Interviews with Local People
Mrs.
Anne Moore.
We
interviewed Mrs. Anne Moore as part of our Stour Links project. Mrs. Moore is
part of the family that owns C. C. Moores, the feed merchant and country shop in
Stalbridge. She also runs a small collectibles shop in the high street.
When
Mrs. Moore came to school she brought her grandson, the thirteenth generation of
Moores to live in Stalbridge.
Mrs.
Moore has recently become a school governor.
Moores
started in the eighteenth century. Delivery used to be done by horse and cart.
She told us about a worker who stopped off at every pub in the village when he
did his deliveries. The horse remembered the route each day, so that when he
came out of the final pub and collapsed into his cart in a drunken state, the
horse would walk back to the yard!
We recorded the interview on the school’s new digital video camera.
John
Foster-Pegg.
John
Foster-Pegg is a Solicitor who works and lives in Stalbridge and a School
governor of Stalbridge Primary School.
He
has had many different cases, The one he found the most interesting is when a
man, who lived in London, had done something wrong, and a policeman went to
investigate. The man got scared and drove over the policeman, who died. They had
to go to court and the man who drove over the policeman, was going to be the
last man to get hung, but in the end he wasn’t hung, but had a life sentence
in prison instead!
In
Stalbridge the most of the cases he has to deal with are Family problems and
Property.
He
was a member of the town council for many years and has thoroughly enjoyed it.
He said he felt very strongly about people
living in the community giving something back to it.
Mr
Chris. Wiles.
During
the interview with Mr Wiles, a builder and a school governor, we found out that
his building firm was carried down from Mr Wiles’ great great grandfather.
Mr Wiles is not to sure whether his firm will continue in his family.
He enjoys his work but it is sometimes quite hard getting planning
regulations and doing the paper work.
Mr
Wiles originally planned to be an engineer, but when he went for the interview,
and they offered him the job, he looked around and found the working area too
cramped, so he went for outside work instead, by joining the family firm.
As
a school governor Mr Wiles is great, he looks after the buildings in the school,
and he sorts out the computers when thing go wrong!