and was a Thame GP until his retirement in 1994. The recordings also cover his time as a Town Councillor.
