Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 2

Title

Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 2

Genre

Biography; Serial

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:59:21

Description

Reading of second part (of 2) of the story of charismatic gardener Fred Bettesworth from 1901 until his death in 1905. Male reader not identified. Probably extracted from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, by George Stuart (pseudonym George Bourne).

Contributors

George Bourne

Keywords

Deaths; Weather; Travel; Hospitals; Funerals; Country life; Domestic life; Gardening; Radio book readings; Soldiers; Victorian period; Dialects; Surrey; Biographies; Birds; Illness; Gardens; Bronchitis; Communities; Gardeners; Rural communities; Colloquial language; Neighbourhoods; Robins; Crimean War (1853-1856); Fred Bettesworth; George Stuart

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