Audio tape of Phyllis Willmott's oral history interviews with Michael Young about his early life, 1929-33, 2001
Scope and Contents
Side 1: Michael Young's time at Dartington Hall School; outdoor work on the estate, particularly woodland management; buying and repairing motorbikes with a fellow pupil; Margaret Barr, the dance teacher; organising and running businesses to sell eggs from the poultry farm on Totnes market and vegetables from the garden to the school kitchen; staying during the summer holidays with Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst in the United States and the friendship... with her son, Michael Straight, engineered by Dorothy; the journey on a White Star Line transatlantic liner; arriving in New York; Dorothy Elmhirst's servants in the United States; her apartment on Park Avenue and her country estate at Old Westbury, New York; travelling between the two in the family's private train carriage; a trip to the Whitney family estate in the Adirondack mountains; the personal significance of his relationship with Dorothy Elmhirst; staying with the Roosevelts at the White House; tennis lessons at Forest Hills; failing and then narrowly passing his Matriculation; his asthma; and the Elmhirsts helping him find a job at PEP (Political and Economic Planning) and funding his studies at LSE and the Bar. Duration: 46:12 minutes. Recorded on 11 January 2001.
Side 2 is unused.
Dates
- Creation: 2001
Conditions Governing Access
Available online.
Extent
1 cassette(s) (1 audio tape)
Language of Materials
English
External Documents
Finding aid date
2020-06-08 14:19:54+00:00
Processing Information
Digitised as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project by the Norfolk Record Office in partnership with the British Library
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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