Bragg, Shirley. 1. Part one of interview about Pouch Cove.

• Main Author: Rubin, Dan
• Other Authors: Bragg, Shirley
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Subjects: Towns; Fishing; Work; Families; Marriage; Gruchy; Mr.; Meaden; Mrs.; Gould; Rennie; Waterman; A.H.; Bragg; Ronald; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/8688

Shirley Bragg describes growing up in Pouch Cove from her home. She discusses the fishery, working in St. John's and Pouch Cove; and her husband. 00:00 – introductions; 0:50 – garden party; playing game; saving money for collection at Sunday school; 4:27 – buying apples, candy, cakes for one cent; 5:00 – family’s involvement in fishery; 5:32 – father walking to St. John’s to get boat motor repaired; walking toenails off; 7:55 – people tougher then; making do without vehicle transportation; Gruchy’s car for emergencies; clergy’s car; 8:31 – fishery failing in 1937; berry picking instead; 8:52 – going into service in St. John’s; turning fifteen; leaving school; working with great aunt on Noseworthy’s farm; Farm Road; 10:26 – getting up at 5am; bringing fish up in covel; women splitting and salting fish while fishermen eat breakfast; 11:58 – doing housework; bringing water in covel from river; 13:07 – getting job in St. John’s from Mrs. Meaden; pay station; Rennie Gould’s pay station; 15:16 – working for A.H. Waterman’s; Bank of Commerce; house on Circular Road; Brazilian wife; 16:58 – wearing uniform; daily tasks; housework; entertaining soldiers from Fort Pepperell; 18:27 – cooking; 18:40 – life during wartime in St. John’s; covering car headlights; shields on flashlights; air raid on Thursday mornings; 19:56 – awareness of wartime attacks; fear; 21:11 – working two years; getting gull bladder infection; working hard; 21:50 – waxing floor with concrete block; 22:25 – wages; 22:55 – house next door with three maids, cook, nursemaid; location of house; 23:29 – returning to Pouch Cove; 24:01 – working for Gruchy family doing housework; 24:13 – family living on Sullivan’s Loop; 24:24 – relationship with husband Ronald Bragg.