Architecture
Erskine, Ralph. (1 of 14). National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives
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Type
sound
Duration
0:31:39
Shelf mark
C467/08
Subjects
Architecture
Recording date
1997-01-23 to 1997-01-24
Recording locations
Interviewee's home, Drottningholm, Sweden.
Interviewees
Erskine, Ralph, 1914-2005 (speaker, male)
Interviewers
Lever, Jill, (speaker, female)
Abstract
Part 1: Ralph Erskine's [RE] paternal grandparents' origins in Burghead, Moray (grandfather Presbyterian minister), and move to Bow, London; maternal grandfather (family name Gough) secretary of Thames Conservancy; RE's family life at home in Mill Hill then Mickleham, Surrey; RE's attendance at Quaker school, [Saffron Walden], and meeting with his future wife, Ruth, there; Fabian Socialism of RE's parents; previously at state school in Hendon; comparisons between the two schools.
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