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EDNA
CLATWORTHY
Born:
Landkey, Devon,
1928
Lived:
Heasley Mill,
Withypool
Recording made: 2001
Length of recording:
1 hr 48 mins
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Unlike her grandmother, who was happier out in the garden with a scythe, Edna Clatworthy is a homemaker. She likes housework, decorating and painting, and the familiarity of a place she knows. She was brought up on a farm at Heasley Mill, an only child but with several cousins around. After she left school she worked at home. She was getting older, going out more, to dances and Young Farmers' events. She met her husband, Fred, at a gymkhana and moved to his family farm at Withypool.
She has been in Withypool nearly 50 years. She is a church warden and treasurer of the village hall committee, where they run whist drives and the fete and flower show and count the cutlery. They were going to paint the kitchen the week after she was recorded. There are so many holiday homes in the village now, she says, that it is difficult to get things done.