Reference WWA EP4 - Elizabeth Burgess
- Reference Number: DX-1043/23
- Date: Jul 2013
- Level: Item
- Extent: 1 item
- Format: CD-ROM
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Description: 0:26 Father's occupation as a sewage works manager and water engineer. Instrumental in the Clean Water Act which went through Parliament.
0:50 Discusses childhood home in Blakeley Green house. They had 2 maids, a washer woman and a gardener.
2:30 Training as an engineer and beginning employment as a researcher
3:20 Becoming a maths teacher
4:14 Discusses being one of the first women on the engineering course at university.
5:06 How Wolverhampton has changed: transport, communications, technologies
6:36 Social changes in Wolverhampton
7:40 The change in the experience of shopping
8:55 Discusses meeting her husband, getting married, leaving work to have her first child but being one of the first women at Wolverhampton Girls' High School able to return to teaching following maternity leave.
11:55 The impact of World War Two on Mrs Burgess' family and the nearby Pendeford Airport which played a large role building planes in the war effort
14:00 The impact of austerity and rationing on people's diets
15:50 Italian Prisoners of War used as agricultural labourers in Wolverhampton.
16:47 Reaction to the first immigrants in Wolverhampton and the relative diversity at the Wolverhampton Girls' High School.
18:57 First experience of striking during her time teaching at Wolverhampton Girls' High School.
20:20 Mrs Burgess' reaction to the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in Britain.
20:50 The reaction of the people of Wolverhampton to Margaret Thatcher and the change of political party preference in the city. - Access Status: Open
- Contact: Wolverhampton Archives, Wolverhampton Archives & Local Studies